Engineering Manager - Stream Aligned
On-siteKnutsford, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead a stream-aligned engineering team in Knutsford by coaching through questions, unblocking proactively, and challenging assumptions to foster autonomy and sustainable delivery. Partner deeply with Product Management to shape priorities and calibrate scope, while working closely with the Tech Lead to align people, delivery, and technical direction. Own delivery effectiveness by improving flow, predictability, and operational readiness, utilizing DORA metrics to enhance deployment frequency and reduce change failure rates. Protect time for discovery and experimentation, reduce cross-team friction, and ensure the team owns production software responsibly through incident learning and continuous improvement. Hire and develop strong engineers, make work visible to stakeholders, and contribute to broader engineering organization learning.
Required Qualifications
- Strong software engineering background, with enough technical depth to reason about architecture, delivery trade-offs, operational risk, and engineering quality.
- Significant experience leading software engineering teams, including at least several years in a people leadership role.
- Experience leading teams through meaningful change, not only maintaining steady state.
- Experience in a stream-aligned or product-aligned team that owns delivery end to end, from discovery through to production operation.
- Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, testing, observability, deployability, and operational readiness.
- Evidence of improving delivery flow, DORA metrics, release confidence, incident response, or sustainable engineering practices.
- Experience partnering closely with Product Managers to shape priorities, calibrate scope, assess risk, and balance customer value with technical investment.
- Experience working effectively with Tech Leads, creating space for technical leadership while holding shared accountability for outcomes.
- Strong people leadership capability, including coaching, feedback, career development, hiring, and performance management.
- Ability to make progress in ambiguity, break large work into deliverable increments, and communicate trade-offs clearly.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to surface risk early and manage dependencies across teams.
- Genuine motivation for engineering management as a craft: growing people, enabling autonomy, improving systems of work, and helping teams succeed.
- Based within reach of our Knutsford office and happy to work in person as part of an office-first culture.
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