Engineering Leader Digital+

Philips Magyarország; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A health technology company in the UK is seeking an Engineering Leader to shape digital experiences across a popular app. You will manage a distributed engineering team, ensure delivery excellence, and drive AI-enabled engineering initiatives. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in managing engineering teams, a strong grasp of mobile development, and familiarity with tools like Jira and GitHub. This role requires onsite presence for collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing or leading engineering teams, ideally in consumer digital products.
• Strong understanding of mobile development and operational excellence.
• Experience managing distributed or remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower a distributed engineering organisation.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Design for synergy.
• Establish and monitor KPIs and delivery metrics.

Skills

Engineering team management

Mobile development principles

CI/CD processes

Stakeholder management

AI and automation

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Firebase

Job description

Overview

Engineering Leader Digital+ — We’re looking for an Engineering Leader to shape how we design, build, and deliver digital experiences across Pregnancy+, the world’s most trusted pregnancy app. You’ll report directly to the Business Leader for Worry-Free Parenting, playing a pivotal role in aligning engineering, product, and design functions to accelerate value delivery for millions of users worldwide. You’ll lead a distributed engineering organisation, primarily based in India, while working closely with leadership and product teams in Europe. Your focus will be on creating the right environment for high-quality, high-velocity development, defining how we operate today, envisioning how we need to operate tomorrow, and driving that transformation through process, tooling, and measurement. You’ll champion AI-enabled engineering, ensuring we leverage modern technologies to dramatically increase efficiency and consistency across releases.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and empower a distributed engineering organisation
• Lead an engineering organisation primarily based in India, ensuring delivery excellence and strong alignment with leadership in Europe.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Management and Design teams to maintain synergy across disciplines, reducing time-to-market and increasing value-to-market.
• Evaluate and evolve engineering processes, tools, and practices to improve speed, quality, and scalability.
• Establish and monitor clear KPIs and delivery metrics that measure performance, predictability, and quality.
• Drive organisational change through influence and structure, embedding best practices and accountability across teams.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to foster engagement, alignment, and consistent delivery outcomes.
• Identify and implement modern tools and frameworks that enhance delivery pipelines, testing, and release management.
• Champion the integration of AI and automation to optimise workflows and increase developer productivity.
• Foster a culture of transparency, ownership, and continuous improvement across the engineering organisation.

What We’re Looking For

• At least 5 years of experience managing or leading engineering teams, ideally within consumer digital or mobile products.
• Strong understanding of mobile development principles, architecture, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• Proven track record of leading engineering transformation and improving organisational efficiency.
• Experience managing distributed or remote teams, ideally across time zones.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a product-led organisation, collaborating closely with Product and Design to deliver user value.
• Ability to define and monitor KPIs that connect engineering outcomes to business results.
• Enthusiasm for AI-enabled engineering, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, GitHub, Firebase, and modern mobile CI/CD frameworks.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won\'t stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. Learn more about our business. Discover our rich and exciting history. Learn more about our purpose. If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.