Senior Engineering Manager

Company Description

Who we are 

At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for job seekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match, in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.  

Join our team of 4,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job-tech platform.  

Your benefits 

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays 
• Private medical and dental healthcare 
• Pension contribution up to 10% 
• Training and development opportunities 
• Cycle to work scheme 
• In house Barista 
• Hybrid working model 
• Volunteering days 
• and you can bring your dog to the office! 

Job Description

The job at a glance  

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for ensuring the delivery team has everything they need to deliver valuable outcomes. You will ensure that the team understands the business needs, challenges and opportunities, and create a culture where the team proactively collaborates to find solutions, self-organise and drive action.

Working in the Commercial Product And Technology business area, as people manager you are responsible for the operational ownership of the system within their business area of your portfolio. As a leader in Tech, you work with other members of the Tech community, such as Staff Engineers and Architects, to support the creation of a thriving engineering culture within your team and support an engineering approach in line with our Technology, cloud/hosting and architecture strategies. And as a role model in the Stepstone Group, you embody the company values and continuously advocate for and on behalf of your team, regularly communicating updates, recognising successes of the team, and promoting the Tech community.

This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.​

Your responsibilities

• Technical operational ownership – compliance to NFRs, cost, quality, service delivery and integrity of systems in scope, and People leadership and career development of team members.
• Communication and Alignment: Facilitate communication and alignment among team members, departments, and stakeholders
• Decision-Making: Participate in decision-making processes for projects, resources, and technology.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks in engineering project, and Budget Planning and Resource Management; Contribute to budget planning and effectively manage resources.
• Aligning with the Staff Engineer to drive team focus on engineering health and quality including: quality and technical excellence, security, GDPR, Compliance, Ownership of Products and domains and NFRs.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Good Communicator: clearly connects and communicates with developers, product owners, stakeholders, and senior leaders, and Good Collaborator: able to lead by example in collaboration with the team, their support network, and their stakeholders.
• 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.
• Technology Mindset: Understands the technology ecosystem and SDLC, and can work with it and the team to define technical solutions that support Stepstone to meet its business goals.

Additional Information

Our commitment 

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.