Engineering Manager

Role - Engineering Manager Location - London/Burgess Hill, UK (Hybrid) Type - Contract (Inside IR35)/Fixed Term : Key Responsibilities Software Engineering

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
• Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
• Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
• Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
• Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices Leadership
• People Leader to software engineering team, including colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to sr. engineering colleagues in team(s)
• Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
• Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Take accountability for the technical maturity of the team
• Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
• Hire top talent for the team Essential Criteria – Education & Experience
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years of active engineering – Experienced with Kotlin / Java
• 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
• Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
• Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
• Experienced ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance) Essential Criteria – Technical Skills
• Deep knowledge and experience in programming, testing, and application design for microservices using Java 17 and above or Kotlin, Spring and build automation with Gradle.
• Observability – Logging, Monitoring & Alerting Strategy & Implementation using industry standard frameworks like Sentry
• Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with Github actions, CircleCI.