Engineering Manager

Simplyhealth; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplyhealth is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering squads in delivering high-quality, secure and scalable software for UK health solutions. You will work with Lead Software Engineers, Architects and Product Managers to balance people leadership, technical direction and delivery excellence.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on coaching engineers, building high-performing teams, driving architectural alignment, managing risk, and advancing DevOps and agile practices to

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop software engineers and technical leaders, supporting their performance, progression and career growth.
• Build healthy, high-performing teams that are empowered to deliver.
• Set and drive technical direction across squads, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure and aligned to wider architectural goals.
• Balance roadmap delivery with technical debt, resilience, security and long-term platform sustainability.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern software development practices, quality engineering principles and DevOps approaches.
• Improve delivery effectiveness through agile ways of working, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Collaborate with Product, Delivery and Architecture teams to ensure engineering effort is focused on the highest-value outcomes.
• Manage technical risks, dependencies and cross-team trade-offs while providing clear stakeholder communication.
• Champion continuous improvement across engineering capability, tooling, standards and ways of working.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, practices and methodologies that can create value for the business.

Job description

At Simplyhealth, we're on a mission to improve access to healthcare for all in the UK. As an Engineering Manager, you'll play a key role in helping us deliver innovative digital health solutions that make a real difference to our customers.

You'll lead multiple engineering squads, creating the conditions for teams to thrive while ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure and scalable software. Working closely with Lead Software Engineers, Architects, Product Managers, Delivery Managers and other stakeholders, you'll balance people leadership, technical direction and delivery excellence to achieve outstanding business outcomes.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll:

• Lead, coach and develop software engineers and technical leaders, supporting their performance, progression and career growth.
• Build healthy, high-performing teams that are empowered to deliver.
• Set and drive technical direction across squads, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure and aligned to wider architectural goals.
• Balance roadmap delivery with technical debt, resilience, security and long-term platform sustainability.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern software development practices, quality engineering principles and DevOps approaches.
• Improve delivery effectiveness through agile ways of working, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Collaborate with Product, Delivery and Architecture teams to ensure engineering effort is focused on the highest-value outcomes.
• Manage technical risks, dependencies and cross-team trade-offs while providing clear stakeholder communication.
• Champion continuous improvement across engineering capability, tooling, standards and ways of working.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, practices and methodologies that can create value for the business.