Hybrid AI Engineering Manager — Lead High-Impact Teams

The Citation Group; Wilmslow; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank holidays

Birthday day off

Post-wedding leave

Family support

Healthcare plan

Job summary

The Citation Group is seeking an accomplished engineering leader to guide multiple teams in delivering secure, scalable software at pace. You will drive modern engineering practices, AI-enabled capabilities, and DevOps maturity across products and delivery processes.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Architects and Tech Leads to shape direction, improve delivery, and coach teams to build, ship and operate software successfully.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading software engineering teams delivering production systems.
• Experience managing multiple teams or complex product-focused engineering organisations.
• Proven ability to develop engineers and tech leads, manage performance effectively and improve team health.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, high-quality products at pace.
• Provide technical leadership without bottlenecks, enabling strong engineering decisions across teams.
• Drive adoption of AI and automation within engineering workflows and product capabilities.
• Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to define outcomes, priorities, roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Establish clear standards for testing, release management, resilience and non-functional requirements.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Mentoring

Performance management

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in engineering

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Security awareness

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Azure

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & logging

Job description

The Citation Group is seeking an accomplished engineering leader to guide multiple teams in delivering secure, scalable software at pace. You will drive modern engineering practices, AI-enabled capabilities, and DevOps maturity across products and delivery processes.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Architects and Tech Leads to shape direction, improve delivery, and coach teams to build, ship and operate software successfully.