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Software Engineering Manager
£100,000 - 100,000
Adria Solutions
M60 2TQ, Manchester
£100,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Significant senior leadership experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams (circa 20).
- Proven ability to build, inspire and scale high-performing teams.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience aligning technology to business growth.
- Deep technical knowledge and a hands-on engineering background.
- Experience operating at executive level and influencing senior stakeholders.
- A track record of delivering secure, scalable platforms in regulated or complex environments (financial services experience desirable).
- Gravitas, energy and the confidence to influence at CEO level.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute a clear engineering strategy aligned to business growth and revenue objectives.
- Partner with the CEO and executive team to ensure technology investment delivers measurable commercial value.
- Drive performance, efficiency and scalability across the 20-person engineering function.
- Own budget, resource planning and cost management within engineering.
- Lead, mentor and energise a team of approximately 20.
- Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Develop leadership capability within the engineering management layer.
- Foster an environment that attracts, retains and develops top technical talent.
- Oversee the design and delivery of secure, scalable, high-quality digital platforms.
- Ensure best-in-class Agile, DevOps and modern software engineering practices.
- Maintain hands-on credibility with strong technical depth and architectural understanding.
- Drive engineering KPIs focused on quality, velocity, stability and customer impact.
- Work closely with the Chief Architect to ensure architectural vision is effectively implemented.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Operations and Commercial teams.
- Translate complex technical strategy into clear business language for executive stakeholders.
- Constructively challenge senior leaders where appropriate to ensure optimal outcomes.
Description
We are a progressive and ambitious organization looking for an exceptional Software Engineering Manager to lead, energize and elevate our engineering function of approximately 20. This pivotal executive-level role involves working closely with our Chief Architect and reporting directly to the CEO, contributing to our technical direction and commercial outcomes. We offer a dynamic work environment, 28 days of holiday, healthcare benefits, and a hybrid working model.
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