VP of Software Engineering Europe

About the client:

Our client is a large international technology organisation with a strong presence across Europe. The business is known for operating at scale, serving demanding markets, and investing in the continuous development of its technology capabilities. As part of its ongoing growth and evolution, the company is looking to appoint a VP of Software Engineering, Europe who will play a key role in leading a sizeable regional engineering function through change, maturity building, and further expansion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a large, geographically distributed software engineering organisation across Europe.
• Drive transformation and change initiatives across the engineering function, including organisational design, leadership effectiveness, delivery improvement, and operating model evolution.
• Define and execute the engineering strategy for the region, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term company objectives.
• Build stronger engineering standards, improve execution quality, and create greater consistency across teams and locations.
• Develop, coach, and strengthen the engineering leadership layer, including senior managers and directors.
• Partner closely with senior stakeholders across technology, product, operations, and business functions.
• Lead the organisation through periods of scale, integration, and continuous improvement.
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, quality, and delivery excellence.
• Oversee workforce planning, budgeting, prioritisation, and resource allocation across the regional engineering organisation.
• Ensure the function operates with strong governance, sound risk awareness, and high leadership discipline.

Essential Qualifications:

• Significant experience leading large software engineering teams across multiple countries or locations.
• Proven background in transformation, change management, and organisational evolution within engineering-led environments.
• Strong track record of managing through complexity, scale, and multi-layer leadership structures.
• Experience partnering directly with senior executives and influencing decisions at leadership level.
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, delivery models, team effectiveness, and software development excellence.
• Ability to connect engineering priorities with broader commercial and organisational goals.
• Experience in a large-scale, international technology environment.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Fluent English, Polish and the ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, international setting.

Candidate Profile:

We are looking for a leader with the stature, judgement, and resilience to manage a large regional engineering organisation in a dynamic environment. This person should bring a strong combination of strategic thinking, operational rigour, and people leadership.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience leading engineering teams across multiple locations and knows how to create alignment, clarity, and momentum across distributed structures. They have successfully led teams during moments of transformation — whether related to growth, restructuring, integration, leadership change, or a broader shift in engineering maturity and ways of working.

This role requires someone who can balance long-term vision with day-to-day execution, while building credibility with senior stakeholders and strengthening the performance of the wider organisation. A background in large technology-driven companies, digital businesses, SaaS, fintech, enterprise software, or similarly complex environments will be highly relevant.

Job offer:

• Opportunity to join a major international technology player with significant scale and market presence
• Senior leadership role with real influence over engineering direction, organisational development, and transformation
• Responsibility for a large European engineering