Product Engineering Manager
Summary: The Product Engineering Manager role in Reading involves leading engineering delivery for a consultancy's Innovation platform, focusing on hands-on management of DevOps, testing, and analytics. The position requires overseeing third-party and offshore development teams while contributing to infrastructure management and budget planning. This contract-to-perm opportunity is classified as inside IR35 and offers a hybrid working arrangement. The ideal candidate will have strong technical experience and a player-coach mentality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading engineering delivery, including DevOps, testing, analytics, and platform reliability
- Managing third-party and offshore development teams (India-based)
- Owning infrastructure oversight: capacity planning, priorities, continuous improvement
- Bringing AI tooling into the team to support governance and increase capacity
- Line managing 3-4 direct reports within a wider team of 10
- Contributing to budget planning and risk management
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure, DevOps, and Power Platform
- Experience managing third-party/offshore development teams
- Solid infrastructure background, not just theory
- AI experience beyond just using it, ideally governance and controlled implementation
- A player-coach mentality, still close to the technical detail, not purely strategic
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Reading
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Product Engineering Manager | Reading | Contract-to-Perm | Inside IR35
Location: Reading (Hybrid, 1-2 days/week in office)
Contract: 3 months initially, converting to permanent
Rate: Open, DOE | Inside IR35
We're hiring on behalf of a growing consultancy based in Reading, looking for a hands-on Product Engineering Manager to lead day-to-day engineering delivery across their Innovation platform.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading engineering delivery, including DevOps, testing, analytics, and platform reliability
- Managing third-party and offshore development teams (India-based)
- Owning infrastructure oversight: capacity planning, priorities, continuous improvement
- Bringing AI tooling into the team to support governance and increase capacity
- Line managing 3-4 direct reports within a wider team of 10
- Contributing to budget planning and risk management
What we're looking for:
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure, DevOps, and Power Platform
- Experience managing third-party/offshore development teams
- Solid infrastructure background, not just theory
- AI experience beyond just using it, ideally governance and controlled implementation
- A player-coach mentality, still close to the technical detail, not purely strategic
This is a fast-moving process with an early-August start. If this sounds like your background, drop your CV, rate, and availability, and we'll jump on a call straightaway to talk through the details.
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