Director of Engineering

Salary: HG 20 £99,289 - £124,111, negotiable depending on experience

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Cardiff, UK 

Hybrid working: 2 days in office every 2 weeks

About the IB

The International Baccalaureate provides world-class educational services to over 6,000 schools across 160 countries. A career with the IB is not just a job; it’s an opportunity to work with an innovative world leader in education services where we empower our employees to thrive and make a difference.

About the job

The Director of Product Engineering is a key leadership position responsible for defining and owning IB’s product engineering operating model across the Digital & Data Office (DDO) and helping drive sustained transformation from a project-centric, vendor-dependent delivery model to a product-led, AI-enabled engineering organisation. They oversee a team of approximately 100 engineers and delivery managers.

This is a hands-on transformation leadership role, requiring active engagement with engineering leaders, product partners, and executive stakeholders to drive measurable and sustainable change across IB’s digital ecosystem. 

Operating within a complex, mission-driven, multi-region environment, the role balances long-term organisational capability with near-term delivery outcomes. The role has end-to-end accountability for how digital products are engineered at scale, including engineering organisational design, delivery flow, capability development, and the effective use of AI within software development practices.