Engineering Manager

i6 Group

full-time

Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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About the role

Oversee up to four engineering teams — each with their own Technical Lead.
Oversee architecture and infrastructure decisions for the Biosphere platforms.
Uphold engineering best practices—code quality, CI/CD, testing, and security standards.
Drive technical innovation and optimise delivery processes (Agile/Scrum/Kanban).
Establish robust metrics, monitor team performance, and drive continuous improvement.
Ensure timely, high-quality releases with reliability and maintainability in mind.
Line-manage 3–4 Technical Leads; provide coaching, performance development, and mentorship.
Ensure career growth through planning and regular feedback; contribute to creation and implementation of transparent career ladders.
Align engineering roadmaps with business goals and product direction.
Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Customer Success and Infrastructure teams to deliver impactful features and encourage direct collaboration with Infrastructure colleagues.
Champion company values (Improve, Influence, Impress, Innovation, Intelligence, Integrity); encourage diversity, inclusion, collaboration, and a remote-first mindset.
Foster cross-team collaboration and remove obstacles to delivery.

Proven experience managing multiple engineering teams (preferably 3–4), including line-management of Technical Leads.
Bachelor's degree - preferably in Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar, but other degrees would be considered.
At least 10 years experience in the software development realm.
At least 3 years leading teams.
Experience with our primary languages (PHP and Javascript/Typescript) would be beneficial.
Strong technical leadership in SaaS, Cloud-based platforms—ideally with real-time, data-driven applications.
Experience with Agile methodologies and delivery frameworks.
Strong grasp of architecture, and an ability to lead architectural decision making.
Solid understanding of engineering best practices: CI/CD, code reviews, test automation, observability, security; and a track record of implementing them.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow technical leaders.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills across functions.
Experience with containerisation and orchestration, preferably in GCP or AWS environments.
Experience decomposing monolithic application into finer grained services.
Comfortable with regular UK travel and monthly visits to Farnborough and Manchester.
UK Right to Work (application asks about UK right to work).