Head of Engineering

This role carries end-to-end ownership of engineering standards, platform direction, DevSecOps maturity, and production resilience.

You will define what "production-ready" means across the organisation and embed accountability between build and run.

We want to move quickly at the experimentation stage. But once a capability becomes operationally critical, it must meet clear standards of reliability, security, observability and recovery.

• You will design the operating model that makes that possible.
• You will influence architecture, structure and capability development.
• You will strengthen code quality governance.
• You will elevate automation and release confidence.
• You will reduce operational fragility through structural improvement - not firefighting.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Led engineering or platform transformation in complex, high-availability environments.
• Owned systems where downtime had real commercial consequences.
• Embedded DevSecOps and automation at scale.
• Introduced measurable reliability standards (SLIs, SLOs, structured incident learning).
• Raised engineering quality and governance maturity.

We are seeking a senior engineering leader to shape our evolution as our Head of Engineering, Platform & Resilience. If you are energised by building durable systems - and by raising the technical bar across teams - this role could be a great fit.

Frontline operates one of the UK's most complex distribution and forecasting networks. Our systems underpin national retail operations, large-scale data flows, and commercially critical decision-making.

We are modernising our technology estate - strengthening cloud foundations, embedding DevSecOps, elevating engineering standards, and building a more resilient platform capable of supporting the next phase of growth.

This is an opportunity to shape the engineering backbone of a national-scale business in a senior, hands-on engineering leadership role, where you will still be close to the technology.