Head of Quality Enablement

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.

We're a Great Place to Work® certified employer, recognised for our commitment to well-being, inclusion and development - and we're growing fast.

IRIS is in the middle of a step-change in how we build software.

Our Agentic SDLC programme is moving the organisation from tool-assisted engineering to agentic as the default way of working, with a 3x productivity target for FY27. As coding velocity rises, the constraints on quality shift. Manual testing as the dominant model no longer fits and the legacy assumption that parts of our estate "cannot be automated" is being actively disproved by modern AI-assisted tooling.

We're looking for an exceptional Quality Engineering leader to define and drive what quality engineering looks like at IRIS in this new world.

This is a strategic transformation role first, and a delivery role second. You'll set the vision, establish standards, lead organisational change, and build the quality engineering mo