Engineering Manager/Platform Lead

You will be joining Platforms team within Enterprise Digital and be responsible for one or two squads whose goal is to make life for the development teams in other parts of the business easier by providing a set of low friction, fully managed cloud capabilities and abstracting these complexities away from the developer - allowing them to focus on code and not infrastructure. Your squads will focus on building IAC (Infrastructure as Code) using non-traditional tools such as Pulumi and implementing capabilities that allow developers to develop and deploy to the cloud faster and securely. And as a hands-on Engineering Manager, your code will lead by example and your teams will look up to you for strategic and technical leadership. You will be a confident solutions designer, able to communicate complex ideas clearly at various levels of the organization and skilled in working with multi-skilled teams to come up with workable solutions You will be a great collaborator working with your counterparts and other Engineering Managers within other Platform teams to ensure that our cloud capabilities are first class and provide the best experience to developers each day. You and your teams will also collaborate closely with engineering teams across the tribes -understanding their requirements and building out capabilities to support it.

What you will be doing

Lead, grow and hire a team of engineers that develop best-in-breed tooling and IAC capabilities that allow developers to go from idea to production in 12 minutes or less

Create and Lead strategy for a roadmap that caters to the needs of the business and developers.

Remove manual implementation from workflows and look to automate as much as possible.

Provide mentorship and career support for the members of your teams - maximising their potential.

Agile champion for your teams, taking pride in a metrics-based organisation that looks to continually improve itself.

Skills

A fast learner - Our work within Platforms is varied and we work across the full developer lifecycle.

Passion for automation with a reluctance for manual implementation

4+ years of experience in building software products in Typescript. Java is a bonus.

2+ years of experience in a team leadership position where you were responsible for career growth and mentorship of team members.

An appreciation for working in the cloud and an understanding of cloud principles. We will provide opportunities for AWS training, but bonus points for already having that experience.

3+ years of experience with agile systems development methodologies

3+ years' experience with cloud computing on AWS.

Bonus is experience with DevOps tools, process and culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

10% on target bonus

Life Assurance

Pension scheme