Engineering Manager

Team: Engineering - General

Location: Belfast

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

About You:

• You’re a passionate technologist with 6+ years of Software Engineering experience and 3+ years as a People Manager/Lead.
• You’re an excellent leader, communicator, innovative and self-motivated, with a positive approach to teamwork- Working to shape and encourage those who have the skills to build software solutions within a Product Development practice.
• You have experience working in an agile software development environment and will seek out opportunities for improvement whilst identifying and managing risk.
• You have an analytical approach and have experience in evaluating capability needs and the suitability of initiatives against the strategy.
• You are exceptionally well organised and drive a high standard of output for yourself and your team.
• You’ll have the ability to challenge effectively and constructively, whilst driving good practice, both personally and with your colleagues, ensuring clear, well-informed and focused presentation of output to key stakeholders and clients at varying levels.
• You’re comfortable balancing speed-to-market and long-term engineering decisions.
• You have a passion for people management, mentorship, and career growth on your team.
• You’re data-driven in your decision-making, willing to take calculated risks and fail fast, and aren’t afraid to raise your hand when you see areas to improve.
• You have practical experience with AI development and delivery, taking a proactive and innovative approach to driving modern AI capabilities into real-world software solutions.
• You have a knack for driving engineering efforts and communicating with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Providing coaching, mentorship, and career development.
• Optimising team velocity by ruthlessly prioritising workload, removing roadblocks to progress, and actively protecting the team from disturbance, disruption, or outside interference.
• Closely collaborating on product strategy with your Product Manager, and working with him/her to manage and prioritise the product backlog.
• Identifying opportunities for your team’s professional development and work with the right partners to make it happen.
• Anticipating future people requirements and working with the talent team to recruit, evaluate, and hire great new team members.
• Providing performance feedback and complete performance evaluations for the team.
• Providing informal performance feedback on a frequent basis, recognising achievement and flagging opportunities for growth.
• Providing advice and assistance to teams on technical difficulties that arise in the course of doing their work..
• Leveraging your experience to flag issues that your team might overlook (such as scalability, performance, security, compliance, operational readiness, etc.).
• Staying current in the development tools and technologies that your team members are using.