Software Engineering Manager

Reed Exhibitions; Richmond; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is searching for a Software Engineering Manager to ensure software innovations are delivered successfully. This role involves managing technical teams and ensuring quality assurance across all software development processes. Candidates should have experience leading cross-functional teams and a broad knowledge of technical solutions, security, and performance testing.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Access to pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning and development resources

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional teams with solution design oversight.
• Knowledge of Security, Quality Assurance, Performance Testing, and Cloud Hosting.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical excellence across solution design and development processes.
• Develop teams to improve efficiency and service excellence.
• Ensure technical standards and security practices are adopted.

Skills

Leadership

Technical Excellence

Problem Solving

Interpersonal Communication

Job description

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Software Engineering Manager
Would you like to ensure the successful delivery of software innovations?
Do you enjoy creating a collaborative and customer focused working environment?

About our Team

RX Global aims to create unforgettable experiences for attendees and exhibitors through organizing exhibitions that help them build their businesses. Digital Innovation, creativity, and collaboration drive the company to offer exceptional services to clients.

This Role is part of the RX Digital Team that creates and supports our digital platform and products used by RX exhibitions customers. Using industry leading technologies and digital tooling, we provide a fully integrated toolset and enables the rapid deployment of innovation at scale, data analytics and standard methodologies across the global business

About the Role

You will manage staff responsible for technical excellence assurance covering technical solution design and improving the quality of the software & the development process. Areas covered include platform and solution design, security, quality assurance, performance & reliability and DevOps.

You will analyse and align product roadmaps, organisational and industry updates to support defining and executing the Technical Excellence standards and roadmap to design and deliver high quality solutions that are compliant, secure and reliable.

You will develop teams to help Reed Exhibitions be more efficient and provide a high level of service excellence. The position is additionally expected to report progress to senior management.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with direct reports and various stakeholders to support the development and maintenance of the technical roadmap, ensuring roadmap planning is well thought out technically and will be successful.
• Providing effective line management to direct reports and contract staff under their area and acting as an independent escalation point.
• Promoting and maintaining a high performance culture, fostering a One Team mentality and we're all in this together.
• Participating in the definition and leading the implementation of technical standards, and performing reviews to ensure architectural standards and processes are followed.
• Ensuring security practices and standards are adopted within development practice and acceptance criteria, with regular security testing is scheduled across all products.
• Collaborating with team on platform architecture, cross functional requirements and complex data models.
• Ensuring production deployments are achieved with the minimum to zero down time to end users.
• Ensuring continuous improvement of engineering practices and operational processes.

Requirements

• Demonstrate experience in leading and managing cross functional teams with responsibility for solution design oversight, security, quality and performance.
• Demonstrate experience working with 2-3 large scale platforms and global businesses, with technical oversight across 5+ workstreams.
• Experience of onshore, nearshore and offshore models with mixed partners.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Architecture frameworks and principals.
• Demonstrate a broad knowledge of Security, Quality Assurance, Performance Testing, Cloud Hosting and DevSecOps.
• Demonstrate problem solving and leading/co-ordinating people across teams as necessary to troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues and get beyond symptoms to identifying root cause.
• Experience with cloud based hosting and container solutions, Devops and cost/efficiency optimisations.
• Demonstrate solid interpersonal communication and presentation skills.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Life assurance
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Optional Dental Insurance
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
- Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
- Access to extensive learning and development resources
- Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About the Business

RX is in the business of building businesses for individuals, communities and organisations. We elevate the power of face-to-face events by combining data and digital products to help customers learn about markets, source products and complete transactions at over 400 events in 22 countries across 43 industry sectors. RX is passionate about making a positive impact on society and is fully committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our people. RX is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers