Senior Engineering Manager

🕒 August 7

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Civica US

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Civica US is a global leader in public sector software, providing solutions that help deliver critical services for citizens around the world. The company's software is utilized by over 5,000 public bodies globally, supporting more than 100 million citizens. Civica's products are designed to serve government departments, justice and court systems, education institutions, and health and care providers. Their capabilities include cloud and digital services, data analytics, financial management, people management, and governance risk compliance. As a GovTech company, Civica US specializes in creating software that improves outcomes and efficiencies across various public sector domains, aiding in administrative processes, data management, and citizen engagement.

📋 Description

• Lead a domain of 6–10 teams comprising roughly 60–90 engineers. • Manage the Engineering Managers responsible for day-to-day team leadership and report to the Director of Engineering. • Coach and develop Engineering Managers and senior/lead engineers in technical judgement, people leadership, and career growth. • Structure and restructure teams to address skill or capacity gaps and avoid key-person dependencies. • Maintain a consistent standard for high-performing teams and address sustained under-performance. • Build hiring and retention capability, including enabling Engineering Managers to hire effectively and creating growth and mobility paths. • Act as the first escalation point for delivery and technical issues across teams. • Coordinate workstreams, delegate decisions with clear boundaries, and follow through on execution. • Partner with Product and commercial stakeholders on metrics, scope, trade-offs, and durable missions. • Apply team-topology principles to shape team boundaries and interaction patterns. • Stay sufficiently close to technical detail to assess architecture and identify drift without being hands-on. • Protect software quality against deadline pressure. • Drive operational maturity in testing, observability, and incident response. • Build evidence-based business cases for replatforming, team re-formation, and headcount investment. • Represent the domain to engineering peers, Product, commercial stakeholders, and senior leadership. • Connect technical work to user and business outcomes.

🎯 Requirements

• Track record of managing managers, such as Engineering Managers or equivalent senior technical leads, across a comparable multi-team domain. • Strong technical grounding sufficient for technical conversations, architectural sense-checking, and intervention across legacy and modern systems. • Evidence-based leadership using delivery and quality data to make decisions and build buy-in. • Ability to constructively challenge upward when supported by evidence. • Genuine partnership with Product and commercial stakeholders, with fluency in business and user outcomes. • Ability to operate credibly as a peer to senior non-engineering stakeholders. • Coaching orientation focused on delegation and follow-through. • Comfort with ambiguity and ability to create clarity for teams. • Public sector, health, housing, or regulated-environment experience is nice to have. • Experience leading team restructuring or organisational change is nice to have. • Exposure to legacy modernisation alongside greenfield delivery is nice to have. • Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering practices is nice to have. • Awareness of Developer Experience principles is nice to have. • Experience in environments where engineers own production services is nice to have. • Experience working with globally distributed teams is nice to have.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave + bank holidays • Option to buy up to 10 extra days • Days of Difference – Up to 3 extra days off for volunteering • Pension Contributions – 5% employer match • Income Protection – Up to 75% salary cover for long-term illness • Life Assurance – 4x salary tax-free lump sum • Critical Illness Cover – £25,000 lump sum, extendable to dependents • Private Medical Insurance • Health Cash Plan covering physio, therapies & more • Dental Insurance • Affinity Groups • Bounty Bonus for referring a friend • Inclusive and diverse workplace • Recruitment adjustments or accommodations available