Director of Engineering

How You’ll Support our Mission

ESO is transforming healthcare and public safety through integrated product experiences that our Engineering teams create, nurture and evolve.  As the Director across our Shared Applications, you will be responsible for timely delivery of value to our customers by growing the capability of our existing engineering teams. ESO Shared Applications are those used by customers across the Fire, EMS, Hospital and State verticals, such as Scheduling, Personnel Management and Activities.    

ESO’s infrastructure runs primarily in Azure where IaaS, PaaS and Server-less technologies are employed.  You should be familiar with modern DevOps pipelines, event-driven architectures and cloud technologies that support scalable, distributed systems.  High throughput data engineering pipelines and auto scaling services supporting analytical reporting capabilities are core to our ecosystem as well.    

Technical aptitude is clearly important for this position but above all else, we seek leaders who can truly develop high-performing teams.  You are expected to lead from the front, with clear vision, direction and communication skills that enable our engineers to do their best work in an environment where teamwork shines. 

This role will be based in our Belfast office and you will report to SVP of Engineering.  

You can expect to:

• Build high-performing teams by hiring and retaining A+ talent, ensuring teams deliver against excellent KPIs and meet delivery targets. 
• Ensure the team understands the “why”, motivate them, make sure they are free from impediments and cultivate a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. 
• Coach, mentor and inspire team leaders to become more effective leaders through 1:1s, objectives setting and growth conversations. 
• Communicate clearly with relevant stakeholders such as ELT, SLT, product leaders and other engineers regarding the goals and progress of the Shared Apps teams. 
• Participate in budgeting exercises for proposing strategic technology investments and staffing. 
• Define and own the vision and technical roadmap for the Shared Apps teams, to support the ability to deliver value to customers quicker 
• Upholding the high standards of ESO’s Engineering teams in terms of quality, velocity, skills and uptime. 
• Support the capability growth of the wider Engineering organisation as part of its core Senior Leadership team. 

Who You Are, Some of the things required to be successful in the role: 

• 8+ years of experience building, leading and inspiring high-performing Engineering teams 
• A track record of adapting delivery strategies and architectures to increase deployment tempo, reduce cycle times and improve product quality metrics within a SaaS platform 
• Experience with streaming and batch data engineering architectures 
• Fluency in domain-driven design, microservice architectures and cloud-native recipes for building scalable, maintainable, and observable systems 
• Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) 
• Familiarity with modern DevOps and release management practices 
• Ability to inspire and foster an environment of collaborative, creative problem solving 
• Excellent interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence 

Who You Are, it's a plus if you have: 

• Experience in Healthcare / Public Safety sectors
• Experience with Azure / AWS
• Experience with Snowflake and embedded analytics solutions 

Benefits & Perks! You will have fantastic benefits at ESO including but not limited to;

• Life insurance (4 x base salary) 
• Income protection insurance and critical illness cover
• A generous pension contribution 
• Private medical insurance including optical and dental 
• A health cash plan 
• Modern City Centre office and a flexible hybrid working policy  
• Annual health and wellness allowance + cycle-to-work scheme  
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave and pay 
• Enhanced short and long-term sick pay 
• Great holiday entitlement which increases year on year until you reach 5 years of service! 

About ESO

ESO is a fast-paced, growing data, technology and research company passionate about improving community health and safety through the power of data. We pioneer innovative, user-friendly software to meet the changing needs of today’s EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. We’re small enough to be nimble and fun, but big enough to be a great place to work. We serve thousands of customers out of our offices across the US, Canada and Northern Ireland. 

Are you ready to Make a Difference? 

ESO is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We invite you to consider opportunities at ESO regardless of your gender; gender identity; gender reassignment; age; religious or similar philosophical belief; race; national origin; political opinion; sexual orientation; disability; marital or civil partnership status or other non-merit factor.

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