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About BoyleSports BoyleSports is Ireland’s largest independent bookmaker and a major player in the gambling industry, founded in 1982 by John Boyle. Headquartered in Dundalk, the company operates over 400 retail betting shops across Ireland and the UK alongside a growing digital business. Our focus is on winning in our core UK and Ireland markets, and we are investing heavily in our in-house technology platform to compete and lead on product across our core verticals – sportsbook, gaming and retail – and to become a customer favourite and innovator. BoyleSports Engineering is delivering two major transformation programmes in parallel. On the back end, we are migrating from a monolithic Oracle environment to a modern, event-driven architecture built on microservices (introducing Kafka, decomposing the monolith into transactional and archival components, and migrating to AWS). On the front end, we are unifying twelve fragmented applications into a single, responsive SPA/PWA built on an app-shell and micro-frontend model, migrating from .NET MVC to React, and adopting a headless CMS. Alongside this we are moving from manual to automated testing, and reshaping the organisation around a domain-driven model with full-stack, end-to-end ownership. Our work is organised around clear domain squads – sportsbook, trading, gaming, player account & compliance, payments, bonuses & promotions, retail & omni, and core platform – delivered by engineering teams based mainly in the Republic of Ireland and in our fast-growing technology hub in Serbia, with further colleagues and contractors across the UK, Northern Ireland, Manila and Gibraltar. Coordinating delivery across these domains, programmes and locations is exactly the challenge this role exists to solve. Role Purpose The Head of Engineering Delivery is a new, dedicated leadership role focused squarely on the delivery and coordination of work across our Engineering organisation. Technology at BoyleSports is around 213 people, of which Engineering is 127 – 84 developers and 41 QA – arranged into domain squads. Where our architecture and long-term technical direction are well served, the gap this role fills is the day-to-day orchestration of that Engineering organisation against the product roadmap. You will be the single point of accountability for turning the product roadmap and architectural direction into predictable, well-sequenced delivery. Working hand-in-hand with the Director of Product, our strong Tech Leads, the Solution Architect and the senior architecture leadership, you will plan and coordinate the work of our squads, remove cross-team dependencies and bottlenecks, and ensure that both new features and operational demands – hotfixes, incidents and support escalations – are handled without derailing the roadmap. This is a delivery and people-coordination role, not an architecture role. You will have enough technical depth to earn the respect of senior engineers and to make sound trade-off calls, but your core craft is delivery leadership: planning, agile execution, stakeholder alignment and getting high-quality software shipped. Key Responsibilities Delivery planning and coordination Roadmap to delivery. Translate the product roadmap and architectural direction into realistic, sequenced delivery plans with credible dates that account for proper agile process, build and testing to company standards. Cross-team orchestration. Coordinate the work of our domain squads and strong Tech Leads, owning cross-team dependencies, capacity planning and prioritisation so that the right things are worked on in the right order. Distributed delivery. Coordinate delivery across our Dundalk base and our Serbia technology hub, keeping teams in both locations aligned, well-utilised and productive as the Serbia hub continues to grow. Single source of truth. Drive disciplined use of Azure DevOps so that all work is tracea