Engineering Manager

The Key Support Services

full-time

Posted on: 9/9/2025

Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Mid-LevelSenior

CloudCyber SecurityDjangoGoogle Cloud PlatformNode.jsPostgresPythonReactVue.js

About the role

Take overall responsibility for the technical development and delivery of products used by over 16,000 UK schools
Ensure engineering team have the right talent, capabilities and context to build, deliver and maintain products
Lead and be accountable for all elements of engineering including development, devops, documentation, performance, testing and 3rd line support
Identify and prevent issues before they happen and keep current with modern software architectures, frameworks and methodologies
Work with the wider organisation and stakeholders to ensure the engineering team helps hit business goals
Work with senior developers to ensure pragmatic and best-in-class development and devops solutions that are robust, reliable and efficient
Work with security and compliance to align products with ISO 27001 and GDPR
Be a key influencer and owner of the Engineering roadmap, working closely with the Director of Product and product managers
Be curious and innovative and share creative and disruptive ideas

Proven leadership of high-performing engineering teams across multiple disciplines and levels of experience including effective performance management
Proven track record of leading a team to develop, deploy, test and support software solutions across a wide range of technology stacks, programming languages and infrastructure
Strong collaborative mindset with a focus on alignment, outcomes, and continuous improvement
Knowledge and a proven track record of developing scalable, supportable and testable software solutions for front end, back end and mobile platforms
Experience managing complex, cross-team programme delivery involving multiple workstreams and dependencies
Experience of using Google Cloud Platform for scale, automation and resilience/DR
Nice to have: Masters or degree in a technology related subject
Nice to have: Held positions in software development, operations, testing and other technical areas
Nice to have: Experience of EdTech either in a school, Local Authority or commercial environment
Nice to have: Experience with stacks such as Python, Django, PostgreSQL, VueJS, Node, React, Mongo, .net, MSSQL
Nice to have: Experience of implementing cyber security and data protection in line with ISO 27001 and GDPR