Engineering Manager

Simplyhealth; Reading; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplyhealth in Reading is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead multiple squads and shape the technical direction of our digital health solutions. You will balance people leadership with hands-on software delivery to create high-quality, scalable products.

Collaborate with Product, Delivery and Architecture teams, coach engineers, manage risks, and drive DevOps practices, agile ways of working, and ongoing improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software teams and delivering high-quality software.
• Hands-on leadership with ability to guide and mentor engineers.
• Familiarity with Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban) and DevOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop software engineers and technical leaders to improve performance and career growth.
• Build healthy, high-performing teams empowered to deliver.
• Set and drive technical direction across squads to ensure scalable, secure solutions.
• Balance roadmap delivery with technical debt, resilience, security and long-term platform sustainability.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern software development practices and quality engineering.
• Improve delivery effectiveness through agile ways of working (Scrum/Kanban).

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

DevOps

Agile methodologies

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.