Engineering Manager

Flutter Entertainment Plc; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online gaming firm based in Leeds seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a software delivery team. This role involves accountability for team performance, coaching, and stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate will have agile methodologies experience and a solid technical background in software engineering. Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills are essential. With a commitment to career development, the position offers a flexible work environment and a competitive benefits package including enhanced parental leave and a self-development fund.

Benefits

Enhanced pension scheme

Life assurance

Income protection

£1,000 annual self-development learning fund

Invest via the Flutter Sharesave Scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in leading multi-disciplinary software teams.
• Background in working with cloud infrastructures and DevOps culture.
• Proven track record in agile methods and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a software development team of engineers and QA.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality software in a timely manner.
• Act as a liaison between the delivery team and stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Technical project management

Incident Management

Cloud Infrastructure

Team performance appraisal

Stakeholder communication

Job description

The Engineering Manager is accountable for a Software Engineering delivery team and its software delivery. You will passionately lead a team of 5 software engineers and 1 QA engineer to deliver amazing value to our customers. You and your team will be working as part of a multiple team, multiple location environment to further evolve the gbp platform to become a truly world-class sports betting platform to power the Flutter Group to innovate and differentiate the experience we can provide to our customers across our multiple brands. Using lean and agile methodologies, you will be responsible for the pace, scale, and performance of your team’s delivery. Having a technical background, with experience in all aspects of software engineering processes, from inception to release, will set you up for success.

As an Engineering Manager, you will also be accountable for hiring, performance appraisal, and reward of your team, focusing on helping your people define their career path and goals for the short and long term.

Your exceptional communication skills will be key, not only to lead your team through a complicated, constantly evolving environment but also to your constant interactions with a diverse group of stakeholders.

About Flutter

In Flutter COO we work with experts across Flutter to build, deploy and communicate the Flutter Edge. Together we cover Product & Payments, Technology, Sportsbook Product & Trading, People, Property, Corporate Communications and Strategic Partnerships & Transformation.

What you’ll do

Leadership & People

• Lead, inspire, empower and line manage a multi-disciplinary software development team;
• Coach, hold 1 to 1s, set and review objectives, appraise performance, and assist with career development, ensuring effective performance management;
• Lead a ‘delivery with a high-quality' approach that is outcome oriented and takes accountability;
• Responsible for achieving and sustaining people's engagement;
• Meet ambitious timelines while balancing business risks and trade-offs;
• Drive the team to continuously improve processes in an always changing environment;
• Ensure employee retention through motivation and strong management.

Software Delivery

• Actively work with peer Engineering Managers to align delivery initiatives, clarify dependencies, and optimize progress towards a common goal;
• Identify risks early on and provide mitigations to ensure effective delivery;
• Understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver value to end users and the business;
• Apply knowledge of Agile/Lean within the team, namely Scrum, to continuously improve the team pace, efficiency, and quality;
• Serve as liaison between the delivery team and key stakeholder(s);
• Implement, plan and lead changes as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements;
• Run the review of product requirements within the team and communicate feedback to product stakeholders;
• Provide technical direction for design, development, testing, and deployment from definition phase through planning, implementation, and maintenance;
• Understand and balance commercial needs against technical requirements and capabilities;
• Easily recognize system deficiencies and lead to effective solutions;
• Continuous improvement of processes through automation of common procedures, and implementation of standards, processes, and checklists;
• Prioritize tasks throughout all phases of the project lifecycle;
• Actively measure and review the velocity, quality and duration of delivery, taking prompt corrective action where needed.

Ownership:

• Own products and/or components in terms of being fully accountable for efficient, effective, high-quality implementation of the roadmap;
• Work closely with the key customers, stakeholders and external partners across Group Technology;
• Organization to implement, evolve, support, and own the software and system components to appropriate quality standards;
• Clearly communicate and promote strategies, roadmaps, dependencies, and plans for products and/or components;
• Manage all technical resources and capacity plans within budget and project schedule.

What you’ll need

• Consistent track record of leading and running multi-disciplinary teams on sophisticated software projects;
• Experience using agile methods for software delivery;
• Experience working with distributed, redundant, and transactional systems and the quality assurance of these;
• Experience managing the development of a team by ensuring that project tasks are in line with each team members defined career path, as much as possible; Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, particularly regarding technical risks, issues, and constraints;
• Shown track of project management;
• Release management experience;
• Background in working in a Continuous Integration (or Delivery) environment;
• Background in working with a DevOps culture;
• Experience working with Cloud Infrastructures.
• Consistent track record of Incident Management

What’s in it for you

We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy, we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:

• Enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
• Enhanced parental leave

About Flutter

We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming, with a market leading position in the US and across the world.

We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Sportsbet, PokerStars, Paddy Power, Sisal, tombola, Betfair, MaxBet, Junglee Games and Adjarabet.

With our global scale and challenger attitude, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to disrupt the sector, learning from the past to create a better future for our customers, colleagues and communities.

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.