Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager focuses on leading multiple engineering teams through engineering managers.

What the role involves

• Leading multiple engineering teams through Engineering Managers.
• Develop Engineering Managers across performance, growth and hiring.
• Own delivery across a broader area, ensuring work is aligned and progressing as expected.
• Improving how work is planned, prioritised and executed across teams.
• Identify where delivery slows down or breaks, and address underlying causes.
• Work closely with product and senior stakeholders to maintain clarity on priorities.

Skills and requirements

• Experience managing Engineering Managers directly (manager-of-managers experience).
• Strong technical background, with the ability to guide teams without being hands-on.
• Experience working in environments with distributed systems, production scale and operational complexity.
• Track record of improving delivery across multiple teams.

Additional role context

• The environment is already established, with multiple teams, dependencies and moving parts.
• The priority now is creating more consistency, improving flow, and strengthening how teams operate at scale.