Engineering Manager

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:
Performance Management (SFIA Level 4 PEMT):
Provides operational direction, support, and guidance to assigned colleagues.
Allocates routine tasks or project work, in line with team objectives and individual capabilities.
Monitors quality and performance against agreed criteria to make learning recommendations or to escalate concerns.
Coaches colleagues in developing target skills and capabilities in line with team and personal goals.
Facilitates effective working relationships between team members.
Employee Experience (SFIA Level 5 EEXP):
Implements working practices that motivate employees and support their health and well-being.
Provides guidance to individuals on long-term development goals and career opportunities, considering an individual's strengths and preferences.
Communicates business direction, policy, and purpose where these may drive or affect employee engagement.
Ensures clear communication of delegated tasks and provides sufficient autonomy to motivate and empower individuals.
Maintains awareness of the physical and emotional welfare of employees and provides counseling when required.
Professional Development (SFIA Level 5 PDSV):
Determines development needs for a professional practice area.
Aligns development activities with organizational priorities, learning and development strategies, and career pathways.
Guides practitioners in creating development plans.
Advises and supports assigned practitioners, ensuring alignment with professional development plans and career opportunities.
Ensures practitioners record evidence of continuing professional development.
Contributes to practitioners' performance appraisals when required.
Resourcing (SFIA Level 4 RESC):
Facilitates and supports the execution of resourcing activities in collaboration with managers and teams.
Analyzes resource requests to determine tasks, skills, and effort required.
Creates and communicates open positions internally and externally.
Conducts interviews and assessments using a planned format and structure.
Implements internal resource allocation matching skills to tasks.
Contributes to transitioning of resources, complying with relevant statutory or external regulations and codes of practice.
Delivery Management (SFIA Level 4 DEMG):
Manages the delivery of products or services for small to medium-sized initiatives.
Applies appropriate delivery methodologies and tools.
Establishes and leads delivery teams, creating a collaborative and productive working environment.
Manages the prioritization of work items, leads iteration planning processes, and ensures value is delivered incrementally throughout the delivery cycle.
Communicates delivery progress, risks, and issues to stakeholders.
Ensures the quality of deliverables.
Participates in reviews and contributes to the continuous improvement of delivery processes within the scope of the team or initiative.
Solution Architecture (SFIA Level 5 ARCH):
Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas.
Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures appropriate technical resources are made available.
Ensures appropriate tools and methods are available, understood, and employed in architecture development.
Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration.
Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
Ensures relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security and cost management) are applied correctly.
Programming/Software Development (SFIA Level 5 PROG):
Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development.
Plans and drives software construction activities.
Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools, and techniques.
Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security.
Contributes to the development of organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development.
Requirements Definition and Management (SFIA Level 4 REQM):
Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition, and prioritization activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
Contributes to selecting the requirements approach. Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge, and enables effective prioritization of requirements.
Establishes requirements baselines or backlogs, obtains appropriate agreement on requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
Software Design (SFIA Level 5 SWDN):
Specifies, designs, and architects large or complex software applications, components, and modules.
Adopts and adapts software design methods, tools, and techniques.
Undertakes impact analysis on major design options, makes recommendations, and assesses and manages associated risks.
Specifies prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision-making.
Evaluates software designs to ensure adherence to standards and identifies corrective action.
Ensures the software design balances functional, quality, security, and systems management requirements.
Contributes to the development of organisational software design and architecture policies and standards
Testing (SFIA Level 4 TEST):
Selects appropriate testing approach, including manual and automated testing.
Develops and executes test plans and test cases. Implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks.
Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems, or service design and development to enable comprehensive test coverage.
Identifies improvements in requirements, design, or specification processes to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of testing.
Analyzes and reports on test activities, results, issues, and risks, including the work of others.
Release Management (SFIA Level 5 RELM):
Develops and maintains release approaches, processes, and automation tools.
Oversees the planning and scheduling of complex, large-scale releases.
Coordinates release activities across multiple projects and programs.
Ensures release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed.
Communicates release approaches and outcomes.
Conducts post-release analysis and drives continuous improvement.
Systems Integration and Build (SFIA Level 5 SINT):
Plans and drives activities to develop organizational systems integration and build capabilities, including automation and continuous integration.
Identifies, evaluates, and manages the adoption of tools, techniques, and processes to create a robust integration framework.
Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration.
Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action.
Measures and monitors applications of standards.
Contributes to the development of organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration.
Application Support (SFIA Level 5 ASUP):
Ensures all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.
Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for applications support, incorporating security considerations.
Manages application enhancements to improve business performance.
Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs.
Systems Design (SFIA Level 4 DESN):
Designs system components using appropriate modeling techniques following agreed-upon architectures, design standards, patterns, and methodology.
Identifies and evaluates alternative design options and trade-offs.
Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders and to handle functional and non-functional requirements.
Models, simulates, or prototypes the behavior of proposed system components to enable approval by stakeholders.
Produces detailed design specifications to form the basis for the construction of systems. Reviews, verifies, and improves its own designs against specifications.
Personal Capability Building:
Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
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Experience
13-16 yrs