Director of Engineering - Performance & Insights

Location: UK or Hungary - Hybrid, preferred 2 days per week in Basingstoke or London / Hungary, Budapest

About the Role

Performance & Insight is the part of HawkEye that engineers data-driven digital products built by small sport-focused squads that move at a pace only agentic development makes possible.

As Director of Engineering, you are responsible for building the organisation that makes Hawk-Eye's Performance & Insight products easy to build, scale, maintain.

Your mission is to build a lean organisation with AI at the heart of it, capable of scaling through technology. Your organisation addresses the needs of top-tier sport clients - clubs, leagues, federations - seeking access to data and insights to unlock the next level of performance.

You will lead and manage a ~50 people strong organisation, including web/mobile/data/cloud engineering. You will aim to scale the organisation and productivity with AI delegation patterns wherever possible.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Management

• Build and lead a high-calibre Product & Engineering function with strong technical credibility and operational judgement.

• Hire, develop, and align engineering leaders and specialists across sports and disciplines within P&I

• Foster a culture of accountability, clarity, calm execution, and continuous improvement.

• Act as a senior internal leader who can bring structure to complexity without becoming bureaucratic.

• Live by and advocate Hawk-Eye’s values: Be Owners, Be Brave, Be Inclusive.

Engineering Standards and Shared Ways of Working

• Create practical standards to enable strong reliability, platform quality, operational readiness, and shared data governance across the whole of Hawk-Eye’s engineering.

• Balance central consistency with enough flexibility for different product and domain needs.

• Partner with product and engineering leaders so shared platform and data standards improve delivery speed.

Operational Leadership

• Identify systemic reliability risks, fragile dependencies, and operational bottlenecks early, and drive resolution.

• Introduce visible service health, ownership, and num