Senior Engineering Manager

About the role: 

Civica builds products and technologies that empower the public sector to serve citizens around the world. Our solutions are widely used across Government, Housing, Transport, Education, and Healthcare sectors in the UK and abroad. We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join our team. 

Using your technical and leadership expertise, you will manage engineers and engineering managers, owning the people management and delivery efforts of multiple engineering teams. You’ll make data driven decisions, instilling a culture of measurement and constant learning and improvement. You’ll strive to make Civica a great place to work, learn and grow for software engineers. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Hire, build and manage multiple teams of successful & happy software engineers 

• Enabling your teams for success, delivering high-quality products to our customers 

• Set and communicate clear priorities and a strategy that contribute to Civica’s goals 

• Help to set the long-term technical vision for your teams, and contribute to the wider Civica Engineering vision 

• Drive the evolution of Civica’s engineering culture 

• Develop and align processes and decision-making across teams 

• Aligning engineering efforts with product colleagues & other senior stakeholders 
   
  

Requirements: 

• Experience in recruiting, coaching and mentoring software engineers and managers 

• A technical background, able to engage with software engineers on a deeply technical level and contribute to technical decision making 

• Strong knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile development, testing principles, security, and observability 

• Expertise implementing engineering metrics to drive quality and performance 

• Comfortable with ambiguity, and able to create clarity for your teams 

Nice to Haves: 

• Awareness of Developer Experience principles 

• Experience modernising legacy software 

• Worked in an environment where engineers own production services 

• Experience working with globally distributed teams 

Some technologies that we use: 

• .NET (C#) 

• Go (Golang) 

• Playwright 

• Azure & AWS Platforms 

• GitHub 

• Kubernetes 

• Docker 

• Terraform 

• Datadog 

• SQL Server