Head of Engineering - Airlines

At Globant, we are working to make the world a better place, one step at a time. We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.

We seek a Head of Engineering , who shares our passion for innovation and change. This role is critical to helping our business partners evolve and adapt to consumers' personalized expectations in this new technological era.

What will help you succeed:

• Proven experience leading, coaching, and developing senior engineers and technical leaders (e.g., Tribe Technical Leads) to build organizational capability and successor pipelines.
• Strong ability to act as a trusted technical advisor to product, delivery, and programme leadership, integrating technical strategy with business outcomes.
• Demonstrated skill in building relationships and aligning architecture/standards across diverse cross-enterprise groups, such as Principal Architects, Solution Architects, and Enterprise Architects.
• Track record of defining, maintaining, and governing multi-year platform target-state architectures and roadmaps across multi-team or multi-tribe organizations.
• Experience resolving cross-team technical dependencies, establishing ownership for shared components, and managing systemic platform trade-offs.
• Proven ability to establish and maintain a platform-wide technical debt register, securing dedicated capacity for ongoing platform remediation and technical renewal.
• Hands-on experience defining, versioning, and enforcing organizational engineering standards, code health expectations, and quality gates.
• Experience leading or running formal technical governance processes, including preparing review materials and documenting Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Experience defining and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for system health, latency, error rates, and reliability regressions.
• Proven track record of monitoring, governing, and optimizing infrastructure consumption costs relative to system throughput and value delivered.

This job is to be filled in London, UK #LI-Hybrid . We require this person to be onsite 5 days a week, with 2 of those days at client site.

Create with us digital products that people love. We will bring businesses and consumers together through AI technology and creativity, driving digital transformation to impact the world positively.

We may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process. Globant is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Globant is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.