About IRIS
IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, trusted by 100,000+ businesses, schools and accountancy firms to keep their operations running. Our software pays 1 in 6 UK employees, supports over 12,000 schools, and is relied on by 91 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms.

IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, trusted by 100,000+ businesses, schools and accountancy firms to keep their operations running. Our software pays 1 in 6 UK employees, supports over 12,000 schools, and is relied on by 91 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms. We're a Great Place to Work® certified employer, recognised for our commitment to well-being, inclusion and development - and we're growing fast.

Role Purpose
This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical direction, agile delivery ownership and people management for one autonomous team building and maintaining document capture, storage, workflow and retrieval capabilities embedded in our accountancy product suite. Approximately 40% delivery, 40% technical, 20% people.

Main Responsibilities
Delivery Management (40%)

Scope, sequence and deliver against quarterly OKRs, with commitments the team can actually meet and few surprises along the way

Own stakeholder communication on progress, risk and dependencies across Product, Compliance and leadership

Raise release cadence and predictability - our direction of travel is a production deployment every sprint, moving towards on demand

Balance workload and staffing across the team to keep delivery sustainable

Technical Leadership & Contribution (40%)

Own architecture and technical decisions for document ingestion, storage, retrieval and integration at scale

Set and enforce security standards for sensitive client and financial data: encryption in transit and at rest, access control, retention and audit trail

Drive engineering quality - automated testing, code review standards, CI/CD and observability - and hold the line on it under delivery pressure

Manage technical debt deliberately:



a prioritised, funded plan rather than a backlog nobody reads

Adopt AI tooling into the team’s engineering workflow responsibly, and measure whether it is genuinely helping

People Management (20%)

Line manage engineers: 1:1s, performance reviews, career development, and the difficult conversations when they are needed

Grow senior engineers into technical leaders and delegate real accountability to them

Own team health and engagement - act on it rather than simply reporting it

Key Relationships
Internal: Document Management and Platform engineering teams, Accountancy Product Management, Compliance and Security, QA, DevOps. External: offshore engineering partners, Professional Services, Customer Support, third-party vendors. Leadership: Associate Director of Engineering, VP Engineering, Product leadership.

Success in the First Twelve Months

Delivery: predictable sprint outcomes, minimal carry-over, release cadence improved to the agreed target

Quality: change failure rate and escaped defects trending down; no critical or high severity vulnerabilities carried in production

Technical health: agreed modernisation milestones delivered alongside roadmap commitments

Team: every engineer with a clear development plan, low unplanned attrition, and at least one named successor for key roles

Qualifications & Experience

Technical Skills

Depth in .NET and C# with ASP.NET Core Web APIs and distributed systems, plus working fluency in a modern UI framework (React, Angular, Vue or Blazor)

Production cloud experience with containers and Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines you have personally built or owned - Azure preferred,



as our platform runs entirely on Azure, though strong AWS experience transfers well

Sound judgement across relational and non-relational data stores, and the reasoning to choose between them

Application security in practice: vulnerability management, threat modelling and dependency hygiene

Observability that is actually used, and production support experience under real incident pressure - Datadog preferred, Application Insights also welcome

Experience

Evidence of shipping through a team: 6+ years in software engineering, plus either formal line management or sustained technical leadership of a delivery team

Track record delivering complex projects in an Agile workplace, balancing technical excellence against delivery timelines

Experience modernising established codebases without stopping delivery

Effective working across distributed and offshore teams in different timezones

Desirable

Document, content or records management systems, including OCR and search or indexing pipelines

Regulated or audit-heavy domains - finance, legal, govtech - with SOC 2 or equivalent

Platform or shared-services engineering

Practical AI integration work, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent tooling

Advanced Azure certification (or AWS equivalent)

Competencies

Leads several workstreams at pace without letting security or data-integrity discipline slip

Communicates and negotiates credibly across engineering, Product and Compliance, and upwards to leadership

Decides with incomplete information, and revisits decisions when the evidence changes

Balances technical excellence against delivery reality without defaulting to either

Self-starter who owns outcomes end to end and builds team culture deliberately

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Impact: Your work will influence millions globally.

Growth: Continuous learning and career development opportunities.

Belonging: A culture that celebrates diversity and empowers every individual.

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📌 Engineering Lead - Document Management (East Coast, Remote) (Ontario)
🏢 IRIS Software Group
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