About the Role:
The Software Engineering Manager will play a key leadership role within the Engineering function, reporting directly to the Director of Engineering. This position is responsible for leading multiple agile engineering teams, ensuring high-quality software delivery aligned with business goals.
The role focuses on team development, resource planning, and driving technical excellence across the engineering function. The successful candidate will be a strong communicator, capable of working closely with Product Management, Architects, and other stakeholders to deliver the product roadmap while instilling best practices in engineering, documentation, and operational support.
As a pivotal member of the leadership team within the Belfast Centre of Excellence, the Software Engineering Manager will foster a collaborative, high-performance culture and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, organisational growth, and operational success.
Responsibilities:
- Drive team performance through product delivery to meet business needs.
- Develop effective teams of skilled professionals providing direction and coaching of agile working practices.
- Build strong relationships engaging with peers and other colleagues working to common purposes from within the IT function and the wider business.
- Expected to understand the business needs and lead your team to support delivery of the Product Roadmap.
Skills and Experience:
- 10 years industry experience with a minimum of 5 years’ experience building and leading Technical Agile Engineering Team(s)
- Delivering and maintaining capacity planning across multiple your engineering teams
- Capable of building highly scalable production software
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Expertise in mobile and web-technologies
- Aptitude for problem solving, with the ability to apply logic and experience to assist with the development of solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Benefits:
- Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays
- Ability to buy and sell holiday days as well as the ability to bank days (tenure dependant)
- Flexible working options: we are operating a hybrid working model with 3 days a week from the office
- Pension: Hargreaves Lansdown – up to 6% matched contribution
- Employee share scheme
- Generous family friendly cover
- Private healthcare - Bupa
- Income protection
- Critical illness cover
- Life insurance cover
- Dental cover
- Optical cover
- Yulife app for access to employee wellbeing and discounts
- Perks at Work, cashback/discount shopping site
- Employee referral scheme
- Salary sacrifice program which includes cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme and season ticket loans
- Volunteering program
- Company events i.e. Christmas party, all-company event and other social/hosted events during the year (we have an active social committee!)
- Team socials
