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Harnham

Head of Engineering

Remote

Manchester, United kingdom

£ 130,000 /year

Full Time

10-02-2026

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Skills

TypeScript Incident Response CI/CD Monitoring react AWS .NET Spark Databricks

Job Specifications

Head of Engineering

£110,000 - £130,000

Remote

This is an opportunity to lead engineering for a cutting‑edge AI and data platform that is redefining how enterprise brands navigate both traditional and LLM‑driven search.

THE COMPANY

They are a global technology business building market‑leading search intelligence products used by major enterprise brands.

THE ROLE

As a Head of Engineering, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team with clear ownership, setting engineering and AI standards.

Specifically, you can expect to be involved in the following:

Own the execution of the engineering roadmap across all core products and drive architectural decisions for distributed data processing, ML pipelines and modern web systems.
Ensure systems scale to support large datasets and evolving GenAI workloads.
Champion engineering excellence including testing, observability, documentation and incident response whilst guiding teams on AI‑assisted and agentic coding practices.
Balance delivery speed, technical debt and long‑term stability in fast‑moving product areas.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Head of Engineering will have the following skills and experience:

Confidence operating across ML delivery, GenAI and distributed data.
Cloud experience - ideally AWS.
Understanding of Spark, Databricks or similar data technologies
Knowledge of modern web (TypeScript or React) and .NET
Strong grounding in CI/CD, containerisation and monitoring.

BENEFITS

The successful Head of Engineering will receive the following benefits:

Salary between £110,000 - £130,000 - depending on experience
Competitive bonus and benefits.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Majid Latif via the Apply link on this page.

About the Company

Harnham provides specialist Data and AI recruitment and staffing services, along with bespoke training solutions, across multiple industry verticals, operating in the UK, the USA and EU - contact us today to discuss your requirements: info@harnham.com Our recruitment and talent teams cover all aspects of the data and AI pipeline, from collection to consumption, across multiple data roles and functions. Whether you need full-time staff, contract talent, specialized training, Data-qualified graduates, or C-suite executives... Know more