Engineering Manager - Platform Squads (Capabilities)

• You will be joining Platforms team within Enterprise Digital and be responsible for our Capabilities squad whose goal is to make life for the development teams in other parts of the business easier by providing a set of low friction, fully managed cloud capabilities and abstracting these complexities away from the developer allowing them to focus on code and not infrastructure.
• The Capabilities squad specialises in delivering lean iterations of strategic IAC (Infrastructure as Code) using non-traditional tools such as Pulumi and implementing tooling that allow developers to develop and deploy to the cloud faster and securely.
• And as a polyglot and hands-on Engineering Manager, your code will lead by example and your teams will look up to you for strategic and technical leadership. You will be a confident solutions designer, able to communicate complex ideas clearly at various levels of the organization and skilled in working with multi-skilled teams to come up with workable solutions.
• You will be a great collaborator working with your counterparts and other Engineering Managers within other Platform teams to ensure that our cloud capabilities are first class and provide the best experience to developers each day.
• You and your teams will also collaborate closely with engineering teams across the tribes -understanding their requirements and building out capabilities to support it.

• Be a consultant for multiple teams, your deep hands-on experience with multiple development approaches, patterns, and architectures means that you can advise both external teams and your team as to the best way to implement a solution.
• Lead, grow and hire a team of engineers that develop best-in-breed tooling and IAC capabilities that allow developers to go from idea to production in 12 minutes or less
• Create and Lead strategy for a roadmap that caters to the needs of the business and developers.
• Remove manual implementation from workflows and look to automate as much as possible.
• Provide mentorship and career support for the members of your teams - maximising their potential.
• Agile champion for your teams, taking pride in a metrics-based organisation that looks to continually improve itself.

• 10+ years hands-on software engineering experience delivering and managing software in production in a commercial setting, ideally in enterprise environments.
• A good level of commercial expertise in core Java and Spring Boot
• 4+ years of experience in building software products in Typescript.
• 2+ years of experience in a team leadership position where you were responsible for career growth and mentorship of team members.
• 3+ years of experience with agile systems development methodologies
• 3+ years' experience with cloud computing on AWS.
• Passion for automation with a reluctance for manual implementation
• Bonus is experience with DevOps tools, process and culture.

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Last updated on May 17, 2023