Engineering Manager

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Performance Management (SFIA Level 4 PEMT):

• Provides operational direction, support and guidance to assigned colleagues.
• Allocates routine tasks or project work, in line with team objectives and individual capabilities.
• Monitors quality and performance against agreed criteria to make learning recommendations or to escalate concerns.
• Coaches colleagues in developing target skills and capabilities in line with team and personal goals.
• Facilitates effective working relationships between team members.

Employee Experience (SFIA Level 5 EEXP):

• Implements working practices that motivate employees and support their health and wellbeing.
• Guides individuals on long-term development goals and career opportunities, considering an individual's strengths and preferences.
• Communicates business direction, policy and purpose where these may drive or affect employee engagement.
• Ensures clear communication of delegated tasks and provides sufficient autonomy to motivate and empower individuals.
• Maintains awareness of the physical and emotional welfare of employees, and provides counselling when required.

Professional Development (SFIA Level 5 PDSV):

• Determines development needs for a professional practice area.
• Aligns development activities with organisational priorities, learning and development strategies and career pathways.
• Guides practitioners in creating development plans.
• Advises and supports assigned practitioners, ensuring alignment with professional development plans and career opportunities.
• Ensures practitioners record evidence of continuing professional development.
• Contributes to practitioners' performance appraisals, when required.

Resourcing (SFIA Level 4 RESC):

• Facilitates and supports the execution of resourcing activities in collaboration with managers and teams.
• Analyses resource requests to determine tasks, skills and effort required.
• Creates and communicates open positions internally and externally.
• Conducts interviews and assessments using a planned format and structure.
• Implements internal resource allocation matching skills to tasks.
• Contributes to transitioning of resources, complying with relevant statutory or external regulations and codes of practice.

Delivery Management (SFIA Level 4 DEMG):

• Manages the delivery of products or services for small to medium-sized initiatives.
• Applies appropriate delivery methodologies and tools.
• Establishes and leads delivery teams, creating a collaborative and productive working environment.
• Manages the prioritisation of work items, leads iteration planning processes and ensures value is delivered incrementally throughout the delivery cycle.
• Communicates delivery progress, risks and issues to stakeholders.
• Ensures the quality of deliverables.
• Participates in reviews and contributes to the continuous improvement of delivery processes within the scope of the team or initiative.

Solution Architecture (SFIA Level 5 ARCH)

• Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures appropriate technical resources are made available.
• Ensures appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
• Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration.
• Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
• Ensures relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security and cost management) are applied correctly.

Programming/Software Development (SFIA Level 5 PROG):

• Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
• Plans and drives software construction activities.
• Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques.
• Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards and guidelines for software development.

Requirements Definition and Management (SFIA Level 4 REQM):

• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Contributes to selecting the requirements approach.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
• Establishes requirements baselines or backlogs, obtains appropriate agreement to requirements and ensures traceability to source.

Software Design (SFIA Level 5 SWDN):

• Specifies, designs and architects large or complex software applications, components and modules.
• Adopts and adapts software design methods, tools and techniques. Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
• Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision-making.
• Evaluates software designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action.
• Ensures the software design balances functional, quality, security and systems management requirements.
• Contributes to the development of organisational software design and architecture policies and standards

Testing (SFIA Level 4 TEST):

• Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing.
• Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks.
• Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage.
• Identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing.
• Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including the work of others.

Release Management (SFIA Level 5 RELM):

• Develops and maintains release approaches, processes and automation tools.
• Oversees the planning and scheduling of complex, large-scale releases.
• Coordinates release activities across multiple projects and programmes.
• Ensures release processes and procedures are applied, and that releases can be rolled back as needed.
• Communicates release approaches and outcomes.
• Conducts post-release analysis and drives continuous improvement.

Systems Integration and Build (SFIA Level 5 SINT):

• Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration.
• Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework.
• Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration.
• Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design.
• Assesses risks and takes preventative action.
• Measures and monitors applications of standards.
• Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards and guidelines for systems integration.

Application Support (SFIA Level 5 ASUP):

• Ensures all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.
• Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support, incorporating security considerations.
• Manages application enhancements to improve business performance.
• Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups and disaster recovery needs.

Systems Design (SFIA Level 4 DESN):

• Designs system components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
• Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders and to handle functional and non-functional requirements.
• Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed system components to enable approval by stakeholders.
• Produces detailed design specifications to form the basis for the construction of systems.
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.

Personal Capability Building:

• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfil personal potential.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• Proven experience as a Digital and/or Integration Technical Consultant.
• Strong understanding of Java and/or Apigee technologies.
• Experience with integrations, Apigee preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud services.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
• Certifications in Java and/or Apigee are a plus.