Senior Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee a domain consisting of 6–10 teams with an approximate total of 60–90 engineers.

• Supervise the Engineering Managers who handle daily team leadership and report to the Director of Engineering.

• Mentor and nurture Engineering Managers and senior/lead engineers in technical decision-making, leadership skills, and career advancement.

• Organize and reorganize teams to fill skill or capacity gaps and mitigate key-person dependencies.

• Uphold a uniform standard for high-performing teams and address ongoing under-performance issues.

• Enhance hiring and retention capabilities by empowering Engineering Managers to recruit effectively and establishing career growth and mobility pathways.

• Serve as the primary escalation point for delivery and technical challenges across teams.

• Coordinate workstreams, delegate decisions with well-defined boundaries, and ensure follow-through on execution.

• Collaborate with Product and commercial stakeholders on metrics, project scope, trade-offs, and sustainable missions.

• Utilize team-topology principles to define team boundaries and interaction patterns.

• Maintain sufficient proximity to technical details to evaluate architecture and identify deviations without being hands-on.

• Safeguard software quality against deadline pressures.

• Propel operational maturity in testing, observability, and incident response.

• Develop evidence-based business cases for replatforming, team restructuring, and headcount investments.

• Represent the domain in discussions with engineering peers, Product, commercial stakeholders, and senior leadership.

• Link technical efforts to user and business outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in managing managers, such as Engineering Managers or comparable senior technical leads, within a similar multi-team domain.

• Strong technical foundation adequate for engaging in technical discussions, architectural assessments, and interventions across both legacy and modern systems.

• Evidence-driven leadership that utilizes delivery and quality metrics to inform decisions and foster buy-in.

• Capability to constructively challenge decisions at higher levels when supported by data.

• Authentic collaboration with Product and commercial stakeholders, demonstrating fluency in business and user outcomes.

• Ability to engage credibly as a peer to senior non-engineering stakeholders.

• Coaching focus that emphasizes delegation and accountability.

• Comfort in navigating ambiguity and the ability to provide clarity for teams.

• Experience in the public sector, health, housing, or regulated environments is a plus.

• Experience with team restructuring or organizational change is advantageous.

• Familiarity with legacy modernization alongside greenfield delivery is a benefit.

• Awareness of AI-assisted engineering practices is beneficial.

• Understanding of Developer Experience principles is a plus.

• Experience in environments where engineers manage production services is advantageous.

• Experience working with globally distributed teams is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave + bank holidays

• Option to purchase up to 10 additional days

• Days of Difference – Up to 3 extra days off for volunteering

• Pension Contributions – 5% employer match

• Income Protection – Up to 75% salary coverage for long-term illness

• Life Assurance – 4x salary tax-free lump sum

• Critical Illness Cover – £25,000 lump sum, extendable to dependents

• Private Medical Insurance

• Health Cash Plan covering physiotherapy, therapies & more

• Dental Insurance

• Affinity Groups

• Bounty Bonus for referring a friend

• Inclusive and diverse workplace

• Recruitment adjustments or accommodations available