Remote Engineering Manager: Lead Architecture & Teams

Pearson Carter; Greater London; Remote; GBP 57,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote working

Annual performance bonus

Company pension

Health & wellbeing programme

Company events

Ongoing training and professional开发 ?

Job summary

Pearson Carter are recruiting an Engineering Manager to lead multiple product teams in a fully remote UK role, guiding delivery, architecture and governance. You will mentor engineers, shape engineering strategy, and collaborate with product management to drive scalable platforms.

The role requires strong leadership, hands-on C#/.NET expertise and a track record of delivering secure, resilient software in cloud environments. Remote UK work offers flexibility and career-growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and managing software engineering teams within a modern product organisation.
• Excellent experience across C#/.NET development experience.
• Strong experience with software architecture and system design.
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud-native application development.
• Experience working with modern web and API-based platforms at scale.
• Strong understanding of security, performance, resilience and operational best practices.
• Excellent coaching, mentoring and people leadership skills.
• Experience working closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, best practices and delivery processes.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach to technical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and mentor software engineers across multiple product areas.
• Build a high-performing engineering team and create a culture of quality, ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Support the recruitment, onboarding and career development of engineers.
• Work closely with technical leadership to define and maintain target architecture for digital platforms.
• Establish architectural principles, design standards and technical guardrails.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable and aligned with business objectives.
• Guide major technical decisions and architectural reviews.
• Work closely with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities into deliverable outcomes.
• Improve engineering predictability, planning accuracy and release confidence.
• Drive improvements across CI/CD, automated testing, observability and operational resilience.
• Ensure technical debt, platform investment and non-functional requirements are managed appropriately alongside feature delivery.
• Champion secure software development practices and support compliance, security and governance requirements.
• Lead technical responses to incidents, root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Partner with Product, Delivery, Support and Professional Services teams.
• Provide technical input into strategic initiatives and customer engagements.
• Help the wider organisation make informed technology decisions through clear communication and pragmatic leadership.

Skills

Leadership

C#/.NET

Software architecture

Cloud-native

Web/API platforms

Security & resilience

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Job description

Pearson Carter are recruiting an Engineering Manager to lead multiple product teams in a fully remote UK role, guiding delivery, architecture and governance. You will mentor engineers, shape engineering strategy, and collaborate with product management to drive scalable platforms.

The role requires strong leadership, hands-on C#/.NET expertise and a track record of delivering secure, resilient software in cloud environments. Remote UK work offers flexibility and career-growth opportunities.