Software Engineering Manager – Integration

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive integration and platform initiatives. You will shape the architecture and roadmap with senior engineers, build reusable components, and ensure reliable messaging across the estate.

Lead and develop teams to foster ownership and a strong engineering culture while balancing stability with transformation in a high-volume environment. Strong collaboration with vendors and platform partners is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in integration or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with IBM MQ, Azure Service Bus or similar messaging tech.
• Knowledge of ACE, MuleSoft, Azure Functions or Logic Apps.
• Experience with reliability engineering and incident management.
• Ability to balance operational stability with transformation in a high-volume environment.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for engineering excellence across integration teams from tech direction to service reliability.
• Lead and develop engineers to foster ownership and strong engineering culture.
• Define architecture and roadmap for the integration platform with Principal Engineers and Architects.
• Build platform capabilities including self-service integration patterns and reusable components.
• Maintain operational excellence across the messaging backbone with stability and fast incident resolution.
• Drive reliability improvements and reduce incident rates and operational burden.
• Partner with other engineering leaders to ensure consistency in patterns and ways of working.
• Own vendor relationships and third-party delivery focusing on outcomes and platform performance.
• Balance priorities across stability, platform modernisation, and technical debt reduction.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Messaging tech (IBM MQ/Azure Service"

Integration middleware

Platform modernisation

Reliability engineering

Leadership & communication

Servant leadership

Job description

Responsibilities

• Being accountable for engineering excellence across integration teams, from technical direction to operational performance and service reliability.
• Leading and developing engineers, cultivating ownership, accountability and a strong engineering culture.
• Defining the future integration platform architecture and roadmap in partnership with Principal Engineers and Architects.
• Building platform capabilities, including self-service integration patterns and reusable components to enable product teams.
• Maintaining operational excellence across the messaging backbone, ensuring stability, resilience and fast incident resolution.
• Driving improvements in reliability, reducing incident rates, mean time to resolution and operational burden.
• Partnering with other engineering leaders to ensure consistency in patterns, standards and ways of working.
• Owning vendor relationships and third-party delivery, focusing on outcomes and platform performance.
• Balancing priorities across operational stability, platform modernisation and technical debt reduction.

Requirements

• Experienced engineering leader with a background in integration or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, Azure Service Bus or similar.
• Strong knowledge of integration middleware including ACE, MuleSoft, Azure Functions or Logic Apps.
• Proven track record leading teams through platform modernisation or legacy-to-cloud transformation.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, including SLOs, observability, incident management and operational excellence.
• Ability to balance operational stability with transformation in a complex, high-volume environment.
• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• A servant-leadership mindset, focused on enabling teams and owning outcomes.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, from architecture discussions to incident support.