IT Manager

Are you an IT Manager / Engineering Manager with experience in C# or java? Are you looking for an opportunity to be a technology disruptor / change maker in a household name B2C company? Do you want a remote-first role at a company that lets you be in control of your own time?

We've been exclusively retained by our client, a well loved household name, known for their award winning delivery in the B2C space, to help them with their search for an IT Manager / Engineering Manager. You will be overseeing the delivery of new features of their core technology, which links the every day user experience to back end B2B suppliers.

This is mission critical software for this business. At the crux of the successful IT Manager / Engineering Manager is a tech savvy, pragmatic, authentic and compassionate leader who sees programming languages as a tools to address a challenges, rather than being hung up on the tooling itself. In order to build empathy with your team, there is an expectation that you will have risen into your current position from a foundation of hands on OO programming.

We're hoping to find an innovative technology disruptor a change maker who can spot opportunities to improve the status quo and support this business' continued successes at scale. The company continues on a rapid trajectory of fast growth.

Essential skills for the role:

• Minimum 8 years' experience working in software engineering with either C# or Java.
• Minimum 5 years' experience working with cloud technology - AWS, GCP, Azure or equivalents.
• Thorough understanding of microservices architecture / SOA
• Experience working with Kafka / other streaming platforms also of interest
• Strong grasp of the developers perspective on SDLC from TDD, through to CI/CD pipeline implementation and monitoring
• The ability to deliver systems that scale! This client is anticipating 3x growth, the platform already supports billions of transactions a minute.
• Experience overseeing the learning and development needs of your team ensuring their skills are current and fit for the technical challenges at hand
• Empathetic, compassionate leadership with demonstrated experience of managing and coaching high performing teams
• Comfortable influencing stakeholders at all levels to effect positive technology change
• Experienced hosting and moderating technical discussions with your development teams
• Experience working with Agile / SOLID / DRY / Kanban etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Skilled at managing and motivating a diverse remote first technology team

Benefits

This is a hybrid role which will require your in-office attendance 2-3 days a month. The client is open to applicants living anywhere in the UK, but not overseas.

You'll also get:

• 25 days holiday plus your birthday off
• Generous company discounts (we can't tell you what these are in an ad, but they're a crowd-pleasing perk, to say the least)
• Flexible working hours (with core team hours of 10am - 4pm)
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
• Employee Assistance Programme and free access to counselling
• Health Plan
• Company Sick Pay scheme
• Regular wellbeing events
• Gym discount
• Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
• Death in Service cover
• Onsite subsidised coffee shop and onsite bar
• Cycle to Work scheme
• And more!

If you are an IT Manager or Engineering Manager who is into delivering resilient, high volume trading systems that integrate seamlessly into a number of endpoints with an underlying design built to scale, we'd love to hear from you.

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply. Promising applicants can be assured of a response within 24 hours, to include full details of the role, progression and the excellent benefits package on offer.

TheDifferenceEngine is a recruitment agency working exclusively in support of our client.