SLR Consulting
SLR Consulting
SLR Consulting is a global environmental consultancy helping organizations address complex sustainability challenges. Its specialists provide advisory support across areas such as strategic performance, sustainability reporting, project delivery, climate resilience, waste management, and responsible sourcing. The company works with sectors including the built environment, consumer goods, and energy, developing practical approaches that connect environmental responsibility with business and project outcomes.

VP of Software Engineering at SLR Consulting — London Hybrid

Lead engineering strategy, organization growth, and scalable technology platforms at SLR Consulting, a global environmental and sustainability consultancy. Oversee delivery, security, innovation, talent development, and technology operations.

Description

  • Set and deliver the long-term technical strategy and roadmap against company objectives
  • Work with business units, shared services, operations, finance, and other leaders to prioritize initiatives
  • Lead, mentor, and expand a diverse engineering organization spanning data, digital, and AI capabilities
  • Direct enterprise architecture, full-stack development, platform, infrastructure, DevOps, and data engineering teams
  • Deliver software systems that are scalable, secure, reliable, and consistently high quality
  • Establish strong practices for architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and security
  • Recruit, retain, and develop engineering professionals
  • Strengthen the engineering leadership pipeline and create structured career development frameworks
  • Promote inclusion, innovation, and ongoing learning across the engineering organization
  • Improve agile and lean delivery practices, engineering metrics, and delivery predictability
  • Assess emerging technologies such as cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and microservices
  • Manage technical risk, data privacy, security standards, and regulatory compliance
  • Oversee engineering budgets, suppliers, and infrastructure expenditure
  • Align engineering resources with project and initiative priorities
  • Advise business leaders and C-suite stakeholders on technical matters

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
  • At least 12 years of progressive experience in software engineering
  • Five to seven or more years in senior engineering leadership positions at director level or above
  • Experience leading engineering organizations in SaaS, consumer technology, fintech, or enterprise software is strongly preferred
  • Proven ability to deliver complex, high-scale products and platforms used by thousands of enterprise users
  • Servant-leadership approach with a record of building high-trust, high-performing engineering cultures
  • Advanced knowledge of modern software architecture, AWS, GCP, Azure, distributed systems, and DevOps
  • Experience managing engineering managers and directors
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Strategic judgment paired with disciplined execution and operational rigor
  • Use of engineering metrics and KPIs to support data-informed decisions
  • Experience integrating AI/ML or working with modern frontend and mobile technologies is a plus

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Employee benefits
  • Wellness programs
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Collaborative and supportive working environment

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