Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Salary

Basic in the region of £65k (neg)

Bonus 10%

Date Listed

October 21, 2021

Location

Oxford

(can be remote / hybrid)

Position Contract

Permanent

Category

Leadership,Software Engineering,Technology

Details

As an Engineering Manager within this Global Digital platform, you’ll play a key role in providing a robust solution to support services and customers within the Content and Data Domain function. You’ll lead a talented team of like-minded, driven Engineers working on some highly visible, large-scale projects with influence over a wide range of business and technology stakeholders.

Working with colleagues from across Product, Architecture, Business Analysis, and Engineering to propose technical solutions that not only meet business needs but align to our longer-term technology roadmap.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborates with Enterprise and Data Architects to understand the organisational architectural vision, blueprint, guidelines, principles, and Data Model.
• Reviews the proposed technical solution and approach to design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions
• Ensure that the team optimises codes while contributing to business goals and product strategies
• Operate with scale and speed, amidst flux in the fast-paced environment
• Set up best practices for development and overlook its adoption
• Become instrumental in improving and implementing processes and values that scale effectively
• Grow a diverse, highly skilled group of engineers, gaining fantastic exposure to scaling a tech team at a unique pace.
• Be willing to roll up your sleeves and debug/tune/code/fix alongside your team (Drive and teach technical incident response).
• Provide technical mentorship to Engineers building and deploying large-scale projects internationally.
• Line manages one or more teams of Technical Lead and Software Engineers.
• Create clear career paths for team members and ensure their growth by mentoring them.

Who we’re looking for:

We know that sometimes the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don’t fit all the requirements. If you’re excited about this role and have most of the skills or experience we’re looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need!

• A strong technical acumen coupled with excellent people management skills
• Proven leadership skills as a line manager to a team. You set goals and objectives and offer advice, setting your team up for success
• Your style is collaborative and supportive, to encourage your team to continually optimise their code. Conduct and participate in technical design reviews.
• You’re a natural recruiter, passionate about building your team. Passionate about collaborative problem solving
• You’ve expertise in micro-services architecture, edge-computing, web-security, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and delivery with versioning control tools
• You’ve expertise in architecting, implementing, and managing high performance scalable J2EE applications on Linux/Unix platforms
• You’ve experience with deployments on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
• You’ve hands-on expertise in Software Development such as Java framework, Python, JavaScript, Scala, etc.
• You’ve hands-on expertise in building REST API’s – Patterns, Versioning, Resources, Security, etc.
• You’ve experience in No-SQL(MongoDB) and RDBMS databases.
• You’re passionate about debugging and participating in code reviews with your team and your peers
• You’re a Technical evangelist – you love exploring and learning new things
• You’ve experience in leading an agile software development team using Scrum and/or Kanban
• You’ve experience in stakeholder management with strong verbal and written communication

Promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and personal and professional development is embedded into the culture of this organisation. They believe that the skills and experience you bring are invaluable and want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about.

On offer:

A basic salary in the region of £65,000 (negotiable on experience)

Up to 10% Bonus

25 days leave, plus BH’s, birthday and volunteering days

Access to many subsidised benefits inc private healthcare, gym membership, dental, etc.

The Talent Movement aims to respond to all applicants within 10 working days.  Please apply with your CV or contact Kate Hill at The Talent Movement to discuss in more detail.

You must have the right to work and live in the UK.