Engineering Manager

Signify Technology; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 125,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Signify Technology is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams across CI/CD, platform features and AI. The role requires a clear vision, practical roadmapping, and strong leadership to drive a digital transformation within a large Dutch organisation.

Hybrid role based in the Netherlands with 1-2 days onsite in Utrecht or Amsterdam. You will shape scope, align engineering with business goals, and foster a high-performance culture while delivering on ambitious technology

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading multiple teams, ideally across platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Ability to step in, take ownership and determine what needs to happen.
• Strong people leadership: coaching, building team culture and developing engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple engineering teams (CI/CD, Platform Features & AI) to deliver on the programme.
• Set a clear vision and practical roadmap, guiding execution amid ambiguity.
• Collaborate across teams during digital transformation and organisational restructuring.

Skills

People leadership

CI/CD

Databases

Messaging

AI/ML exposure

Roadmap development

Cross-team collaboration

Vision setting

Job description

Job title: Engineering Manager (CI/CD, Platform Features & AI)

Job type: Contract

Contract Length: 12-24 months

Rate: €110+ per hour

Role Location: Hybrid - Utrecht or Amsterdam (1-2 days per week onsite). Candidates must be NL based and speak Dutch + English

The Company

A large, well-known global organisation working on transformation programmes

Role And Responsibilities

Signify have partnered up with an established organisation to hire an Engineering Manager as the company scales its Dutch capabilities. This is a people-first leadership role covering multiple engineering teams:

• CI/CD team
• Features team, covering databases and messaging
• AI team, which you are likely to inherit as the function grows

You will help shape its scope as you go as part of their digital transformation programme while the business reshapes it's whole technology function with new cutting edge technologies. You will be someone who can set a clear vision, bring order to ambiguity and fill in the blanks.

Job Requirements

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading multiple teams, ideally across platform or infrastructure engineering
• Has “done it all before” and can step in, take ownership and work out what needs to happen.
• Strong people leadership: coaching, building team culture and developing engineers
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change, not someone who needs everything settled before they start
• Clear vision and the ability to turn it into a practical roadmap
• Solid technical grounding in CI/CD, databases and messaging; exposure to AI/ML teams or tooling is a plus
• Confident turning product and business requirements into technical direction
• A team player who collaborates well across teams and is curious about where the wider organisation is heading
• Must be based in the Netherlands and speak Dutch + English

Interview Process

2 stage interview process

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