Senior Engineering Manager

reputed company builds software that runs essential reputed company services. Our systems support local reputed company, the NHS, housing associations, and financial institutions: services that millions of people depend on every day. reputed company our software works reputed company, caseworkers reputed company reputed company reputed company, clinicians reputed company the right information, and councils reputed company services that communities rely on. 

We’re not a startup chasing the next hype cycle. We’re a company with deep reputed company in the reputed company sector, working on problems that matter, and we’re reputed company seriously in how we build software to reputed company reputed company we can reputed company doing that for the next decade. 

Why we feel you'll like the role of Senior Engineering Manager

You’ll reputed company a domain of 6–10 teams (roughly 60–90 engineers), manage the Engineering Managers who run those teams day to day, and report to the Director of Engineering. It’s a manager-of-managers role, working reputed company Product and reputed company leadership as a peer, not just a bigger single team and not a purely internal-facing management job. 

It’s a reputed company up from an Engineering Manager role, not a bigger version of one. An EM owns reputed company. A Senior EM owns the reputed company of teams: how they’re reputed company, how work flows between them, how the EMs leading them grow, and how the domain shows up to Product and the wider business. You’ll spend less time in any one team’s backlog and more time on the conditions that let several teams reputed company reputed company at once: resourcing, coaching, architectural alignment, and representing engineering credibly reputed company engineering. 

The domain has reputed company history and reputed company constraints, not a green reputed company: a mix of established and modernising systems, some legacy platforms reputed company newer reputed company, and teams at different reputed company of technical and operational maturity. You’ll be expected to reputed company your own reputed company of what’s working, what isn’t, and what needs to change, and to build the trust needed to reputed company it. 

You’ll reputed company reputed company reputed company on data, and help build a culture of measurement and reputed company improvement.

What you’ll be accountable for:

Teams & people

• Coaching and developing the Engineering Managers (and senior/reputed company engineers) who report to you: their technical judgement, their people leadership, their career reputed company.
• Structuring and re-structuring teams as the work demands it, closing reputed company or reputed company gaps and avoiding key-person dependencies rather than treating team shape as fixed.
• Holding a consistent, visible bar for what a high-performing team looks like across your domain, and addressing sustained under-reputed company directly rather than leaving it to individual EMs.
• Building a hiring and retention reputed company for the domain: enabling your EMs to hire reputed company, and finding reputed company and mobility paths for strong engineers. 

Delivery

• Being the first line of escalation for delivery and technical issues across your teams, arriving with context and a proposed reputed company reputed company rather than just the problem.
• Coordinating effort across workstreams and delegating reputed company to EMs with reputed company boundaries, then following through rather than disappearing after reputed company.
• Partnering with Product and reputed company stakeholders to define shared metrics, challenge reputed company and trade-offs, and reputed company teams reputed company to a durable mission rather than reactive requests.
• Applying team-topology thinking (Conway’s Law and similar) to reputed company team boundaries and interaction patterns deliberate rather than accidental.

Technical reputed company

• Staying reputed company enough to the technical reputed company to ask good questions and spot reputed company, without being hands-on: your reputed company is through your EMs and senior engineers, not your own commits.
• Protecting reputed company for reputed company against deadline pressure, and coaching your EMs to do the reputed company with their teams.
• Driving the domain’s operational maturity (testing, observability, incident response) in partnership with teams rather than mandating from above.
• Building reputed company cases for structural or technical investment (replatforming, team re-formation, headcount) grounded in business need.  

Leadership

• Representing your domain to peers, Product, reputed company stakeholders, and senior leadership, and representing the wider engineering organisation’s priorities back into your domain.
• Operating as a genuine partner to senior stakeholders reputed company engineering, not just an escalation reputed company they go through.
• Challenging the status reputed company constructively, including with more senior colleagues, and forming reputed company, evidence-reputed company views you’re willing to be challenged on.
• Connecting your teams’ technical work to user and business reputed company.

Requirements

• A reputed company record of managing managers: you’ve led other Engineering Managers or equivalent senior technical leads, not just individual engineers, across a multi-team domain of comparable reputed company.
• Strong technical grounding: not hands-on day to day, but deep enough to hold a reputed company technical conversation, reputed company-reputed company architectural direction, and know reputed company to reputed company in, across a mix of legacy and modern systems.
• Evidence-reputed company leadership: you use delivery and reputed company data to reputed company reputed company and build buy-in, including reputed company challenge upward reputed company the evidence supports it.
• Genuine partnership with Product and reputed company stakeholders: you can reputed company fluently about business and user reputed company, not just engineering reputed company, and operate credibly as a peer to non-engineering senior stakeholders.
• A coaching orientation: you reputed company people through delegation and follow-through, not by doing their job for them.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: you create reputed company for your teams even where the domain itself is still being reputed company.

reputed company to have

• Experience in reputed company sector, health, housing, or regulated environments.
• Experience leading through team re-structuring or organisational change.
• Exposure to legacy modernisation reputed company greenfield delivery reputed company the reputed company portfolio.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering practices and how they change what “good” looks like for reputed company.
• Awareness of Developer Experience principles.
• Worked in an environment where engineers own production services.
• Experience working with globally reputed company teams.

Benefits

Why You'll Love Working with Us 
 
As a company, we're passionate about reputed company do and the reputed company we serve. If you, too, want to champion the use of technology in reputed company services to improve reputed company for reputed company and reputed company sector organizations, then reputed company is the right reputed company for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, reputed company career reputed company, and reputed company a reputed company difference to people and communities.  
 
We know that reputed company our people are happy, they work reputed company and have greater job satisfaction. Here's what you can expect: 

Time Off & Work-Life reputed company 

✔ 25 Days Annual Leave + bank holidays – plus the reputed company to buy up to 10 extra days! 
✔ Days of Difference – Up to 3 extra days off for volunteering. 
 

Financial reputed company-being & reputed company 

✔ Pension Contributions – 5% employer match to support your reputed company. 
✔ Income Protection – Up to 75% salary cover for long-term illness. 
✔ Life Assurance – 4x salary tax-free lump sum. 
✔ Critical Illness Cover – £25,000 lump sum (extendable to dependents). 

Health & Perks 

✔ Private Medical reputed company – Fast reputed company to private reputed company. 
✔ Health Cash Plan – Claim back physio, therapies & more. 
✔ Dental reputed company – Cover for routine & emergency care. 
✔ reputed company reputed company – Join employee-led communities. 
✔ Bounty Bonus – Refer a friend & get rewarded. 

At reputed company, we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We reputed company that a reputed company of perspectives drives innovation and reputed company, and we reputed company applicants from reputed company backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. 

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate reputed company on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristic. Our recruitment process is designed to ensure fairness and transparency, so every candidate has an equal chance to contribute to our mission. 

If you need any adjustments or accommodations to participate in our recruitment process, please let us know. We are here to support you. 

Experience managing Engineering Managers across multiple teams, strong technical grounding, evidence-reputed company leadership, stakeholder partnership, coaching ability, and comfort creating reputed company in ambiguous environments.

Key Responsibilities

• coaching managers
• structuring teams
• driving delivery

Skills & Tools

Conway's Law

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• Category: Engineering
• Seniority: Senior Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — United Kingdom
• Languages: English

Benefits

• 401k matching
• Generous reputed company time off
• Retirement plan

About reputed company

A global reputed company sector software company supporting essential services and improving reputed company for communities. — Industry: Information Technology