Engineering Manager
Posted 1 day ago by GIOS Technology on Linkedin
Negotiable
Inside
Onsite
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Engineering Manager role focuses on leading a team of engineers in Knutsford, UK, with an emphasis on team health, skill development, and productivity. This position requires a balance of technical credibility and managerial skills to ensure successful project delivery and collaboration across departments. The Engineering Manager is responsible for guiding the team through agile processes and fostering a supportive work environment. The role also involves regular feedback and technical decision-making to enhance team performance.
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.
- Evaluate individual workflow during one-on-ones, conduct code reviews, and work on non-critical path bugs and/or features.
- Ensure high-quality delivery of technical stories while working with scrum teams.
- Responsible for story-based design, development & local test and adherence to all coding standards.
- Lead the team into delivery of high-quality code.
- Contribute strongly in all agile ceremonies (planning / stand-ups / retros etc) to ensure high velocity is maintained.
- Support the team both technically and culturally to help achieve all targets.
- Strong familiarity with Jira and Confluence and knowledge of DevOps and Continuous Integration & Delivery.
- Contribute to and design delivery discussions, manage multiple stakeholders.
- Generate and implement process improvements.
- Hold regular 1:1s with all team members and provide clear feedback on individual performance.
- Foster technical decision-making on the team, making final decisions when necessary.
Key Skills:
- Engineering management experience.
- Technical credibility in software development.
- Experience with agile project management.
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
- Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.
- Knowledge of DevOps and Continuous Integration & Delivery.
- Experience with Java microservices and API development.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to implement process improvements.
- Empathy and awareness of engineering processes and practices.
Salary (Rate): 675
City: Knutsford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT