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Engineering Manager

Job Posted: 21 days ago

Salary: £ 100,000 - 110,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire

Expire in: 6 days

Job Description

Engineering Manager | Hybrid (Portsmouth)

Clearance: SC (British Citizens only)

Salary: £100,000-£110,000

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and shape a high-performing software engineering capability delivering modern, secure, cloud-native digital services within a highly regulated environment.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical direction, people leadership, and delivery oversight. You will be responsible for setting engineering standards, driving technical excellence, and ensuring consistent delivery across multiple multidisciplinary teams.

You will play a key role in defining how modern software is built, ensuring robust, scalable and secure systems are delivered in line with strict governance and security requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and grow a software engineering practice, defining standards, frameworks and ways of working 
Own engineering delivery across multiple workstreams in a complex programme environment 
Provide technical leadership across cloud-native architectures, microservices and API-led systems 
Oversee design and delivery of secure, scalable software solutions 
Work closely with senior stakeholders to translate operational and business needs into technical delivery 
Drive engineering governance, ensuring alignment with security, compliance and architectural standards 
Mentor and develop engineers and technical leads, raising overall capability across teams 
Establish reusable engineering patterns, CI/CD pipelines and best practice delivery frameworks  

We are looking for:

Proven experience leading software engineering teams in complex, multi-system environments 
Strong background in AWS or Azure, microservices and modern API-led architecture 
Experience delivering software in UK Defence, government or other highly regulated sectors 
Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation and secure coding 
Excellent leadership, coaching and stakeholder management skills 
Familiarity with MOD security standards and accreditation processes 
Experience with event-driven architecture and Domain Driven Design (DDD) 
Background in hands-on software engineering or technical delivery leadership

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