About the Role
An international business developing scalable, cloud-based digital products is looking to appoint an experienced Technical Engineering Manager. The role is suited to someone who enjoys managing and mentoring technical teams, influencing architectural direction, and staying actively engaged with engineering practice.
The position combines people leadership, technical oversight, and delivery accountability. You would be responsible for enabling a team of engineers to perform at their best, supporting their development, and creating a culture built on trust, continuous learning, and the responsible use of emerging technologies such as AI.
This opportunity would suit someone who values high technical standards, sustainable team performance, and practical, outcome-focused innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Team Development & Leadership
- Build and nurture diverse technical teams, creating conditions for strong engagement and performance
- Cultivate an environment grounded in mutual trust, open communication, and shared responsibility
- Oversee hiring and onboarding, and actively support career progression through structured development planning, ongoing coaching, and constructive performance management
- Maintain awareness of team composition, core competencies, and succession or growth requirements
- Encourage effective collaboration and iterative delivery practices aligned with modern product development principles
Engineering Direction & Execution
- Work cross-functionally to align technical direction with broader product and business objectives
- Provide oversight for the design, enhancement, and maintenance of cloud-based systems, including modernization of existing platforms
- Define and reinforce engineering best practices spanning maintainability, automated validation, deployment workflows, monitoring, and knowledge sharing
- Contribute to architectural thinking and technical problem-solving without removing ownership from the team
- Ensure a balanced approach to roadmap delivery, platform resilience, security posture, and long-term maintainability
- Identify and mitigate delivery constraints to maintain steady, sustainable output
Applied AI & Emerging Technology
- Support the effective introduction of AI-enabled tooling to improve engineering efficiency and output quality
- Promote measured experimentation with advanced automation and machine learning capabilities where there is clear practical benefit
- Explore opportunities to embed intelligent features into internal systems or customer-facing solutions
- Encourage knowledge exchange around experimentation outcomes to inform future decisions
Delivery Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain oversight of commitments and planning to align expectations with realistic capacity
- Leverage targeted performance indicators to enhance visibility and guide prioritization
- Advocate for ongoing refinement of engineering workflows and tooling
- Reinforce healthy operational practices, including balanced support rotations and structured learning from incidents
- Encourage financial discipline and optimization within hosted infrastructure environments
- Engage with fellow technical leaders to share practices and elevate standards across teams
Requirements
Experience
- Strong foundation in software engineering, with multiple years in technical leadership and people management roles
- Demonstrated success in building and scaling high-performing engineering teams
- Proven delivery experience with customer-facing web applications
- Comfortable operating in Agile environments with a continuous improvement mindset
- Experience leading change initiatives across technology, processes, or ways of working
- Practical experience adopting or introducing AI/ML tools within engineering teams
Technical Foundations
- Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, AWS, and distributed systems
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language
- Strong grounding in system design and core software engineering principles
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability practices, and secure production environments
- Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
