Engineering Manager - Lead Global, Distributed Dev Teams

International Baccalaureate; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits allowance

Pension contribution

Annual leave

Life cover

Flexible hours

Volunteer leave

CPD

Job summary

The International Baccalaureate in Cardiff seeks an Engineering Manager to lead business-critical development projects within the Student Ops engineering team. You will oversee offshore engineers, coordinate globally, and ensure delivery meets stakeholder needs across internal and external partners.

You will drive agile delivery, manage releases, vendor relationships and budgets while coaching team members to sustain high performance across locations and time zones.

Qualifications

• Experience leading globally distributed teams.
• Extensive understanding of software development practices and the software development lifecycle.
• Proven experience managing development teams across project delivery and production support.
• Experience leading globally distributed teams and working across locations and time zones.
• Scrum Master experience; Scrum Master certification is preferred.
• Experience managing external service providers and supplier relationships.
• Experience with software management tools such as Azure.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with stakeholders.
• Strong organisational, multitasking, analytical and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage, plan, coordinate and track product engineering delivery across change requests and projects.
• Lead internal and external software development teams and drive Scrum ceremonies.
• Coordinate with delivery managers, stakeholders and IT support for readiness and transition to BAU.
• Prepare and coordinate release activities, risk management and communications; weekend work may be required.
• Assess and select suppliers and monitor performance and SLAs.
• Coach and develop team members, ensuring staffing and capability.
• Remove impediments to progress and manage technology costs and budgets.

Skills

Distributed teams leadership

SDLC understanding

Production support experience

Stakeholder communication

Scrum Master experience

Vendor management

Analytical skills

Reporting skills

Tools

Azure

Job description

The International Baccalaureate in Cardiff seeks an Engineering Manager to lead business-critical development projects within the Student Ops engineering team. You will oversee offshore engineers, coordinate globally, and ensure delivery meets stakeholder needs across internal and external partners.

You will drive agile delivery, manage releases, vendor relationships and budgets while coaching team members to sustain high performance across locations and time zones.