Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Posted Today by Mindera

Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London, England, United Kingdom

Summary: The Engineering Manager is tasked with overseeing delivery execution, team leadership, and ensuring operational stability within a security-sensitive environment. This role involves managing a CCTV engineering team, planning work to minimize disruptions, and maintaining compliance with security policies. The position is a 12-month contract requiring on-site presence in London Paddington or Stockley Park three days a week.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and manage the CCTV engineering team delivering governance, hardening and upgrades
  • Plan and sequence work across stores to minimise operational disruption
  • Implement delivery governance including change control and release coordination
  • Ensure secure working practices and compliance with security policies
  • Coordinate closely with security operations and incident management teams
  • Track delivery progress, risks, dependencies and capacity
  • Ensure high quality documentation including runbooks and operational handover materials
  • Support the development of sustainable engineering practices and ways of working

Key Skills:

  • Proven experience leading infrastructure or platform engineering teams
  • Strong delivery management and operational risk handling skills
  • Experience working in security sensitive or regulated environments
  • Ability to balance delivery pace with service stability and risk control
  • Comfortable working across distributed estates and legacy platforms

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

The Engineering Manager is responsible for delivery execution, team leadership and operational stability. The role ensures work is delivered safely, predictably and in a way that protects live store operations and security services. The Engineering Manager owns delivery planning, risk management and engineering quality. This is a 12 month contract and you will be expected onsite in London Paddington or Stockley Park three days a week (or combination of the two locations).

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the CCTV engineering team delivering governance, hardening and upgrades
  • Plan and sequence work across stores to minimise operational disruption
  • Implement delivery governance including change control and release coordination
  • Ensure secure working practices and compliance with security policies
  • Coordinate closely with security operations and incident management teams
  • Track delivery progress, risks, dependencies and capacity
  • Ensure high quality documentation including runbooks and operational handover materials
  • Support the development of sustainable engineering practices and ways of working

Required Skills And Experience

  • Proven experience leading infrastructure or platform engineering teams
  • Strong delivery management and operational risk handling skills
  • Experience working in security sensitive or regulated environments
  • Ability to balance delivery pace with service stability and risk control
  • Comfortable working across distributed estates and legacy platforms

Benefits

  • Competitive Rates
  • Working with Mindera and our end client a Multinational British Retailer
  • Opportunity to work with a collaborative team