Requirements

• 2+ years experience in engineering management of product-aligned teams.
• Technical background to drive technical choices and great interpersonal skills to communicate with Product Managers and client representatives.
• Knowledge and experience in designing, developing, and maintaining security for modern technology stacks similar to the stack used at Thought Machine (AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Go/Python).
• You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves.

Desirable

• Experience in defining roadmaps, technical architecture, and deliverables.
• Experience in balancing risk management with company objectives and opportunities.
• Awareness and experience with “well-architected” security frameworks such as CSA-CCM, OWASP SAMM, or similar cloud, infrastructure, or application security frameworks.
• Existing experience building and operating security for distributed systems at scale.
• You’ve previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.
• You’ve previously taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.
• Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc).

What You'll Be Doing

• Working with your team closely on defining and delivering our security engineering roadmap.
• Actively participate in technical discussions and design reviews.
• Measuring your team’s impact.
• Contributing to product strategy.
• Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes.
• Operate collaboratively with other Thought Machine teams with trust and influence.
• Develop engineers in your team and help them in their career development.
• Leading by example: Code reviews and hands-on technical work.

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, subsidised 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