- Company Name
- MRJ Recruitment
- Job Title
- Senior Engineering Manager
- Job Description
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Job title: Senior Engineering Manager
Role Summary: Lead and grow engineering capability across multiple squads, overseeing performance, delivery, and development of five backend and high‑transaction service squads. Act as coach, mentor, and strategist to ensure technical excellence, agile best practices, and alignment with business objectives.
Expectations: Manage high‑performing engineering teams; deliver scalable, high‑volume microservices and event‑driven architecture; maintain agile and DevOps practices across hybrid onshore/offshore teams; drive continuous improvement in delivery, quality, and velocity; collaborate cross‑functionally with product, architecture, DevOps, and service; champion a culture of feedback, growth, and innovation.
Key Responsibilities: • Lead Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Engineers. • Own technical strategy and roadmap for backend and transactional squads. • Build and maintain effective Agile and DevOps ways of working. • Drive continuous improvement in delivery, quality, and velocity. • Collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders. • Champion a culture of feedback, growth, and innovation.
Required Skills: • Leadership and coaching of engineering talent. • Proven success managing complex software development environments and budgets. • Deep understanding of Agile, DevOps, and the full SDLC. • Technical proficiency with AWS services (Kinesis, Lambda, ECS, EventBridge, CDK, CloudFormation). • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Miro, Teams. • Knowledge of modern engineering practices: cloud‑native architecture, microservices, event‑driven architecture, TDD, BDD. • Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and stakeholder management.
Required Education & Certifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. • AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent cloud certification preferred.
Manchester, United kingdom
Hybrid
Senior
28-09-2025