About this role
Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 per year
Requirements
- Engineering background combined with strong practical programming and software development skills.
- Comfortable writing, debugging and reviewing code, and able to contribute directly to development.
- Proven experience taking software or technical products through launch and into customer use.
- Strong sales and commercial capability, including demonstrating solutions, building customer relationships and winning business.
- Able to translate complex technical features into clear customer benefits and a compelling commercial proposition.
- Experience setting technical direction and leading engineers or software developers.
- Proactive and decisive, with the drive to take ownership and move products forward.
- Experience with engineering software, industrial technology or other complex technical products is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Remain hands-on with programming, code reviews, architecture and technical problem-solving.
- Take engineering software products through development, testing and commercial launch.
- Set the technology strategy and product roadmap, prioritising work around customer needs and commercial opportunities.
- Lead and develop the software engineering team, improving delivery quality and speed.
- Work directly with customers to understand requirements, demonstrate products and communicate their value.
- Drive technical sales activity, contribute to proposals and help convert opportunities into revenue.
- Shape product packaging, pricing and licensing or subscription models.
- Take responsibility for product performance, customer adoption and ongoing improvement.
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We are a growing, privately owned engineering business offering a Technical Director role based in Scotland with hybrid working. The role combines practical software development, technical leadership and product commercialisation, with the opportunity to influence our growth and take products approaching launch towards commercial success. The salary range is £70,000–£80,000, plus share ownership, bonus, pension and 28 days holiday. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.
last updated 44 week of 2026