Software Engineering Manager

Description

As a Software Engineering Manager you willlead highly skilled multi-disciplinary engineering teams within a substantial global technology organisation delivering market-leading insurance and reserving solutions.

You will play an important role in our continued evolution from desktop and on-premise products to modern cloud and SaaS platforms helping teams build secure reliable scalable and user-centred software while continuously improving engineering effectiveness developer experience and ways of working.

Engineering excellence is about more than producing great code. It is about creating the environment practices and feedback loops that enable teams to deliver valuable software safely predictably and sustainably. You will encourage continuous learning thoughtful use of engineering metrics high standards of quality and reliability and responsible adoption of modern practices such as AI-assisted software delivery automation secure development and Dev Sec Ops .

You willbring astrong background in software engineering with experience delivering complex commercial applications across a range of technologies andwill have progressed into technical leadership and people management. Youwillhave a successful track recordof leading engineering teams building inclusive andhigh-performing cultures improving delivery flow and balancing speed with quality security reliability and role combines technical credibility with strategic and operational leadership stakeholder management team engagement recruitment organisational design continuous improvement and is astrong opportunity foran established technical leador engineering leader who is ready to take thenext step intobroaderengineering management in a collaborative and supportive environment.

The Role

As an Engineering Manager you will:

• Be accountable for the development release and continuous improvement of reserving products ensuring teams deliver high-quality outcomes through appropriate Agile product-oriented or flow-based delivery approaches.
• Coach mentor and develop engineers fostering an inclusive collaborative and psychologically safe culture focused on quality learning accountability and sustainable delivery.
• Partner with Architects Senior Engineers Product Platform Security and Operations teams to assess technology options and define robust scalable secure and maintainable architectures that support cloud/SaaS evolution modern user experiences and product innovation.
• Provide delivery and technical troubleshooting support using sound judgement people leadership and data to unblock issues manage risks and identify systemic improvements.
• Enable a data-informed engineering culture by using meaningful delivery quality reliability customer and developer-experience metrics to identify bottlenecks improve team flow and guide continuous improvement.
• Recruit onboard develop and retain high-calibre software engineers identifying training needs supporting career development and recommending improvements to team structures and operating models.
• Oversee development quality assurance security and governance processes recommending improvements to the practices automation and tooling that support secure and reliable software delivery.
• Promote responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools and automation ensuring productivity improvements are balanced with human review maintainability security compliance and clear engineering standards.

• Champion developer experience by reducing unnecessary friction improving documentation encouraging reusable patterns and supporting appropriate self-service engineering practices.

What youll bring

The essential skills/experience for this position are:

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary Agile product-oriented or flow-based engineering teams delivering complex maintainable and commercially valuable software solutions.
• Practical experience across the full software development lifecycle in a commercial or production environment including discovery and requirements analysis estimation architecture and design implementation testing deployment maintenance and operational support.
• Strong practical understanding of modern software engineering principles including maintainable architecture automated testing CI/CD secure-by-design practices observability and reliability.
• Successful track record of growing teams and leading transformation initiatives across engineering effectiveness Agile or flow-based delivery people development cloud/SaaS adoption Dev Sec Ops  and…