Engineering Manager

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and manage a team of developers to support the delivery and maintenance of the platform.

Specific Role Responsibilities:

• Day to day leadership, line management, mentoring and growth of FNZ’s developer population.
• Develop a career progression framework for developers
• Provide leadership and direction to ensure on-going consistency in software build projects
• Ensure effective development and succession planning across the developer population, including:
• On-boarding and employee lifecycle
• Co-ordination of job gradings to ensure global and departmental consistency
• Accountable for the overall productivity and performance of the developers, system designers and architects within the team
• Accountable for the quality of delivery out of the development team
• Ensure the development team is motivated and engaged to deliver high quality work. This is measured through attrition and defect density.
• Remove key-man dependencies and knowledge gaps, by developing skills and capabilities within the teams as required to meet the development plans of FNZ.
• Develop a ‘community’ within the Developer teams, facilitate sharing of best practice and knowledge transfer and encourage a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team
• Actively identify and promote opportunities for efficiency or process improvements
• Provide a strong focus on system performance and application security within the development community
• Enforce software development best practice
• Own and maintain the Agile software development life cycle process within FNZ
• Oversee and ensure the adherence to agreed standards and processes specifically SDLC within the developer community
• Promote the development of platform capabilities and reuse where it is appropriate to do so
• Responsible for the region’s Software Architecture function
• Drive and implement architectural advancement and ensure that architecture guidelines are followed by the developers
• Identify and implement appropriate design and development methodologies, best practices, coding standards, documentation and tools
• Ensure adequate Unit Tests are developed, maintained and are passing to ensure required quality gateways are met
• Take an active role in understanding the business domain and FNZ platforms to ensure software is delivered in line with FNZ specifications.
• Work collaboratively with the Solution Consulting and System Analyst functions to continuously improve requirements gathering

Experience required

• 12+ Years of experience with a strong track record of ‘making things happen’ you will have a background in formal software development practices and processes and be comfortable managing the people working in this space on diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities.
• Strong people and personal relationship management skills, project / resource management, problem solving and change management, you will have a professional and positive approach, be self-motivated and be strong in building relationships across disciplines.
• Experience leading and delivering the development of consumer grade, high-volume/high-availability software applications.
• Understanding of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) process and Agile development.