Role: Engineering Manager
Team: Web Development
Location: Remote first; with fortnightly to monthly face-to-face in Gloucester, occasionally Liverpool, London, and Romania
Tech: Blazor, C#, Azure, ADO, HTML, CSS. Moq, NUnit, bUnit, Playwright.
As one of the largest insurance groups in the world and the fifth largest employee-owned business in the UK, we manage premiums on behalf of millions of clients across a wide range of product offerings and our development team work on solutions that innovate and put the users' needs at the forefront.
Role
As an Engineering Manager at Howden, you will become part of and lead two agile teams. You will harness you people-first approach and agile coaching to help our teams grow and strive for high performance.
You will participate in regular agile sessions, collaborating closely with your team to deliver our roadmap whilst supporting each engineer (typically ~10 direct reports) in their teams to help them grow, build resilience, solve challenges, and provide them with access to training needs whilst encouraging and adopting best practices.
This is a role suited to technical people leaders but there is no direct coding needed.
As part of our leadership team and reporting to the Head of Web Development you will attend and facilitate leadership sessions, community of practice sessions in a particular discipline e.g. UI/UX or QA, foster cross team collaboration, and be responsible for and support hiring needs across the group.
About you:
* A keen understanding of the broader technological landscape.
* You will have a strong understanding of people leadership and how to get the best out of a team and know how to measure this.
* A keen eye for detail and a focus our putting users first
* An understanding of accessibility needs and relevant standards.
* Deeply understands the value in Test-driven Development and group programming activities.
* You have had strong understanding of Azure Cloud technologies.
* A strong communicator and able to seek feedback early and often.
* A bias towards action.
* An experimental and scientific mindset leading to data-led decision making.
* An understanding of agile development methodologies, particularly scrum and kanban.
* The value of continuous delivery practices and iterative development (CI/CD)
* Delivering on observability and monitoring capabilities
* Previous experience of people leadership and agile coaching.
Rewards:
We believe that great work and dedication should be rewarded, that's why we offer:
* 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), pro-rated for part year service
* A set of core benefits, designed with your health and financial protection in mind:
o Life Assurance up to 4x salary, protecting your loved ones in case the worst should happen
o Income protection, guaranteeing an income for up to 5 years in the event of an illness or injury
o Contributory pension scheme - 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution, rising to 5% & 5% in April 2025
o Access to a Healthcare Cashplan, which gives you access to a variety of health related benefits
* Access to a host of lifestyle and financial benefits that you can choose from:
o Discounts on gym membership across the UK
o Salary sacrifice schemes - Travel Insurance, Cycle to Work, Car leasing, Technology purchase
o Access to discounted personal health policies - Critical illness, private medical, dental plans
o A range of insurance products available commission free, including home, motor, travel and specialist vehicles
o Access to hundreds of high-street retailer discounts
o Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support employees outside of work