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Engineering Manager

London, United Kingdom
Engineering Manager
American Express
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How will you make an impact in this role?
 
Engineering Impacts:
  • Lead a team of savvy engineers whom are responsible for developing complex, large scale applications
  • Partner with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
  •  Help guide and improve engineering practices across teams (eg. code reviews, build and release processes or the effectiveness of scrum ceremonies)
  • Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
  • Apply any specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to team initiatives, helping to identify complex and/or broad problems and formulate recommendations
  • Collaborate with leadership across teams to define solutions that drive greater software maturity and practices
Leadership Impacts
  • People Leader to software engineering team, including junior and mid-level colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to other senior-level colleagues in team(s) 
  •  Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
  • Drive the team’s technical improvements and roadmap
  • Take accountability for the technical maturity of the team
  • Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
  • Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
  • Work with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team
Day to Day Responsibilities:
  • People leader for a high functioning team of engineers reporting to an Engineering Director who is responsible for multiple teams.
  •  Lead and mentor teams of engineers through ongoing development efforts
  •  Formal people-leadership responsibilities for 4-8+ engineers
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
  • Proven experience in active engineering
  • Demonstrated leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
  • Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an agile product environmen
  • Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices (eg. Scrum/Kanban, sprint iterations, user stories)
  • Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
Engineering & Architecture
  • Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
  • Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
  •  Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
  • Engaged with the broader technology community (e.g. open source, public speaking, technical forums)

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