Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Civica, a leading provider of software solutions for public services, as a Senior Engineering Manager. You will lead and manage multiple engineering teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality products to customers. This role involves hiring, coaching, and mentoring software engineers and managers, setting technical vision, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will also collaborate with product colleagues and senior stakeholders to align engineering efforts with company goals.

Requirements

• Experience in recruiting, coaching and mentoring software engineers and managers
• A technical background, able to engage with software engineers on a technical level and contribute to technical decision making
• Strong knowledge of modern software development practices such as agile development, continuous delivery, automated testing, security, and observability
• Expertise implementing engineering metrics to drive quality and performance
• Comfortable with ambiguity, and able to create clarity for your teams

Responsibilities

• Hire, build and manage multiple teams of successful & happy software engineers
• Enabling your teams for success, ensuring delivery of high-quality products to our customers
• Set and communicate clear priorities and a strategy that contribute to Civica’s goals
• Help to set the long-term technical vision for your teams, and contribute to the wider Civica Engineering vision
• Embody good engineering culture, and drive great behaviours in your teams
• Develop and align processes and decision-making across teams
• Aligning engineering efforts with product colleagues & other senior stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Awareness of Developer Experience principles and practices
• Experience modernising legacy software
• Worked in an environment where engineers own production services