AI-Driven Senior Engineering Manager, Email Security

Mimecast

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 96,000 - 144,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Mimecast is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Email & Collaboration Threat Protection in London. You will lead one or more squads, owning delivery, quality, and team health while developing engineers and shaping the technical direction of critical threat protection platforms.

You will champion AI-augmented development, drive high standards, collaborate with Product Management, Security, and Operations, and ensure reliability across a globally distributed service handling 1.7B emails

Qualifications

6+ years of software development experience with progressive engineering leadership responsibilities.
2+ years in engineering management, directly line-managing a team of engineers.
Proven track record of leading a squad to deliver consistently, with evidence of improving execution quality and team health over time.
Strong record of turning product priorities into deliverable engineering plans and communicating credibly with product and engineering stakeholders.
Background in high-availability, mission-critical distributed systems, sufficient to lead credibly and contribute to technical decisions alongside senior engineers.
A solid hands-on software engineering background, giving you a credible technical foundation for leading a deep engineering team.
Experience with modern engineering practices: microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and monitoring/observability tooling.
Experience partnering with Product Management to drive roadmap execution and deliver customer value.
Excellent communication, collaboration, coaching, and mentoring skills, with a track record of building and sustaining a high‑performing team.
Experience delivering software in Agile environments with a strong understanding of DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

Own Squad Delivery: Lead one or more engineering squads with full accountability for delivery outcomes, team health, and day‑to‑day execution. Plan and manage the flow of work across sprints, remove blockers, and ensure your squad ships reliably against its roadmap commitments.
Develop Engineers: Line‑manage, coach, and grow the engineers on your team. Run regular one‑to‑ones, set clear goals, give honest feedback, and build deliberate development paths for individuals across levels. Identify and grow high‑potential talent.
Champion Engineering Excellence: Set and uphold high standards within your squad for code quality, testing, observability, release governance, incident response, and secure development practices. Own operational excellence on a zero‑downtime, globally distributed platform, including on‑call quality, post‑incident learning, and continuous reliability improvement.
Contribute to Technical Direction: Translate the roadmap and product priorities into a credible delivery plan for your squad. Contribute to technical design discussions and architecture decisions, and act as an informed engineering voice for Email & Collaboration Threat Protection within your group.
Champion AI‑Augmented Development: Drive adoption of AI development tools across your squad. Apply the team's governance for responsible AI usage and help measure productivity impact. Lead by example in building an AI‑enabled engineering culture.
Stakeholder Management: Partner with Product Management, and with Security and Operations counterparts, to align on priorities, resolve dependencies, and keep the roadmap grounded in what the team can realistically deliver. Communicate progress, risks, and trade‑offs clearly to your Director and to peers.
Operational Accountability: Own the reliability and performance of the services your squad runs. Our platform processes over 1.7 billion emails daily; you'll ensure robust monitoring, a healthy on‑call rotation, timely incident response, and follow‑through on post‑incident actions.
People Leadership: Contribute to hiring for your squad, including interviewing and levelling input. Manage performance decisively, address engagement and attrition signals early, and help build a team culture people want to be part of.