Engineering Manager - Data Management & Storage Job Location: UK Flexible location (Remote) Salary: £45,680 to £48,527 per annum Hours: 35 per week Contract Type: Permanent Could you be responsible for leading and managing a team of technical engineers who deliver databases, data platform, and data storage services to the British Red Cross (BRC), ensuring our staff, volunteers, supporters, and our service users enjoy a positive and consistent experience whether working remotely, at home, from an International office, or a UK site? Can you help deliver our ambitious transformation and improvements programme, modernising IT infrastructure and helping BRC to unlock the potential of Microsoft cloud services, reducing our cost to service and improving our user experience, resilience, and security? What will a Engineering Manager's job involve? Grow a healthy, inclusive, and diverse collaborative engineering culture in line with our values. Identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them, through health-checks with the team and provoke the right responses. Establish, deliver, and refine the engineering roadmap to ensure that our databases, data platform services, and products remain current, deliver value and supports the needs of the organisation. Forecast and plan delivery cycles to coordinate and optimise the delivery flow of the team, delivering value for our users. Instil excellence and continuously improve the processes, methodologies, standards, and technology choices embraced by the team. Define and track measurable goals and their outcomes such as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Provide leadership during incidents with production services, with clear communication to stakeholders; and identifying and supporting the people who are resolving the issue. Review incident reports, document periodic trend summaries, and provide updates and recommend best practices to leadership. What will an Engineering Manager need to be successful? Growth mindset that constantly challenges how we deliver and operate today. Strong knowledge of project planning and resource management tools and techniques to manage progress, resourcing, budget, and scope. A natural problem solver with a strong sense of autonomy, able to plan complex engineering activities and resolve dependencies and problems. Self-aware with a high level of emotional intelligence. Excellent communication skills, able to communicate clearly and concisely with database administrators, engineers, designers, architects, managers, and senior leaders. Experience managing an engineering team within a modern enterprise DevOps organisation using databases, storage technologies, data platforms and services, including but not limited to Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Azure SQL, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Strong recent technical background enabling you to empathise and lead the database administrators and engineers. Focused upon delivering quality, performant, reliable, secure, and maintainable services. Expertise in various staffing and resource models, including third-party managed services, partnering, and staff augmentation. The closing date for completed applications is 23:59hrs on Monday the 10th of March 2025 with interviews to follow Please apply early, as we’ll be reviewing candidates throughout. We reserve the right to close the ad in advance of the published date. In return for your dedication and expertise, you’ll get: • Holidays: 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) option to buy 5 extra days. • Pension scheme: Up to 6% contributory pension. • Flexible working: We do our best to accommodate your preferred work style. • Learning & Development: Wide range of career opportunities comprehensive learning. • Discounts: Access to Blue Light Discount Card and employee benefits platform. • Wellbeing Assistance: Access to mental health and wellbeing assistance. • Team Working: Champion our mission in a collaborative team. We are proud to participate in the disability confident scheme for roles based in the UK. During the application process, you will be asked if you wish to apply under the scheme. Together, we are the world's emergency responders. About The Candidate About The Company