Job Ref: 215336271

Date: 2021-12-07 15:10:22

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Engineering Manager, Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, MongoDB, AWS, Milton Keynes

Engineering Manager required to work for a large, well-known retail organisation based in Milton Keynes. However, due to Covid-19, this will be partially remote.

You will use your engineering expertise to lead a multi skilled engineering team, enabling the delivery of solutions to create value, drive efficiency and increase performance for the business.

As well as being technically skilled, you will be able to drive progress and work collaboratively with product owners and the business to influence outcomes. You will be responsible for recruiting, retaining and motivating your team to deliver end-to-end technical solutions for products. Their tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, MongoDB, Graph Databases, AWS, Docker & React and they have a microservices mindset. Read on for more details…

Key Responsibilities:

* You will recruit diverse teams who are both exceptionally talented and fit the culture of the business

* Mentoring and coaching colleagues within your team using your expertise as an engineer

* Help shape a world class engineering function by bringing your experience of cutting edge processes and technologies into the business

* Ensure your team possesses and develops the right skills by deeply understanding the requirements of the product you are building.

* Work with Product Managers and Engineers to define the vision and technical direction

* Encourage and facilitate communities of practice to ensure we share best practice across the engineering teams

* Work with the Agile and Team Coaches to advocate and embed Agile/lean delivery methodologies

* Responsible for managing and delivering against initiative level budgets, working closely with Product to do this

* Responsible for the service support and SLA’s, DORA metrics and change, problem and incident management processes within their engineering capabilities

* Manage the people and product financial data for your team, meeting targets, providing timely and accurate reporting, and creating opportunities for value realisation in line with our internal processes

Experience Required:

* You’ll be an engineer with a passion for leading and coaching teams of engineers, building a culture to bring out the best in your teams by inspiring them and developing strong relationships

* Someone who likes to roll up their sleeves and has hands on experience of the languages, tools, and infrastructure

* You’ll be self-driven and constantly striving to improve your teams, focusing on continuous development

* You’ll have substantial experience leading engineering professionals in a DevOps environment or high-tech company

* Record of developing and delivering large scale, distributed or complex scale platforms

* Advanced working knowledge of a coding language/framework such as JavaScript and React and open to learning new languages

This is a great opportunity and salary is dependent upon experience. Apply now for more details

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