Senior Project/Engineering Manager
Listed on 2026-09-09
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Software Development
Location: Northern
Senior Project / Engineering Manager (#5582)
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Our client provides comprehensive operational support and a range of expert services to the world's leading insurers, brokers, fleet managers and automotive manufacturers. 3,300 employees across ten countries deliver exceptional standards on a large scale for over 1,200 clients. We help the global insurance market to handle millions of claims each year in the most cost-effective and efficient ways possible.
We are looking for a Senior Project / Engineering Manager to lead delivery across three cross-functional development teams within the client's transformation program. This is a senior but hands-on leadership role: you will own delivery milestones end-to-end, keep the teams unblocked and moving, and work closely with Product Managers and Architects to ensure the expected functionality is delivered on time and to a high standard.
You will act as a key delivery interface to client stakeholders in the EU and UK, translating business priorities into an executable plan and reporting reliable, defensible status against it.
Requirements:
- 6+ years in software delivery, including proven experience as a Senior Project Manager, Engineering Manager, or Delivery Lead owning complex, multi-team engagements
- Experience with in the software development / engineering / outsourcing industry is a must
- Track record of end-to-end ownership of delivery milestones - planning, forecasting, tracking, and reporting with a strong delivery-predictability focus
- Genuinely hands-on leadership style: comfortable operating at both the strategic and day-to-day level, close enough to the work to make and unblock decisions
- Experience coordinating multiple teams and work streams with dependencies between them
- Practical command of Agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban) alongside project- and program-management practices, and the judgement to blend them pragmatically
- Solid technical grounding - enough to engage credibly with Architects on solution design, microservice architecture principles, REST APIs and integrations, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and engineering trade-offs
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills, including direct ownership of senior client relationships across time zones (EU, UK)
- Proficiency with Jira and Confluence (or comparable delivery and documentation tooling)
- Excellent English communication skills, comfortable with both technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to Have:
- Experience supporting a platform consolidation, migration, or feature-parity initiative
- Background in enterprise / B2B SaaS, multi-tenant platforms, or the insurance / Insur Tech domain
- Certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PSM/CSM, SAFe, or equivalent
- Knowledge of engineering quality practices - clean code, SOLID, TDD and test tooling, change and release management
- Experience with AI-assisted development and delivery tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor)
Responsibilities:
- Own delivery across three cross-functional development teams - accountable for scope, timeline, quality, and predictability of committed milestones
- Own delivery milestones end-to‑end: plan, sequence, track, and report progress, surfacing risks early and driving corrective action
- Stay hands‑on day‑to‑day: identify and remove blockers and impediments, drive delivery decisions, and keep momentum across the teams
- Coordinate dependencies, sequencing, and priorities across the three teams and adjacent work streams
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