Engineering Manager

NatWest Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of skilled engineers. In this role, you'll be responsible for building high-quality products, coaching your team, and fostering a high-performance culture. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills, experience with scalable systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure. This position represents an excellent opportunity for seasoned professionals to contribute to impactful technology investment within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience building and designing scalable and performant systems.
• Experience leading a team of highly skilled engineers.
• Strong understanding of microservice architectures and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to build products with high quality.
• Plan and prioritise technology investment initiatives with product owner.
• Coach team to ensure performance and predictability.

Skills

Leadership skills

Software development lifecycle knowledge

Microservice architectures

Containerisation

Cloud infrastructure

Observability tooling

Job description

Join us as an Engineering Manager

• In this key role, you’ll be leading a team of talented and creative engineers to build products
• We’ll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact
• It’s a great opportunity to be recognised for your expertise and knowledge as you contribute to the bank-wide strategy

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be implementing and deploying engineering work with the team. You’ll work closely with the team’s product owner and delivery manager to plan and prioritise impactful technology investment initiatives.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Working with our staff engineers, making sure the team delivers the highest standards of technical design and implementation
• Coaching your team to maintain a high level of delivery performance and predictability, while managing the expectations of stakeholders
• Identifying and eliminating challenges, enabling the engineers to perform
• Supporting your team to ensure the services under your ownership meet defined SLOs agreed in collaboration with your product peers
• Developing talent and maintaining a supportive and engaging team culture that’s focused on high performance

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of building and designing scalable and performant systems and making significant contributions to the wider engineering goals of an organisation. We’ll look to you to have excellent leadership skills and experience of leading a team of highly skilled engineers.

You’ll also have:

• Strong practical and theoretical knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Experience with microservice architectures utilising event driven/sourced patterns
• Experience of containerisation and cloud infrastructure
• Experience employing observability tooling to monitor and detect proactively disruptions to the live service