Engineering Delivery Lead — Scale a High-Impact Dev Team

VIQU Ltd; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Morela is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead its Glasgow engineering delivery centre. You will own the team of early-career developers, turning them into a high-performing unit over 6–12 months and scaling as cohorts grow.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on throughput, quality and people development, with two Project Managers reporting to you to keep delivery aligned with engineering outcomes.

Qualifications

• Directly managing development or engineering teams with visible impact on throughput and quality.
• Strong grounding in SDLC, engineering standards, code review and QA practices.
• Experience coaching junior or graduate engineers into productive team members.
• Technical credibility to lead engineers even if not coding daily.
• Experience scaling a team and its processes as it grows.

Responsibilities

• Own developer throughput and flow, removing blockers and building a predictable delivery cadence.
• Drive engineering quality and defect reduction across everything the team ships.
• Define and embed development standards and the SDLC from ticket to production.
• Establish strong peer review and QA practices.
• Introduce engineering metrics and use them to drive continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop junior engineers with hands-on guidance and clear career paths.
• Scale the team and its ways of working as new graduate cohorts join.
• Lead the two Project Managers to align project and engineering delivery.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

SDLC knowledge

Code review

Coaching juniors

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Morela is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead its Glasgow engineering delivery centre. You will own the team of early-career developers, turning them into a high-performing unit over 6–12 months and scaling as cohorts grow.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on throughput, quality and people development, with two Project Managers reporting to you to keep delivery aligned with engineering outcomes.