Software Engineering Manager
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead reserving product development, release, and continuous improvement using Agile, product-oriented, or flow-based delivery approaches. Coach, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe culture focused on quality and sustainable delivery. Partner with Architects, Senior Engineers, Product, Platform, Security, and Operations teams to assess technology options and define robust, scalable, secure, and maintainable architectures supporting cloud/SaaS evolution. Provide delivery and technical troubleshooting support to unblock issues, manage risks, and identify systemic improvements. Enable a data-informed engineering culture by using meaningful metrics to identify bottlenecks, improve team flow, and guide continuous improvement. Recruit, onboard, develop, and retain high-calibre software engineers while recommending improvements to team structures and operating models. Oversee development, quality assurance, security, and governance processes, recommending enhancements to automation and tooling for secure software delivery. Promote responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools, balancing productivity with human review, maintainability, security, and compliance. Champion developer experience by reducing friction, improving documentation, and supporting self-service engineering practices.
Required Qualifications
- strong background in software engineering
- experience delivering complex commercial applications across a range of technologies
- technical leadership and people management
- successful track record of leading engineering teams
- building inclusive and high-performing cultures
- improving delivery flow
- balancing speed with quality, security, reliability and maintainability
- technical credibility
- strategic and operational leadership
- stakeholder management
- team engagement
- recruitment
- organisational design
- continuous improvement
- coaching
- established technical lead or engineering leader
- accountable for the development, release and continuous improvement of reserving products
- delivering high-quality outcomes through appropriate Agile, product-oriented or flow-based delivery approaches
- Coach, mentor and develop engineers
- fostering an inclusive, collaborative and psychologically safe culture
- focused on quality, learning, accountability and sustainable delivery
- Partner with Architects, Senior Engineers, Product, Platform, Security and Operations teams
- assess technology options
- define robust, scalable, secure and maintainable architectures
- support cloud/SaaS evolution
- modern user experiences
- product innovation
- Provide delivery and technical troubleshooting support
- using sound judgement
- people leadership
- data
- unblock issues
- manage risks
- identify systemic improvements
- Enable a data-informed engineering culture
- using meaningful delivery, quality, reliability, customer and developer-experience metrics
- identify bottlenecks
- improve team flow
- guide continuous improvement
- Recruit, onboard, develop and retain high-calibre software engineers
- identifying training needs
- supporting career development
- recommending improvements to team structures and operating models
- Oversee development, quality assurance, security and governance processes
- recommending improvements to the practices, automation and tooling
- support secure and reliable software delivery
- Promote responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools and automation
- ensuring productivity improvements are balanced with human review
- maintainability, security, compliance and clear engineering standards
- Champion developer experience
- reducing unnecessary friction
- improving documentation
- encouraging reusable patterns
- supporting appropriate self-service engineering practices
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