Engineering Manager
MetaCompliance
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Derry • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead and support 3+ Scrum teams, ensuring alignment with business goals and product priorities.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture built on trust, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Coach team leads and develop an environment where engineers grow through feedback and support.
- Support engineers’ career growth, performance feedback, and hiring in partnership with People and HR.
- Encourage pragmatic Agile ways of working that strengthen collaboration and delivery.
- Drive lean delivery by helping teams simplify, optimise workflows, and stay focused on value over complexity.
- Encourage continuous improvement through reflection, retrospectives, and experimentation.
- Support teams in delivering secure, maintainable systems on the Microsoft stack (.NET, C#, Azure, SQL Server) through sound engineering practices.
- Partner with leads and senior individual contributors to align on direction and guide balanced technical decisions.
- Promote good practices in secure development, code quality, testing, and DevOps.
- Evolve engineering metrics and guide teams in using them to understand, improve, and share progress.
- Align team goals with company OKRs and product outcomes to keep teams focused on meaningful value.
- Provide clarity and structured problem-solving to help teams remove bottlenecks and maintain steady delivery.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams (3+ ideally) in a SaaS or product environment.
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and Lean principles.
- Excellent people leadership and coaching skills – able to build high-performing, autonomous teams.
- Great communicator and collaborator – works effectively across product, design, QA, infrastructure, and engineering leadership.
- Experience applying secure development principles (e.g., OWASP, secure SDLC).
- Experience in DevOps and CI/CD-driven environments.
- Familiarity with DORA metrics and engineering performance frameworks.
Benefits
- 25-day annual leave allowance (which rises to 26 after 6-months & to 27 after 2 years)
- 4 recharge days
- 10 bank holidays (In line with NI Bank holiday entitlement)
- Up to 8% pension contribution
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
- Flexible hybrid/remote working options
- Two full company socials per year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
.NETC#AzureSQL ServerAgileScrumKanbanDevOpsCI/CDsecure development
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementtrustownershipfeedbackteam building