Associate Engineering Manager

We are looking for a person who is as passionate about excellent engineering as they are for people. As a manager, an Associate Engineering Manager is a person that can be trusted by their team, that works with them individually and as a group to achieve their goals and commitments, and who listens, supports, mentors, coaches, and helps them grow to their full potential.

As an engineer, an Associate Engineering Manager has the ability to communicate technical concepts to a varied audience of stakeholders across the business, and together with product owners, scrum masters and business analysts is accountable for the results and delivery of the team, with a focus on innovation.

What will this role look like on a day-to-day basis?

• Line management, coaching, career progression, planning and growth, for one or two engineering teams
• Ensuring that excellent engineering and innovation are part of every delivery iteration and the team’s roadmap
• Effective communication with both with the team and their stakeholders
• Accountability for the successful delivery of the team’s commitments
• Ensuring that the team is staffed appropriately and protecting its health
• Developing the engineering culture of their team and domain, in the context of the organizational engineering strategy (rapid hypothesis testing, learning from failure, automation, SecDevOps culture)
• Ensuring effective technical knowledge is shared within the team and in collaboration with other teams and Associate Engineering Managers
• Awareness of barriers to innovation, and planning for their removal (through training, removal of technical debt, or other means)
• Occasionally, being able to lend hands-on support to the team

Requirements

We know looking for a new job can be scary, and sometimes the list of skills you are asked for can seem exhaustive. Below are a few of the skills we look for, but please do not be put off applying if you do not have every single one of them!

Some skills you might have:

• People Leader: able to line manage others in line with the organizational policies and adaptable to each individual needs, with a focus on team growth, engagement, ownership and belonging
• Collaborator: able to lead by example in collaboration with the team, their support network, and their stakeholders
• Good Communicator: clearly connects and communicates with developers, product owners, stakeholders, and the domain’s support/leadership team
• Emotional Intelligence and Inclusive Mindset: able to communicate reasoning in clear and simple terms to a diverse audience, flexibility to take different viewpoints and experiences, committed to their own personal and professional growth and that of others, behaves with dignity and respect towards everyone
• Delivery focused: focuses on the delivery of value efficiently and iteratively, and is responsible for fulfilling the team’s commitments

Key Technologies:

• Data Warehousing, Data Modelling, Database Design, ETL
• AWS Redshift, SQL Server, Power BI
• Cloud/DevOps – AWS, Docker, Terraform
• Bitbucket, Bamboo, Team City, Octopus CI/CD deploy pipeline
• Agile, pair programming, code reviews
• Knowledge of one development language (Python, C#, Java), Data Lakes
• Knowledge of Crawlers, Event Sourcing and Data Mesh is a plus