Engineering Manager - AI-Driven Tech Leader (Hybrid)

Velociti Solutions; Chadderton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Life assurance

Income protection

Pension scheme

25 days holiday

Christmas shutdown leave

Birthday leave

Hybrid working

EV car scheme

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

Velociti Solutions in Oldham is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers, drive deliverables, and shape architectural decisions. You will maintain technical depth to guide design choices, establish coding standards, and coach junior developers while embedding AI-assisted tools into daily practice.

This role emphasizes collaboration with product and project teams and risk management to meet delivery timescales.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing or leading a team of developers with 1:1s and objective setting.
• Extensive full-stack development skills: front-end (JS frameworks) and back-end (.NET).
• Experience working with an AI augmented environment.
• Experience delivering low-latency, API-driven web services and responsive web applications.

Responsibilities

• Guide technical direction and architecture for your area with well-reasoned decisions.
• Line-manage a team of ~7 software engineers with regular 1:1s and performance reviews.
• Define and uphold coding standards and best practices across the team.
• Act as escalation point for production/technical incidents and drive root-cause analysis.
• Translate product priorities into a technical roadmap and ensure timely delivery.
• Maintain and publish technical documentation across the SDLC.
• Foster culture of code/architecture reviews, learning and knowledge sharing.
• Develop understanding and use of AI within the engineering team.
• Support other teams to meet privacy, security and regulatory standards.
• Coach and mentor junior/mid-level developers and support their career development.
• Plan workload against delivery timescales and shape team working practices.
• Undertake additional duties as reasonably required.

Skills

Team leadership

Full-stack development

AI augmented development

API-driven web services

Clear communication

Mentoring & feedback

Job description

Velociti Solutions in Oldham is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers, drive deliverables, and shape architectural decisions. You will maintain technical depth to guide design choices, establish coding standards, and coach junior developers while embedding AI-assisted tools into daily practice.

This role emphasizes collaboration with product and project teams and risk management to meet delivery timescales.