Engineering Director – Marketing Technology

Role Overview

Lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions, driving technical excellence, fostering a culture of innovation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.

What You Will Do

Lead engineering teams, oversee timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritization, mentor and support team members, evaluate and enhance engineering processes, collaborate with business partners, enforce technology standards, and implement robust testing practices.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires strong engineering leadership across enterprise Marketing Technology, data, APIs, and integrations, combined with a strong understanding of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and the broader Marketing Technology ecosystem.

Requirements

• Strong engineering and people leadership experience building, transforming, and operating enterprise technology platforms within large-scale, complex, and regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of Marketing Technology architecture and capabilities, including campaign management, marketing automation, client communications, audience management, and personalisation.
• Strong experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud or comparable enterprise Marketing Technology platforms, including integration with CRM, customer data, and wider digital ecosystems.
• Strong engineering knowledge across APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, data integration, and event-driven architectures, with the ability to provide credible technical leadership across complex engineering teams.
• Experience integrating Marketing Technology with customer and prospect data, consent, and preferences, and multi-channel communication capabilities, including email and SMS.
• Proven experience shaping platform strategy and engineering roadmaps, and driving modernisation, simplification, automation, engineering standards, and operational resilience across complex technology estates.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate Marketing strategy into technology priorities and shape adoption of emerging capabilities, including AI-enabled marketing, journey orchestration, and advanced personalisation.

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