Senior Engineering Manager

Flutter UK & Ireland; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the sports experience industry where you will provide tactical and strategic leadership across multiple projects. You will be responsible for developing a high-performing team, promoting accountability, and driving quality improvements while ensuring employee engagement in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Twice-yearly bonus

Unlimited holiday

Hybrid working

Access to Udemy courses

Company Sharesave Scheme

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading and developing teams on sophisticated software projects.
• Experience with Agile methods for software delivery.
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight to multi-disciplinary teams.
• Lead the product lifecycle and manage delivery risks.
• Foster collaborative relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Agile methodologies

Technical management

Analytical skills

Job description

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You will be an integral part of the UK&I Sports Experience Tribe, providing tactical and strategic leadership, oversight, and direction to multi-disciplinary team members across multiple projects. You should have a solid technical and managerial background, proven problem-solving skills, and be a strong technical and organizational leader with a positive attitude, capable of working in a fast-paced environment.

What you’ll do

• Work closely with key business customers, stakeholders, external partners, and all groups within the Technology organization to implement, evolve, support, and be responsible for the software and system components to appropriate quality standards within Flutter UKI’s infrastructure.
• Clearly communicate and promote strategies, roadmaps, dependencies, and plans for products.
• Lead the product lifecycle and be responsible for managing all delivery risks.
• Handle all technical resources and capacity plans within budget and project schedule.
• Foster an open-source approach and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with other Senior Managers.
• Lead, encourage, empower, and line manage a team composed of several multi-disciplinary software development teams and Managers.
• Coach, hold 1-to-1s, set and review objectives, appraise performance, and assist with career development, ensuring effective performance management.
• Help build a ‘delivery with high quality’ culture that emphasizes accountability and results.
• Achieve and sustain employee engagement.
• Serve as liaison between the delivery team and key stakeholders.
• Continuously improve processes through automation of common procedures and implementation of standards, processes, and checklists.
• Prioritize tasks throughout all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Actively measure and review the efficiency, velocity, quality, and duration of delivery, taking timely corrective actions where necessary.

How you’ll do it

• Proven track record of leading and developing teams on sophisticated software projects.
• Experience with Agile methods for software delivery.
• Experience working with distributed, redundant, and transactional systems and testing these systems.
• Leading the development of a team by ensuring project tasks align with each team member's career interests where possible.
• Ability to effectively lead a team consisting of multiple disciplines.
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, particularly regarding technical risks, issues, and constraints.
• Ability to lead and empower others.
• Demonstrate senior principles, leading by example in work ethic and professional attitude.
• Ability to project manage work and prioritize effectively.
• Team player who strives to maximize team and departmental performance.

What’s on offer

• Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed!)
• Unlimited holiday
• Hybrid working
• Access to thousands of Udemy courses
• Investment via the Company Sharesave Scheme

About Flutter UK & Ireland

Our division operates four of the most popular and trusted brands in the market: Sky Betting and Gaming, Tombola, Betfair, and Paddy Power.

Together, the Flutter UK & I brands offer market-leading entertainment to millions of customers every week. Over the last decades, they have pioneered digital betting innovations like ‘cash-out’, ‘Request a Bet’, betting exchanges, and free-to-play games like Soccer Saturday Super 6.

Working here

Do you want to work somewhere extraordinary? From the people you spend your days with to ground-breaking projects, no two days will be the same.

With a philosophy of ‘Together We Are More’, our 7,000+ colleagues form an expert community across technology, product, commercial, data, infrastructure, marketing, and other areas.

We listen without judgment, encourage & support, and help build others up. Working at Flutter UK&I means you can be yourself, work how and where suits you best—and let your personality shine!

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you, let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.