Engineering Manager - Provisioning

Requirements

• 2+ years experience of engineering management in platform teams

• Experience of working in a cloud-native environment, using modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, golang/python).

• Technical background to drive technical decisions and great interpersonal skills to drive communication with your users. You should enjoy working in environments where you have a high level of responsibility and autonomy.

• You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves.

• You have experience developing platforms and tools that are used by other engineers either internally or externally.

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in or managing internal platform teams

• Previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.

• Taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.

• Previously worked in a hyper-growth environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Actively participating in technical discussions and design reviews.

• Taking a data-driven approach and measuring your team’s impact with the data you can collect directly from your users.

• Understanding the needs, challenges, and impediments of internal teams so you can identify solutions and measure success

• Contributing to the vision and strategy of your platform area, aligning it with broader engineering and business goals.

• Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes.

• Develop engineers in your team and help them in their career development.

• Leading by example: Code reviews and hands-on technical work

• Championing industry best practices and emerging trends to keep our team ahead of the curve.

Perks and Benefits

• Highly competitive salary

• Pension plan (match up to 5%)

• Life insurance - three times annual salary

• Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)

• Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)

• 25 days holiday and bank holidays

• Flexible working hours

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• Electric car scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses

• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidized by Thought Machine

• All the latest tech you need

• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals

• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies, and drinks

• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues

• An environment where we encourage learning and progress

• Two charity days a year

• Weekly food pop-up