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Our software pays 1 in 6 UK employees, supports over 12,000 schools, and is relied on by 91 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms.\nWe're a Great Place to Work® certified employer, recognised for our commitment to well-being, inclusion and development - and we're growing fast.\nRole Purpose\nThis is a hands-on leadership role combining technical direction, agile delivery ownership and people management for one autonomous team building and maintaining document capture, storage, workflow and retrieval capabilities embedded in our accountancy product suite. Approximately 40% delivery, 40% technical, 20% people.\nMain Responsibilities\nDelivery Management (40%)\nScope, sequence and deliver against quarterly OKRs, with commitments the team can actually meet and few surprises along the way\n\nOwn stakeholder communication on progress, risk and dependencies across Product, Compliance and leadership\n\nRaise release cadence and predictability - our direction of travel is a production deployment every sprint, moving towards on demand\n\nBalance workload and staffing across the team to keep delivery sustainable\n\nTechnical Leadership & Contribution (40%)\nOwn architecture and technical decisions for document ingestion, storage, retrieval and integration at scale\n\nSet and enforce security standards for sensitive client and financial data: encryption in transit and at rest, access control, retention and audit trail\n\nDrive engineering quality - automated testing, code review standards, CI/CD and observability - and hold the line on it under delivery pressure\n\nManage technical debt deliberately: a prioritised, funded plan rather than a backlog nobody reads\n\nAdopt AI tooling into the team’s engineering workflow responsibly, and measure whether it is genuinely helping\n\nPeople Management (20%)\nLine manage engineers: 1:1s, performance reviews, career development, and the difficult conversations when they are needed\n\nGrow senior engineers into technical leaders and delegate real accountability to them\n\nOwn team health and engagement - act on it rather than simply reporting it\n\nKey Relationships\nInternal: Document Management and Platform engineering teams, Accountancy Product Management, Compliance and Security, QA, DevOps. External: offshore engineering partners, Professional Services, Customer Support, third-party vendors. Leadership: Associate Director of Engineering, VP Engineering, Product leadership.\nSuccess in the First Twelve Months\nDelivery: predictable sprint outcomes, minimal carry-over, release cadence improved to the agreed target\n\nQuality: change failure rate and escaped defects trending down; no critical or high severity vulnerabilities carried in production\n\nTechnical health: agreed modernisation milestones delivered alongside roadmap commitments\n\nTeam: every engineer with a clear development plan, low unplanned attrition, and at least one named successor for key roles\n\n2. Qualifications & Experience\nTechnical Skills\nDepth in .NET and C# with ASP.NET Core Web APIs and distributed systems, plus working fluency in a modern UI framework (React, Angular, Vue or Blazor)\n\nProduction cloud experience with containers and Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines you have personally built or owned - Azure preferred, as our platform runs entirely on Azure, though strong AWS experience transfers well\n\nSound judgement across relational and non-relational data stores, and the reasoning to choose between them\n\nApplication security in practice: vulnerability management, threat modelling and dependency hygiene\n\nObservability that is actually used, and production support experience under real incident pressure - Datadog preferred, Application Insights also welcome\n\nExperience\nEvidence of shipping through a team: 6+ years in software engineering, plus either formal line management or sustained technical leadership of a delivery team\n\nTrack record delivering complex projects in an Agile environment, balancing technical excellence against delivery timelines\n\nExperience modernising established codebases without stopping delivery\n\nEffective working across distributed and offshore teams in different timezones\n\nDesirable\nDocument, content or records management systems, including OCR and search or indexing pipelines\n\nRegulated or audit-heavy domains - finance, legal, govtech - with SOC 2 or equivalent\n\nPlatform or shared-services engineering\n\nPractical AI integration work, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent tooling\n\nAdvanced Azure certification (or AWS equivalent)\n\n3. Competencies\nLeads several workstreams at pace without letting security or data-integrity discipline slip\n\nCommunicates and negotiates credibly across engineering, Product and Compliance, and upwards to leadership\n\nDecides with incomplete information, and revisits decisions when the evidence changes\n\nBalances technical excellence against delivery reality without defaulting to either\n\nSelf-starter who owns outcomes end to end and builds team culture deliberately\n\nWhy You’ll Love Working Here\nImpact: Your work will influence millions globally.\n\nGrowth: Continuous learning and career development opportunities.\n\nBelonging: A culture that celebrates diversity and empowers every individual.\n\nReady to Apply?\nClick Apply - we’re excited to learn about your unique perspective and experience. If you need adjustments during the process, let us know. We’re committed to making this opportunity accessible to everyone.\nWhat to expect from our hiring process\nOur process is designed to be fair, transparent and straightforward. Stages vary depending on the role - more senior positions may involve additional steps, and some areas include role-specific assessments such as a technical test or case study - but typically you can expect:\nApplication review - we assess your experience and potential\n\nInitial call - a short conversation to learn about you and share more about the role\n\nSkills assessment - tailored to the position, e.g. case study, coding challenge or portfolio review\n\nFinal interview - meet the team and explore how you'll make an IMPACT at IRIS\n\nWe'll always walk you through the specific stages at the start of the process so you can prepare with confidence.\nIf you need any adjustments or accommodations during the process, let us know, we’re committed to making this experience accessible for everyone.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6546,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["EdTech Platforms","Payroll Services","HR & Payroll Software","Accounting & Tax Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T10:11:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":21,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.606,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":55,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":160000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/iris-software-group-engineering-lead-document-management-east-coast-remote","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/iris-software-group-engineering-lead-document-management-east-coast-remote.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T15:53:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":24300,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":51452},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=51452"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Firis-software-group-engineering-lead-document-management-east-coast-remote"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Firis-software-group-engineering-lead-document-management-east-coast-remote"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Firis-software-group-engineering-lead-document-management-east-coast-remote"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/iris-software-group-engineering-lead-document-management-east-coast-remote\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Firis-software-group-engineering-lead-document-management-east-coast-remote"}]}