Engineering Manager
Posted 2 days ago by Square One Resources on JobServe
£656 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Knutsford, Cheshire, UK
Summary: The Engineering Manager role involves leading a team of engineers within the UK Banking sector on a 6-month contract basis. The position requires managing team dynamics, fostering skill development, and ensuring high-quality delivery through agile methodologies. The candidate will be responsible for project planning, technical guidance, and maintaining engineering best practices. This role demands a strong background in Java and DevOps, along with experience in financial services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of engineers.
- Help the engineers grow their skills and experience.
- Author project plans for epics.
- Run agile project management processes.
- Provide guidance and coaching to team members on technical contributions, product architecture, and other areas.
- Maintain empathy for the team by keeping awareness of engineering processes and practices.
- Exposure to Agile and working with scrum teams ensuring the high quality delivery of technical stories.
- Responsible for story based design, development & local test and adherence to all coding standards.
- Responsible for high quality code, leading the team into delivery.
- Contribute strongly in all agile ceremonies to ensure high velocity is maintained.
- Support the team technically and culturally to help achieve all targets.
- Strong familiarity with Jira and Confluence and knowledge of DevOps and Continuous Integration & Delivery.
- Contribute and design delivery discussions, manage multiple stakeholders.
- Background in development, working with Java microservices and API.
- Generate and implement process improvements.
- Hold regular 1:1s with all team members and provide clear feedback on performance.
- Foster technical decision making on the team, making final decisions when necessary.
Key Skills:
- Java experience.
- A DevOps background/experience.
- Ideally from a financial services/banking background.
Salary (Rate): £656
City: Knutsford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT