Engineering Manager - Infrastructure & Platforms

• Lead a team of automation engineers providing cloud deployment frameworks and tooling, enabling Product Engineering Teams to quickly realize value for customers

• Own the end-to-end delivery pipeline owning the code driven deployment infrastructure, automated test safety nets, effective operational instrumentation and incident response.​

• A leader of people and a mentor to engineers within your squad, you should be on point for advice and guidance. You should be a team player who works collaboratively to achieve the goals of the squad.

• Work with your peer Engineering Managers within Platform Experience to ensure resourcing, priority and delivery commitments are aligned.

• Drive customer-focussed feature delivery and improvements in CI/CD & Platform Experience Infrastructure automation frameworks. ensuring that delivery plans are achieved, and that they are driven by data and that the team commits to it.​

• Take on day-to-day management duties for the Engineers within your squad, including regular 1-2-1s, coaching and mentoring, enabling career development and assisting the Senior Engineering Manager with recruitment for new Engineers when required.​

• Actively participates in automation design, data flows and detailed technical design. ​

• Where appropriate will work with counterparts in Product and Delivery to achieve the outputs required.​

• Liaise with other teams with the business to communicate and co-ordinate work and dependencies.​

• Take ownership for code-quality, security & scalability, ensuring systems you work on achieve business goals and meet customer needs.​

• Ensures that high performers are challenged and champion their development. Equally ensures that poor performers are managed accordingly.​

• Fosters a culture of transparency, openness, ensuring the squad is a motivated cohesive unit. Takes robust action when they view behaviours which do not fit with these principals. ​

• Supports the implementation of Continuous Integration & Delivery, ensuring that delivery takes places in an Agile manner, releasing to production as soon as possible and experimenting where appropriate​

• Uses data to inform decision making around delivery approach, holds their team and themselves account for delivery towards the goals of the team​

• Actively participates in the culture of the Technology organisation, championing initiatives and showing a deep understanding of commercial goals and customer needs.​

• Ensures that all solutions built are of high quality and well tested. Ensuring features can be tested, and co-ordinating test efforts within team when required.​

• Continually drive improvements to QA process, ensuring that we constantly improve test coverage focussing on automation. Establishing strong standards and holding the team to them.

• Proven track record of delivering projects through multi-disciplinary teams using Agile & lean principals.

• Able to clearly set priorities and focus on what is the most important task at hand.

• A comfortable leader and confident communicator. Able to explain complex technical ideas to technical & non-technical stakeholders.

• Commercially aware and with a strong focus on our Customer

• Experience working closely with other technology teams

• Structured thinking and a clear ability to plan out how to achieve product goals

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