Engineering Manager

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

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the City of London is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a talented team of engineers. In this role, you will strategize and implement high-quality engineering initiatives, ensuring alignment with product delivery goals. We require a candidate with robust leadership skills and experience in designing scalable systems. This position offers an excellent opportunity to make impactful contributions within a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience of building and designing scalable systems.
• Proven leadership experience managing skilled engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers in high-quality product delivery.
• Design and implement engineering strategies with the team.
• Coach the team for high performance and stakeholder management.
• Identify and eliminate challenges for optimal performance.
• Maintain team culture focusing on high performance.

Skills

Leadership skills

Software development lifecycle knowledge

Experience with microservice architectures

Containerisation expertise

Observability tooling usage

Job description

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.

• 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.

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.