Engineering Manager

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Advanced Health and care are looking to recruit a senior software engineer to join an existing team of experienced developers in the continued enhancement of one of their market leading solutions. The role involves working on existing and future solutions, while adopting emerging technologies. It covers the full lifecycle of product development and support. Some of the key aspects are enhancements/maintenance of the existing solutions, upgrading frameworks and implementing secured and scalable, reusable solutions/components.

Job description:

Role Introduction:

The Engineering Manager (aligned to Azure DevOps) is accountable for overseeing software development process and coordinating with stakeholders to align the squad's work with overall company objectives to ensure on-time delivery, as well as hiring and managing engineering talent (including hiring, staffing, and performance reviews) for a given product/platform.

They must have an extensive technical background include experience in maintain workloads in

Azure, aligned to CAF, as well as excellent communication, cooperation, and mentoring skills, one who care about every employee's growth and well-being and also manage people effectively.

This role involves working with senior leadership, product management and other stakeholders across Engineering, responsible for multiple squads/individuals working on multiple products across locations, ensuring that they are fully supported and are enabled to deliver to their commitments.

They should be open to change with new ways of solving problems, boost employee performance, drive workplace communication and prepares employees for success by using people management skills.

This role requires at least 12+ years of overall experience in software industry and minimum 3 years of that in a management role, including experience working in the Azure cloud platform.

The applicant should be able to get involved in estimation and troubleshooting when required.

What You Will Do:

Responsibilities include:

o Lead and manage a team of Azure DevOps engineers responsible for platform deliverables including designing, implementing, and maintaining IaC and toolchain to support software development, testing, and deployment.

o Develop and implement DevOps strategies, processes, and best practices to improve software delivery speed, quality, and reliability

o Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software development, operations, and quality assurance, to ensure seamless integration of DevOps practices into the software development lifecycle.

o Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the DevOps team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.Drive COP across engineering, through patterns, practices and collaboration between engineering.

o Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in DevOps and cloud computing.

o Oversee the software development process, from design to deployment, ensuring on-time delivery

o Contribute to overall business strategy and annual budget process in collaboration

with Director of Platform Engineering DevOps.

o Promote agile methodologies, engineering best practices e.g. CI/CD, automated testing etc. to encourage quality software development

o Risk management across the squads and plan mitigation

o Ensure squads are focused on priorities, milestones, and deliverables

o Collaborate proactively across Engineering in ensuring adoption of standard process and leveraging common/platform components and ensure that they are constantly elevating engineering productivity

o Work closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams including Directors of Platform Engineering, Product Managers and Product Owners to understand the business strategy, required resources, work plans and budget to implement the product vision

o Take ultimate ownership of the product development execution, including Platform, R&D, Solutions Engineering, reliability, security, etc - this involves working closely with other internal teams

o Provide leadership, coach, mentor and develop direct reports and develop high performing teams that deliver continuous improvement, add value and reduce costs.

o Regular tracking and reporting of program/project KPI's, progress and performance

o Set goals, provide feedback, and oversee the day-to-day operations of the team

o Establish regular 1-1 meetings with engineering team members to provide consistent feedback

o Manage attrition and drive merit-based promotions

o Support Recruitment and Training working in collaboration with the Directors of Engineering

o Onboard new employees and coach them on internal processes

o Own hiring process and collaborate with internal and external recruiters to attract and identify the best talent globally

Key Activities

Manage a team of individuals working on multiple products across locations, ensuring that they are fully supported and are enabled to deliver to their commitments

Provide clear leadership and vision, inspire, and motivate staff to achieve excellence, and mentor them as they develop new skills

Performance review meetings

1-1 feedback sessions

What You Will Have:

An engineering background - either development or testing, but decided to put more energy into leadership skills

o A passion for technology striving for the highest standards in quality of the software

o Experience of both traditional-hosted and cloud-hosted products

o Led effective delivery of multiple projects or teams in a highly dynamic, fast-paced

software development environment

o A people-oriented leader, able to model and cultivate a collaborative culture of ownership, delivering while being fair and having fun

o Outstanding communication skills and the ability to explain technical issues to people at various skill levels

o Hired or designed hiring processes for Engineering roles

o Excellent decision-making, strategic planning, time management and problemsolving skills

Should

o Have experience working in a SaaS/product company

o Know the meaning of typical SaaS & Engineering metrics (e.g. MRR, churn, lead time, MTTR, velocity, etc.) and having the ability to incorporate them into the daily life of the team

o Have experience managing remote teams and working in a remote team

Additional Skills

o A strong commitment to fostering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the team

o Extensive experience of tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub

o Identify and measure team health indicators

Competencies

o Technology focused, agnostic to tools, adaptable to change in technology

o Work closely with architects and developers to strategize product vision

o Mentor and guide the squads on technical excellence

o Champion for automation of repeatable tasks

o Recruitment and training