Engineering Manager

Management Level

E

Role Summary 

The Engineering Manager will guide, drive, and lead excellence within the teams to enable market-leading software engineering standards for the development and delivery of innovative products enabling iconic global recall to Equiniti. 

Professional Responsibilities - SFIA Responsibility Level: 5 - Ensure, Advise 

• Line Management responsibility for Engineers within the Engineering home. Provide encouragement, guidance, coaching and mentoring to members of the team 

• Lead the adoption of the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM within the engineers aligned to your Home 

• Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products 

• Identify and implement the engineering model best suited for Equiniti based on current business context and available resources 

• Lead and promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality

• Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs 

• Responsible for and above all advocate for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, working alongside Product to ensure the reduction of technical debt is prioritised appropriately 

• Foster and maintain the relationship with central EQ functions (i.e. risk management, compliance, InfoSec etc) and ensure any corrective actions are raised with Product for timely execution

• Mentor and guide all engineers within your team and assist with technical challenges as needed

• Infuse a sense of ownership & pride amongst team members to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team 

• Build a strong talent pipeline through hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc. 

Technical Responsibilities - SFIA Skill: Programming/software development PROG, Release and deployment RELM, Application support ASUP at Level 6 

• Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software construction and refactoring. 

• Plans and leads software construction activities for strategic, large and complex development projects. 

• Adapts or develops new methods and organisational capabilities and drives adoption of, and adherence to policies and standards. 

• Sets the release policy for the organisation in the context of both development and production/operations. 

• Implements processes, tools, and resources to ensure that the transition of services, service components and packages are planned and compliant. 

• Ensures that test, validation and configuration management are included in all release and deployment activities. 

• Provides authorisation for critical release activity and point of escalation. 

• Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures. 

• Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support. 

• Manages application enhancements to improve business performance. 

• Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs. 

Education and Experience 

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc. 

• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems 

• Experience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisation 

• Experience of having led conceptualization and development of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products 

Professional Skills and Qualities 

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum 

• Efficiency improvement 

• Configuration management 

• Release readiness 

• Documentation / technical writing 

• Process, data, system engineering 

• Analytical - business, process, data, system 

• Lifecycle management 

• Problem solving 

Personal Skills and Qualities 

• Emotional intelligence and empathy 

• Motivation, enthusiasm and optimism 

• Collaboration, teamwork and cooperation 

• Active listening and observation 

• Continuous learning 

• Language and communication 

• Creative thinking 

• Resilience, perseverance and patience 

• Ownership and dependability 

• Critical thinking 

• Time management 

• Decision-making 

• Innovative thinking 

• Accountability 

• Leadership and management 

Technical Experience at Accomplished/Advanced Level 

• Full Stack development
• Java, Spring, Oracle, RHEL Linux
• BDD, TDD, Cucumber
• Jira, Confluence, Git (BitBucket)
• REST Services
• Database Design
• Responsive web design
• Dependency Injection
• Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks
• Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
• Web accessibility standards
• Web security principles
• SAST and DAST tools
• Content Management Systems
• Message queuing systems
• Application architecture
• Containers
• Micro Services
• Source code control
• Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, build pipelines
• SQL, PL/SQL, C
• OAuth, Identity Server, 
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services

Domain Knowledge 

• Experience in Financial Services preferred 

• Experience in Pensions welcomed 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.