Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Manchester | Contract | Hybrid

We're currently looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join a high-performing international engineering environment and lead a team delivering an important, time-critical technology programme.

This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong Engineering Manager who enjoys leading people, driving delivery and providing technical direction , while remaining close enough to the technology to influence architecture, reliability and engineering standards.

What you'll be doing

Lead, manage and develop engineering teams, typically overseeing 1-3 teams

Coach and mentor engineers, helping individuals and teams perform at their best

Own delivery across roadmaps, milestones, KPIs and team health

Work closely with Product, Design, Engineering and business stakeholders

Identify and remove delivery blockers and communicate risks clearly

Provide technical and architectural guidance across products and services

Take ownership of services in production, including application health, performance and reliability

Lead and support technical incident management , including root-cause analysis and postmortems

Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, systems and ways of working

Support recruitment and headcount planning

Promote strong engineering practices around testing, security, continuous delivery and operational excellence

Potentially participate in an on-call rotation

What we're looking for

5+ years' experience managing software engineering/development teams

Strong software engineering and technical background

Experience with software architecture and system design

Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams

Strong understanding of production systems and service ownership

Experience with incident management, reliability and operational practices

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Comfortable managing priorities, roadmaps, deadlines and competing demands

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