Engineer Manager

Job Description

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation. Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues. Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers Job Summary Reporting into the Head of Engineering, and working directly within Product teams, the Engineer Manager will manage a cross functional agile team, responsible for building and running their application stack. With a hands-on approach, the Engineering Manageris expected to guide and help the team as required, ensuring the team deliver the desired outcomes. Working closely with Product Owners, the Engineering Manager will act as servant leader for the team, ensuring agile frameworks are followed (such as Scrum),facilitating daily standups and sprint planning, being a critical conduit for prioritisation, work assessment and managing blockers/issues to deliver value and outcomes. The role holder will also take an active role in managing the total cost of ownership of their application/software stack, working with the Product Owner ensuring that finances, licensing and vendor management are all pro-actively management inline with companyframeworks and policies. They will also be responsible for day to day management of individuals, carrying out regular one-on-ones, performance reviews and personal development plans What Youll Do Leadership

• Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team fostering collaboration, and ensuring high-performance outcomes.
• Responsible for effective strategies for people development, talent management and succession planning throughout their engineering team
• Create a culture of continuous improvement, engineering excellence and innovation, and the adoption of modern technologies and best practices for your assigned engineering team

Delivery

• Own agile rituals, such as the role of Scrum master
• Collaborate closely with your team product owner and business teams to help define, prioritise and implementation of new features and capabilities for the systems, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Add value to the engineering team by actively contributing to the delivery of business outcomes. For example, hands on coding, configuration, etc
• Collaborate with peer Engineering Managers to ensure end-to-end solution delivery and integration.
• Drive the agile product engineering process, including requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, and deployment, to deliver high-quality software solutions

Quality

• Oversee the operation and maintenance of their systems, ensuring their stability, scalability, and performance in accordance with service level agreements. Effectively managing operational risks across their engineering team.

Finance and Supplier Management

• Financial control of their assigned Engineering Team cost centre(s), including managing and differentiating between run and change elements,
• Supplier management for their Engineering Team

Measurement

• Define and track departmental and team-level OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), driving engineering team accountability and ensure alignment with targets and strategic goals

Who You Are Core Skills

• Technical
• Source code management
• Deployment Automation
• Continuous Integration (Continuous Deployment)
• Test Automation
• Shift left on Security
• Monitoring and alerting
• Familiar with a variety of programming languages and tools

Non-Technical

• Delivery Methodology experience (Agile and Waterfall)
• Budget / Cost Centre Management
• Proven leadership skills including influencing, coaching and a delivery focussed mind-set
• People Management
• Analytical skills, experience in assessing information solutions and products
• Strong stakeholder management skills. Works to understand and meet stakeholder objectives
• Positively influences key senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts
• Ability to prioritise and plan complex work, and respond to a changing environment
• Facilitation skills, ability to elicit pertinent information.
• Results orientated
• Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude
• Experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions
• Collaborative approach, ability to drive consensus through discussion, presentation of facts and negotiation

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Technical certification advantageous

Benefits of working at Canada LifeWe believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package thats regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, youll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pensionand bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development. How we work at Canada LifeOur culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationshipswe have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward. We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. Thats why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop. Diversity and inclusionBuilding an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progres