Senior Engineering Manager (6 month Contract)
Posted 1 week ago by MRJ Recruitment
£600 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary: This role is for a Senior Software Engineering | Delivery Manager on a contract basis, focusing on delivery excellence across multiple product teams in a hybrid work environment. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time and align with architectural standards. The role does not involve direct line management but emphasizes strategic engineering and delivery management. Candidates should have experience in engineering delivery at scale and a strong understanding of architecture principles.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with architectural integrity.
- Highlight risks early, escalate as needed, and support Engineering Managers to realign teams.
- Act as a connector across Core Services product teams, ensuring smooth collaboration.
- Ensure all engineering output aligns with architectural standards.
- Provide guidance on complex technical decisions without taking direct management responsibility.
- Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and Account Directors to align delivery efforts.
- Facilitate effective ways of working across teams, ensuring priorities and dependencies are clearly understood.
Key Skills:
- Experienced in engineering delivery at scale, ideally in a platform or product-led environment.
- Strong understanding of architecture principles, with the ability to review and influence designs.
- Experience with cloud services (ideally AWS), Infra-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Exceptional at cross-team coordination and prioritisation.
- Comfortable operating as a strategic advisor and delivery lead without direct line management.
- Ability to use data and metrics to inform decisions and align engineering efforts with business goals.
- Extensive stakeholder management experience with a focus on creating alignment across teams.
Salary (Rate): £600/day
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Role: Senior Software Engineering | Delivery Manager (contract)
Contract Rate: £600/day (outside IR35)
Location: Manchester (2 days per week with applicants based in the UK without Visa or sponsorship requirements)
Start: Within the next 2 weeks
Core Purpose of the Role: This is a hybrid delivery-focused role sitting between Engineering Management, Principal Engineering, and Delivery Management where you’ll support multiple product teams. Your mission is to ensure delivery excellence across multiple teams, help enforce architecture standards, identify and escalate risks early, and keep engineers aligned to priorities. You will also collaborate closely with a close partner to the brand, acting as a channel and delivery manager to ensure all initiatives are delivered effectively. This is purely a delivery and strategic engineering role — no direct line management is required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivery & Delivery Management
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with architectural integrity.
- Highlight risks early, escalate as needed, and support Engineering Managers to realign teams.
- Act as a connector across Core Services product teams, ensuring smooth collaboration.
- Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Ensure all engineering output aligns with architectural standards.
- Provide guidance on complex technical decisions without taking direct management responsibility.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and Account Directors to align delivery efforts.
- Facilitate effective ways of working across teams, ensuring priorities and dependencies are clearly understood.
Who We’re Looking For: Experienced in engineering delivery at scale, ideally in a platform or product-led environment. Strong understanding of architecture principles, with the ability to review and influence designs. Experience with cloud services (ideally AWS), Infra-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation and best practices for scalable infrastructure. Exceptional at cross-team coordination and prioritisation. Comfortable operating as a strategic advisor and delivery lead without direct line management. Ability to use data and metrics to inform decisions, effect change, and align engineering efforts with business goals Extensive stakeholder management experience with a focus on working with the wider business and the ability to create alignment across teams If you thrive in a fast-moving environment, enjoy working across teams to drive delivery success, and want to make an immediate impact at a scale company, we’d love to hear from you. Interested? Get in touch today, shortlisting is taking place asap with interviews planned for 11th/12th September.