Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment.
We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.
We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges.
Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.
The Role
As a Head of Technology for the Sportsbook organisation, you’ll be working closely with your partners to prioritise, create and own roadmaps for your Engineering teams to work from. You’ll be working with your technology teams across different locations and time zones to create a vision for your area of responsibility.
You’ll promote a culture of openness and clear feedback. You’ll enable your teams to deliver high quality, scalable software and emphasize a focus on Operational Excellence. Working closely with other Heads within FanDuel, you’ll help solve cross-vertical problems by designing and developing capabilities that fulfil overlapping needs.
Specifically, you will be leading the senior leaders focused on our Risk Management and Catalogue / Pricing Distribution functions, supporting sophisticated risk tooling and content distribution workflows, while collaborating on the roadmap and working with other senior Sportsbook stakeholders and technology leaders to ensure end to end capabilities are realised.
What You’ll Be Doing
Delivery:
- Develop with other heads cross domain and sub-domain strategies to reduce bottlenecks and inefficiencies while promoting collaboration
- Produce and deliver a strategic, technical vision while identifying gaps in ownership and negotiating who’ll own them going forward
- Define and deliver area strategy/vision for our next 2 years
- Engage with colleagues inside and outside technology and with different ways of working to ensure that complex and cross-functional initiatives are delivered, dependencies are managed and continuous improvement is prioritised.
- Responsible for ensuring effective operational support in conjunction with all partners integrated with our Service Operations support organisation and customer support
Stakeholder Management:
- Partner with commercial, risk and product stakeholders to build and balance backlogs as well as roadmaps for our products
- Collaborating with Tech Strategy and Principal partners within Sportsbook to ensure architecturally appropriate solutions are delivered
- Manage a significant budget (in terms of finance & people) and it will be expected to find the best synergies and optimize the efficiency of your teams.
- Collaborating with Flutter Group divisions on large strategic initiatives that exceed FanDuel scope, including but not limited to GBP Evolution and Global Risk initiatives
People:
- Attract the best talent into the tribe;
- Assure that our talent is continuously developed, motivated, and engaged, ensuring that high performers are continuously challenged and provided with new opportunities, and poor performers are managed up or out;
- Responsible for championing every success from the Tribe;
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement within the Technology teams and evolve our agile/scrum delivery processes.
Stability and performance:
- Assure the right performance and stability of all the components and systems;
- Liaising with partners and regulatory bodies to establish and follow an effective release process
What You’ll Bring
- A proven track record building and effectively delivering through teams in a collaborative manner
- Experience defining and executing a strategic vision, working collaboratively and in partnership with our stakeholders on shared goals
- Focus on continuous improvement and stakeholder management to ensure that the department operates effectively
- Experience defining and implementing software delivery best practices, agile delivery methodologies, and proven track-record of continuously improving delivery pace while maintaining quality
- Experience delivering technology solutions for internal customer facing products in a high energy, ambiguous environment
- Experience supporting teams with software systems in production including on-call support with a relentless focus on improving the stability, availability and performance of those systems
- A natural leader of people and a strong team player with a collaborative style; a proven track record building and effectively delivering through teams.
- Strong communicator with a logical, structured, clear, credible, and mature style. Capable of engaging non-technical audiences of different levels.
- You work collaboratively and in partnership with our stakeholders on shared goals. Consistently seeks out and facilitates the sharing of others' ideas and perspectives and positively impacts the achievement of desired outcomes.
- You understand other perspectives and is not hesitant to adapt the approach to achieve a successful outcome. Mostly effective in managing change through applying insights from others and lessons learned from others.
- Creates a climate where people are curious, resilient, determined, learn, and adapt; handles and manages crises effectively; anticipates and shows the way forward during setbacks; builds energy in others to stick with it/to stay on track/push through.
- Demonstrates a strong commitment to the development of talent; recommends and supports development activities in preparation for future roles; invests time to coach and mentor others; builds and proactively manages development to ensure a pipeline of talent is in place; identifies and takes proactive steps to resolve current and future gaps in the talent pool and succession plan; is a talent magnet, capable of identifying, attracting, selecting and developing top talent including and not shying away from the talent that goes beyond their capabilities; finds and attracts diverse talent who have the critical capabilities needed by the organisation; works to create an organisation that is an attractive place to work.
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So ... are you in?
Equal opportunities
At Blip, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply. We are committed to including everyone regardless of their race, disability, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.
Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don’t have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.
If you need any adjustments to apply for the position and to ensure this role aligns with your needs, please send an email to [email protected].
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