Engineering Manager
Skills
Agile MethodologiesEngineering ManagementManagementStakeholder ManagementTeam Management
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience of engineering leadership and team management
- A clear understanding of the theory and practice of Agile workflows for software project delivery
- Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders across the whole company, expressing project requirements and challenges in clear and transparent language
- Experience of managing multiple concurrent projects to time, budget, and performance specifications, including the scheduling and prioritisation of conflicting requirements
- Effective team management skills, demonstrating an ability to support a multidisciplinary team of software engineering experts and helping to enable them to achieve their own career goals
- Experience with the real-world, commercial challenges of deploying and operating large-scale software systems
- Experience in deploying software to IoT or other hardware devices on customers’ premises would be useful
- Excellent knowledge of the process of building and deploying software in a fast-paced, agile environment
Day to day
- Facilitating communication and coordination between the software engineering teams as well as the product and electro-mechanical engineering teams, ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goals.
- Contribute to the monitoring and planning of software engineering activity.
- Establishing effective, sustainable workflows for software delivery across the teams, supporting them to deliver high-quality products at a steady pace.
- Acting as the direct line manager for engineering staff and supporting them in their personal development
- Coordinating the process of delivery for software projects including the coordination of project kickoff meetings, Agile ceremonies, and product demos.