Engineering Manager
i6 Group
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Overseeing architecture and infrastructure decisions for the Biosphere platforms with a specific focus on Cloud-agnostic designs to ensure portability and resilience across cloud providers (GCP/AWS).
- Upholding engineering best practices—Code Quality, CI/CD, Testing, Performance, Observability and Security Standards.
- Driving technical innovation.
- Optimising delivery processes (e.g. Agile/Scrum/Kanban).
- Establishing robust metrics, monitoring team performance, and driving continuous improvement.
- Ensuring timely, high-quality releases with reliability and maintainability in mind.
- Collaborating with Tech Leads to implement patterns that minimize vendor lock-in, leveraging tools to maintain a provider-neutral ecosystem.
- Augmenting engineering capability by using appropriate AI coding tools.
- Line-managing 3–4 Technical Leads.
- Providing coaching, performance development, and mentorship.
- Ensuring career growth through planning and regular feedback.
- Aligning engineering roadmaps with business goals and product direction.
- Contributing to the creation and implementation of transparent “career ladders” for the roles within Engineering.
- Driving continuous improvement, by challenging the status quo and fostering a culture of innovation and product and technical ownership.
- Collaborating with Product, Design, QA, and Customer Success to deliver impactful features.
- Build a strong relationship with our enabling teams from Infrastructure, Data and Integrations, encouraging more direct collaboration between engineers and their engineering colleagues.
Requirements
- 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.
- Strong technical leadership in SaaS, Cloud-based platforms—ideally with real-time, data-driven applications and event-driven architectures.
- 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, performance management, security; and a track record of implementing them.
- Practical experience of embedding AI tools in engineering teams with measurable results.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow technical leaders.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across functions.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, preferably in GCP or AWS environments.
- Demonstrated success in decomposing monolithic applications into asynchronous, event-based microservices that prioritize performance and fault tolerance.
- Deep understanding of event-driven design patterns and their application in scaling real-time, data-intensive SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with message brokers and event streaming technologies and their operational trade-offs.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave + your birthday day off
- private healthcare
- 5% pension contribution
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Cloud-agnostic designCI/CDAgileScrumKanbanSaaSCloud-based platformsKubernetesAI coding toolsevent-driven architecture
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcommunicationcollaborationperformance developmentcoachingcontinuous improvementinnovationteam managementrelationship building