Manager, Software Engineering

Location: ITA - Lucca, Via Borgo Giannotti

Remote Type: Hybrid (8 days/month)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Here at CCH Tagetik, part of Wolters Kluwer's Corporate Performance & ESG division, we are looking for a Manager, Product Software Engineering with strong leadership ability, a pragmatic outlook and experience growing teams and people to join our Development and operations teams.

As a Manager, you will use both your leadership and technical expertise to guide and enable diverse teams of highly engaged engineers. You’ll give coaching, mentorship and direction for 5/6 teams. You’ll have the skills, experience, wisdom, patience and determination to work with the team to deliver high quality software to meet our customers needs and continually improve the capacity and capabilities of the team.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Translate business needs into capability build up and hiring plans in own teams, play a key role in helping us continue to attract, develop and retain great engineering talent.

• Provide regular feedback to people you lead in a caring and direct way.

• Help our people set goals that will grow their careers.

• Foster a diverse and inclusive working environment where everyone can thrive.

• Identify blockers, problems or red flags and ensure the teams are aware of these and take timely action to deal with them.

• Set performance goals according to employee expectations and company needs and check the progress towards these goals with periodical check-ins, collecting feedback, and giving support and direction.

• Cascade and clarify organizational vision, strategy, goals, and procedures to team members.

• Collaborate with the recruiting team and help define the team composition and the overall organizational design.

• Collaborate with other teams and functions to facilitate seamless integration and successful product launches.

You Have:

• At least a couple of years of experience in leading people.

• Solid understanding of application & system development and Agile practices.

• Refined prioritization skills, to focus your time and energy where it’ll have the most impact.

• Strong understanding of how to drive a thriving Engineering culture.

• Experience in coaching and developing teams career wise.

• Data driven approach to decision making.

• Ability to drive sustainable growth of the Engineering organization, finding, retaining and developing top talents.

• Ability to implement evaluation criteria and career planning for engineers which address a healthy mix of technical & leadership skills.

• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

• Fluency in Italian and English.

Nice to Have:

• Background or prior exposure to security, SOC operations, compliance frameworks, or regulatory standards, such as SOC 1, SOC 2, DORA, NIS2, or similar.

• Understanding of security processes and governance, enabling effective leadership of the SOC team from a people-management perspective (no hands-on technical execution required).

What do we offer you at CCH Tagetik part of Wolters Kluwer? 

• Flexible working hours where you can start between 8:00 and 10:00 and flexible working policy (3 days a week from home, 2 days a week in the office).

• Modern office in an old coffee factory where you can work together in teams but also connect with your colleagues. Just outside the walls of Lucca and close to the train station.

• English classes and full access to E-learning platforms such as Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning and Udemy.

• Possibility of certification paths.

• Development plans to help you steering your career path. Annual performance and salary reviews.

• Community and teambuilding events like the global code games, network events and Wolters Kluwer value days.

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Our Interview Practices

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.