Engineering Manager

Role - Engineering Manager/ VP of Engineering

Location - London, UK (Hybrid)

Type - Permanent and Contract (Inside IR35)

Job Description:

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ownership of the strategic vision and roadmap for all products within their domain.
• Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level business models, and preparing business cases.
• Ensures compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards and practices.
• Responsible for effective and timely development of new and/or enhanced systems/technologies.
• Monitors all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle and Production Support service levels. Ensures high level technical support is provided.
• Works closely with customers, other IT managers, and management to identify and maximize opportunities to use technology to improve business processes.
• Prepares business cases, including financial analyses of potential new technologies/systems/applications. Evaluates based on company strategic needs and resource availability.
• Oversees business analysis, development work and quality assurance of projects for assigned systems/technologies.
• Contributes to the development of information technology development standards, policies, processes and procedures to ensure consistent compatibility and integration throughout the company.
• Continuously reviews the technology needs of supported business functions/processes relative to new technological developments and trends. Keeps abreast of the industry and emerging technology

Skills:

• Broad knowledge of software development techniques, processes, methods and best practices. Proficiency with various programming languages.
• Knowledge of application test automation products, processes, and best practices
• Proven experience and strong understanding of Agile development and conventional method and its application to company technology needs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively lead and motivate team.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation & consultative skills for effective collaboration with senior management.
• Good general business acumen.
• Thorough knowledge of databases technologies, both relational (such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL) and non-relational database technologies as such as Memcached, MongoDB and Redis.
• Experience with Insurance / Reinsurance Systems and Data.
• High level knowledge/expertise of Front-end development such as: ReactJS, Webpack, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Accessibility and Responsive Layouts UI/UX development experience