The Engineering Manager is accountable for overseeing software development process and coordinating with stakeholders to align the squad’s work with overall company objectives to ensure on-time delivery, as well as hiring and managing engineering talent (including hiring, staffing, and performance reviews) for a given product/platform.

Responsibilities include

• Must have an extensive technical background, as well as excellent communication, cooperation, and mentoring skills, one who care about every employee's growth and well-being and also manage people effectively

• This role involves working with senior leadership, product management and other stakeholders across Engineering, responsible for multiple squads/individuals working on multiple products across locations, ensuring that they are fully supported and are enabled to deliver to their commitments.
   
• Should be open to change with new ways of solving problems, boost employee performance, drive workplace communication and prepares employees for success by using people-management skills.

• This role requires at least 12+ years of overall experience in software industry and minimum 3 years of that in a management role.
   
  
• • Secondary Responsibilities
    • Work with the Management team to co-ordinate holidays, staff reviews, training plans and recruitment plans  
    • Maintain an accurate list of resource allocation and scheduled project completion dates 
    • Attend monthly meetings with the Delivery Management team 
    • Accurate and timely reporting on projects/program 

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• The applicant should be able to get involved in estimation and troubleshooting when required.
• Oversee the software development process, from design to deployment, ensuring on-time delivery
• Contribute to overall business strategy and annual budget process in collaboration with Engineering Director
• Promote agile methodologies, engineering best practices e.g. CI/CD, automated testing etc. to encourage quality software development
• Risk management across the squads and plan mitigation
• Ensure squads are focused on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
• Collaborate proactively across Engineering in ensuring adoption of standard process and leveraging common/platform components and ensure that we are constantly elevating engineering productivity
• Work closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams including PX, Directors of Engineering, Product Managers and Product Owners to understand the business strategy, required resources, work plans and budget to implement the product vision
• Take ultimate ownership of the product development execution, including R&D, Solutions Engineering, DevOps, reliability, security, etc - this involves working closely with other internal teams
• Provide  leadership,  coach,  mentor and develop direct reports and develop high performing teams that deliver continuous improvement, add value and reduce costs.
• Regular tracking and reporting of program/project KPI’s, progress and performance
• Set goals, provide feedback, and oversee the day-to-day operations of the team 
• Establish regular 1-1 meetings with engineering team members to provide consistent feedback
• Manage attrition and drive merit-based promotions 
• Support Recruitment and Training working in collaboration with the Directors of Engineering
• Onboard new employees and coach them on internal processes 
• Own hiring process and collaborate with internal and external recruiters to attract and identify the best talent globally

Must Have:

• An engineering background - either development or testing, but decided to put more energy into leadership skills
• A passion for technology – striving for the highest standards in quality of the software
• Experience of both traditional-hosted and cloud-hosted products
• Led effective delivery of multiple projects or teams in a highly dynamic, fast-paced software development environment
• A people-oriented leader, able to model and cultivate a collaborative culture of ownership, delivering while being fair and having fun
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to explain technical issues to people at various skill levels
• Hired or designed hiring processes for Engineering roles
• Excellent decision-making, strategic planning, time management and problem-solving skills
• Should have hands on skills on .Net, C#, SQL or any relational and non-relational database,
• Must have experience on working with Azure/AWS services and various components, containerization, Kubernetes, CICD and DevOps tools

Should Have

• Have experience working in a SaaS/product company
• Know the meaning of typical SaaS & Engineering metrics (e.g. MRR, churn, lead time, MTTR, velocity, etc.) and having the ability to incorporate them into the daily life of the team
• Have experience managing remote teams and working in a remote team

Additional Skills

• A strong commitment to fostering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the team
• Extensive experience of tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub
• Identify and measure team health indicators

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• Generous Annual Leave – 20 days, plus public holidays, with the possibility to buy additional days
• Life Insurance – 3x times annual salary
• 65% Internal Mobility – Committed to the development & growth of our people
• Exposure to the latest technologies

We are one the UK’s largest tech companies, and our products sit at the heart of some of the country's best-known businesses. We’ve grown phenomenally quickly with a £275m turnover and 2,800 employees supporting over 25,000 customers. We hire for potential. We want to make sure we have the best people for the job and provide genuinely equal opportunities for our people to thrive. Our recruitment process is designed with inclusion and equity at its core.

Find out more about the next steps once you’ve applied here - careers.oneadvanced.com/how-we-hire