VP Technology - Software Engineering

Job Description

VP Technology, Cirium

Reports to: CTO Data Services, dotted report to the Cirium MD

From: Office Location: Southampton and /or Sutton Greater London office.

To: Office Location: Southampton or Sutton Greater London office. Office presence in both each week.

About Cirium

At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium at the link below. https://www.cirium.com. Cirium is part of Data Services, which sits in the LexisNexis Risk Solutions division of the $multi bn Global FTSE100 RELX PLC.

About the Role

As the VP Technology you will drive the strategic direction of our Cirium technology teams. You will develop people and be responsible for leading the delivery of high quality and efficient software solutions that power data and analytics for customers. You will lead a team of over 150 comprised of FTE, contract and partner staff across core locations in the UK and India. Your leadership will be instrumental in shaping the future of our technology landscape. You teams will create and operate products and data solutions for customers, and systems that power the data creation, processing and management that sits at their heart.

Achieving success will see you:

• Create a clear vision of the future and ways of working that motivates, energizes and engages colleagues and teams
• Manage complexity and think strategically, balancing the present and future needs of the business
• Think enterprise wide, champion talent and embrace curiosity
• Be a partner to your Cirium leadership team, and Data Services technology leadership team colleagues
• Flexible and adaptable style - Instantly credible with technical staff and business leaders

If the following is true you will love to work in Cirium:

• Do you love technology? Are a technologist? Do you love innovating?
• Do you love engaging teams and developing people?
• Do you thrive on having a varied focus every day?
• Do you thrive in a matrix to deliver in Cirium and enterprise wide?
• Do you combine ambition and stretch goals with heaps of pragmatism?

About You

You’re a leader. You have experience leading organizations large and small. You are as comfortable leading a meeting as you are leading the organization through a major change program. You understand how to build relationships within Technology and across the business in order to clear the path for your teams to get work done.

You’re an engineer at heart. You love solving problems. Specifically, you thrive on breaking things down, seeing how they work, and then figuring the optimal way to put them back together again. You see most things as a system, whether that be technology, projects, teams, or organizations; and you know that systems can always be optimized.

You’re a team player. You’re not a “lone wolf”. You enjoy working on a team to deliver value and you’re just as comfortable in the role of team lead as you are being a supporting player. You have experience performing well in direct teams and matrix teams. 

You’re passionate about Engineering and Technology. You are passionate about the craft of Engineering. You understand what it means to be part of a Product Development team and what it means to deliver value. You have significant experience delivering high-quality, scalable, resilient and secure software products to customers. 

You’re passionate about developing and supporting high performing teams. You understand that engaged, productive, empowered teams are the backbone of any high performing organization and you thrive on building and supporting teams to do what they love and love what they do. You know how set strategic objectives that are aligned with business goals and how to empower your teams to achieve those objectives.

Key Result Areas of the role

• Engineering acceleration – drive engineering team effectiveness and productivity acceleration in our global engineering hubs in the UK and India. Singular global ways of working across the technology groups.
• Deliver platform and solution developments – that customers love and can rely on. For data fabric systems that run Cirium data acquisition, creation and processing; and the customer surfaces that deliver data, insight and workflow through user interfaces, API and cloud databases.
• Technology estate improvement - effective operational control improvements in cloud cost management driving a like-for-like reduction; Information security position of vulnerability count and speed of resolution. Lead rationalisation to reduce technical and product debt, bring disparate engineering fabric and pipelines together. Bring technical strength and rigor to decisions.
• Drive Continued Transformation - To a platform-based business by aligning developments against a core architectural town plan of singular global technology components and common platform.
• Cirium and Data Services – aligned delivery that actively contributes to reuse and convergence for Data Services and the LNRS division.
• People - Relationship driven with a passion for staff development, diversity, and inclusion. Operating in a matrix structure. Own, drive and champion the engineering values and culture. Lead staff training and skills development.
• Flexible and adaptable style - Instantly credible with technical staff and business leaders. Show infectious enthusiasm and expertise in software engineering. Situational in approach to relationships with stakeholders and team, and coaching of team members and able to get to result fast, while developing staff. Able to use high intellectual agility that fits the varied nature of the role, and situations each day.

Women in technology

LexisNexis Risk is very supportive of women in Technolog, Currently 27% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:

•          Mentoring scheme for women in technology

•          Women’s network forum

•          Women in Technology Employee Resource Group (ERG)

•          LexisNexis Risk Solutions proudly support the tech talent charter

Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

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