Project Manager

Summary: The Engineering Manager role focuses on managing a team of engineers, emphasizing their growth and productivity while ensuring high-quality delivery of projects. The manager is responsible for coordinating across departments, maintaining team health, and implementing process improvements. They are expected to have a strong technical background and actively participate in agile project management processes. The position requires a balance of technical credibility and people management skills to foster a successful engineering environment.

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 (planning / stand-ups / retros etc) to ensure high velocity is maintained.
• Be supportive within 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 and design delivery discussions, manage multiple stakeholders.
• Should be from a development background, working with Java microservices and API.
• Generate and implement process improvements.
• Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team and give regular and clear feedback around individual performance.
• Foster technical decision making on the team, but make final decisions when necessary.

Key Skills:

• Strong technical background in engineering management.
• Experience with agile project management.
• Proficiency in Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of DevOps and Continuous Integration & Delivery.
• Experience with Java microservices and API development.
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in process improvement initiatives.

Salary (Rate): £450

City: Knutsford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT