Engineering Manager

Oceanic Catering; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Oceanic Catering in Glasgow is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow software delivery teams across multiple locations. You will own onboarding, performance reviews, and career development while nurturing a culture of collaboration, ownership, and wellbeing.

You will oversee engineering output and quality across squads, collaborating with development partners to improve delivery reliability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering management and people leadership of software delivery teams.
• Experience managing delivery alongside outsourced / offshore development partners.
• Strong technical credibility, with a background in software engineering.
• Excellent coaching, performance management and team-building skills.
• Experience working effectively with offshore, outsourced and remote teams across different time zones and cultures.
• Glasgow-based, with a minimum of three days per week onsite in the Glasgow office.
• Experience in maritime, ERP, or multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Experience scaling engineering teams and squad structures.
• Familiarity with agile at scale and cloud-native delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop engineers across one or more squads, building a high-performing in-house engineering function across locations.
• Own onboarding, performance management and career development for the team.
• Foster a strong engineering culture of collaboration, ownership and wellbeing.
• Provide oversight of engineering output and quality across squads, working with partners.
• Build in-house management capability and improve delivery by moving away from reliance on external partners.
• Uphold engineering standards, code quality and delivery predictability.
• Partner with Product, QA, DevOps and partners to deliver ShipSure and remove blockers.
• Scale the squad and Engineering Manager structure as needed, managing delivery risk.

Skills

Engineering management

People leadership

Offshore/remote collaboration

Software engineering

Coaching & performance

Cross-time-zone collaboration

Agile at scale

Cloud-native

Onsite Glasgow

Job description

Team Leadership & People Management

• Line-manage and develop engineers across one or more squads, building a high-performing in-house engineering across multiple locations.
• Own onboarding, performance management and career development.
• Foster a strong engineering culture of collaboration, ownership and wellbeing.

Delivery Oversight & Quality

• Provide oversight of engineering output and quality across squads working with development partners.
• Build in-house management capability, improving on the mixed results previously delivered by the development partner.
• Uphold engineering standards, code quality and delivery predictability.

Collaboration & Scaling

• Partner with Product, QA, DevOps and development partners to deliver ShipSure.
• Remove blockers and manage delivery risk at squad level, escalating where needed.
• Contribute to scaling the squad and Engineering Manager structure as it is confirmed.

• Proven experience in engineering management and people leadership of software delivery teams.
• Experience managing delivery alongside outsourced / offshore development partners.
• Strong technical credibility, with a background in software engineering.
• Excellent coaching, performance management and team-building skills.
• Experience working effectively with offshore, outsourced and remote teams across different time zones and cultures.
• Glasgow-based, with a minimum of three days per week onsite in the Glasgow office.

• Experience in maritime, ERP, or multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Experience scaling engineering teams and squad structures.
• Familiarity with agile at scale and cloud-native delivery.