Position Summary:
As Engineering Manager, you’ll use your engineering expertise to lead a multi skilled engineering team, enabling the delivery of solutions to create value, drive efficiency and increase performance for our business. You’ll have end-to-end ownership of products, across Change and Run activities, owning the entire stack, including Service Management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help shape a world class engineering function by bringing your experience of cutting edge processes and technologies into the business
- Manage the people and product financial data for your team, meeting targets, providing timely and accurate reporting, and creating opportunities for value realisation in line with our internal processes
- Responsible for managing and delivering against initiative level budgets, working closely with Product to do this
- Work with the Agile and Team Coaches to advocate and embed Agile/lean delivery methodologies
- Responsible for the service support and SLA’s, DORA metrics and change, problem and incident management processes within our engineering capabilities
- Work with Product Managers and Engineers to define the vision and technical direction
- Ensure your team possesses and develops the right skills by deeply understanding the requirements of the product you are building.
- Mentoring and coaching colleagues within your team using your expertise as an engineer
- You’ll recruit diverse teams who are both exceptionally talented and fit the culture of the business
- Encourage and facilitate communities of practice to ensure we share best practice across the engineering teams
Required Education & Experience:
- You’ll be an engineer with a passion for leading and coaching teams of engineers, building a culture to bring out the best in your teams by inspiring them and developing strong relationships
- Ability to manage Capex and Opex lines in the P&L
- Someone who likes to roll up their sleeves and has hands on experience of the languages, tools, and infrastructure
- Advanced working knowledge of a coding language/framework such as JavaScript and React and open to learning new languages
- You’ll have substantial experience leading engineering professionals in a DevOps environment or high-tech company
- Record of developing and delivering large scale, distributed or complex scale platforms
- You’ll be self-driven and constantly striving to improve your teams, focusing on continuous development
- Attention to detail, able to foresee potential pitfalls before they arise
- Ability to prioritise and focus to manage multiple deliveries in different areas