Head of Engineering
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
05-03-2025
Job Specifications
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Job Description
The Head of Engineering will be responsible for shaping and executing the technical vision of the business while leading the engineering function. You will work closely with the CTIO, product teams, and senior leadership to drive innovation, improve development processes, and scale engineering operations to support the company’s aggressive growth targets.
This role is critical in delivering the product roadmap, ensuring technical excellence, and building a high-performance engineering culture that aligns with the company’s commercial objectives.
PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Leadership & Strategy: Lead the engineering team and define the technical strategy to support the company’s vision and business growth. Translate business goals into engineering solutions.
Team Building: Scale and mentor a high-performing engineering team, creating an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and accountability.
Product Development: Oversee the end-to-end development process, from concept to delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and to the highest quality.
Technology Stack: Ensure that the technical architecture and technology stack are scalable, robust, and aligned with business requirements.
Collaboration: Partner with product, operations, and commercial teams to align engineering efforts with broader business objectives.
Process Improvement: Continuously enhance engineering processes, leveraging industry best practices such as Agile and DevOps methodologies.
Budget & Resources: Manage the engineering budget, including resourcing, tooling, and technology investment.
Risk Management: Identify and manage potential risks, ensuring business continuity and robust security practices are in place.
Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a key technical advisor to senior management and PE investors, providing insight into technological trends and the role of innovation in driving business success.
Vendor Management: Work with third-party vendors and external partners to integrate solutions and support business goals.
Qualifications
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
Proven experience (8+ years) in a senior engineering leadership role, ideally in a PE-backed or fast-growth environment.
Demonstrated success in scaling engineering teams and delivering complex technology products at pace.
Expertise in software engineering, cloud architecture, and modern development frameworks.
Strong track record in leading Agile and DevOps practices, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.
Experience in budget management and strategic decision-making in line with commercial goals.
Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams.
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, including investors.
Experience with [specific technology stack/languages relevant to the business] is a plus.
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.
About the Company
Who we are Fastmarkets is the most trusted cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA) in the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts and market analyses give our customers a strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide immersive experiences to network, trade and discuss the critical issues of the day. Fastmarkets combines the commodity intelligence of these familiar names: Metal Bulletin • American Metal Market • Scrap ... Know more
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