Engineering Manager

Simplyhealth; Winchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Simplyhealth is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead multiple squads and shape technical direction for scalable software in the UK. You will work with Lead Software Engineers, Architects and Product Managers to deliver secure, reliable digital health solutions.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes coaching, performance development and collaboration to drive business outcomes while maintaining high engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Ability to translate business goals into technical strategy.
• Strong people management and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop software engineers and technical leaders.
• Build healthy, high-performing teams empowered to deliver.
• Set and drive technical direction across squads for scalable solutions.
• Balance roadmap delivery with technical debt, resilience and security.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern practices and DevOps.
• Improve delivery through agile methods like Scrum and Kanban.
• Collaborate with Product, Delivery and Architecture teams on priorities.
• Manage technical risks, dependencies and cross-team trade-offs.
• Champion continuous improvement across engineering capabilities and tooling.
• Stay current with emerging technologies that create business value.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Agile methodologies

Scrum

Kanban

DevOps

Architecture direction

Stakeholder management

Security awareness

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.