Engineering Manager

Role title: Engineering Manager

Function: Digital Technology & Data

Reports to: Principal Engineering Manager

Number of reports: Circa 20

Work level: WL5

Role Summary

The role of Engineering Manager is to provide pastoral care and develop our engineering talent and help build an inclusive community of high-performing individuals who are deployed into interdisciplinary technology teams. Ensure we have a highly trained and capable workforce via recruitment, training, development and effective career progression. Make sure they are assigned to the right things and well supported in their roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting, coaching and developing up to 20 engineers at all levels of experience, through regular 1:1s, continuous feedback and relationships with team leads
• Partnering with engineers in your area to drive technical initiatives that raise the bar for our engineering practices
• Attracting and retaining talent, ensuring we have an effective and successful recruitment process and are retaining talent in the organisation
• Training and development to ensure our engineering colleagues are technically capable of fulfilling their roles and our engineering best practices and standards are applied.
• Supporting the career progression framework that nurtures and develops our own talent and increases the diversity of our engineering practice
• Building external reputation of engineering capability at Co-op

Knowledge, Skills, Experience

• Experience managing the performance and development of 8+ high-performing engineers, including seniors and tech leads.
• Previously worked as an engineer at a senior level with excellent knowledge of modern software engineering best practices (e.g. agile software development, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean, Kanban, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Test Driven Development (TDD), pairing/mobbing, clean code, functional programming/OO).
• Experience with software architecture, design patterns and design principles.
• Experience coaching, training and mentoring engineering staff. Experience with attraction and recruitment of engineering staff

We know that some candidates are less likely to apply for a role if they don't meet all the criteria in the job description. At Co-op, where we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive working environment, so if you'd like to apply for this role but your experience doesn't quite meet every point, we'd still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or other roles we have available.