Engineering Manager - Lead AI-Driven Software Team (Hybrid)

Velociti Solutions; Oldham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life assurance

Company pension scheme

3 days paid leave for Christmas period

1 day's paid leave for birthday

Job summary

Velociti Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a software engineering team and drive delivery with strong architectural input. You will balance people leadership with hands-on technical guidance, orchestrating product and project work to meet delivery timescales.

You will embed AI-assisted development practices and uphold high standards in security, privacy and quality, while mentoring junior engineers and shaping a productive engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing or leading a team of developers, including 1:1s and objective setting.
• Extensive full-stack development skills: front-end (JS Frameworks) and back-end (dotnet).
• Experience working with an AI augmented environment.
• Able to communicate clearly, both verbal and written, with technical and non-technical audiences, presenting proposals and solutions, and to take end-to-end ownership of technical work.
• Comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Life assurance
• Company pension scheme
• 3 days paid leave for Christmas period shut-down
• 1 day's paid leave to celebrate birthday

Responsibilities

• Guide the technical direction and architecture for your area, ensuring key design decisions and trade-offs are made by the right people, well-reasoned and properly documented.
• Line-manage a team of c.7 software engineers: regular 1:1s, objective setting, performance reviews, and identifying and addressing performance challenges, providing further support where required.
• Define and uphold coding standards, patterns and best practice across the team, reviewing code to ensure delivery of reliable, secure and maintainable software.
• Act as the escalation point for production and technical incidents affecting your area, driving root-cause analysis and follow-up improvements.
• Represent engineering in cross-functional planning, translating product and business priorities into a realistic technical roadmap for the team.
• Own the quality and currency of the team's technical documentation, wikis and release notes across all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Establish and sustain a culture of code and architecture review, continuous learning and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Developing the understanding and use of AI within the engineering team.
• Support colleagues in other teams, ensuring that our software meets the required standards for privacy, security, compliance and regulation.
• Act as the first point of escalation for the team, coaching and mentoring junior and mid-level developers and supporting their career development.
• Plan and allocate team workload against delivery timescales.
• Shape team ethos and ways of working, embedding consistent engineering practices across the team.
• Undertake any additional duties as reasonably required.

Skills

Team leadership

Full-stack

AI augmentation

Communication

Ownership

Job description

Velociti Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a software engineering team and drive delivery with strong architectural input. You will balance people leadership with hands-on technical guidance, orchestrating product and project work to meet delivery timescales.

You will embed AI-assisted development practices and uphold high standards in security, privacy and quality, while mentoring junior engineers and shaping a productive engineering culture.