Engineering Manager

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Act as a direct line manager for a group of Development Leads and/or Senior Analyst Developers. Take responsibility for the overall performance of all reports under your organizational structure.
• Promote a culture of excellence in the development team through monitoring and analysis of key metrics and KPIs. Maintain an accurate and balanced narrative that explains project and individual metrics. Set goals and manage the development team to improve.
• Assist the Head of Development in setting and maintaining a technical roadmap for the solution center that ensures constant improvement to codebase health, developer tooling and process.
• Be a key contact person and point of escalation for technical issues in the solution center. Be involved in discussions that influence planning and technical direction.
• Assist the wider solution center leadership team by having active involvement in recruitment of new team members through assessment centers, interviews and other recruitment and market engagement events from time to time.
• Support the Head of Development when representing the solution center in client engagements from time to time.
• Have input into project resourcing based on your knowledge of the skill set of each developer in the department.
• Implement personalized performance improvement plans where required, both within the department, and in conjunction with HR.
• Identify opportunities for developer training. Use the wide range of tools and media at our disposal to implement training programmes to improve the skills of the team.
• Look for and implement improvements to the development process, including measuring and improving build, code check-in, CI, release, and deployment processes.
• Work closely with Development Leads in the solution center to provide them with coaching and mentorship.
• Work within the wider solution center management team to ensure staff work-life balance is maintained at an overall healthy level. This includes tracking excessive amounts of overtime and high leave balances.
• Ensure seamless and efficient onboarding of new starters. ensure new starters complete required training programme(s) within expected timeframes. Define and enhance processes and help facilitate internships and any graduate programme related activities as required.
• Ensure that developers have the best hardware, software and tooling they can have to do their jobs well. Identify areas for improvement and propose change.
• Hold every member of the development team to a high standard of adherence to coding standards and best practice. Assist the Head of Development and the wider technical leadership team in defining new standards and practices and driving improvements to existing ones.

Functional Area Responsibilities

• Development team process and compliance.
• Career progression.
• Team performance.

Experience required

Industry Knowledge

• First class bachelors degree or higher and/or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working on large scale technology delivery projects and successfully delivering technology change as part of these projects.
• Confident, and able to take a lead role in a delivery-focused environment.
• Experience of working with different levels of stakeholders within a project environment.
• Expert in the FNZ platform, technologies and delivery methodologies
• Experience with line management in large scale technology organisations, with a passion for helping people reach their career aspirations and achieve their goals.
• Independent, self-directing working style.
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry.
• Enjoy working as part of a high-performance team.
• Hard-working, innovative and takes pride in their work.
• Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.

Required Knowledge & Skills

• Expert in Microsoft .NET development products, including .NET, C# and SQL Server.
• Expert in web development, including ASP.NET, JavaScript and ReactJS.
• Experience with the following legacy development products would be beneficial: ASP.NET MVC, VB.NET, legacy .NET Framework versions.
• Understanding of financial products and markets.
• Understanding of web services.
• Familiar with code analysis or automated testing tools.