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Engineering Team Manager
Job ID: 010146
Location: Bradford, UK, BD5 8LJ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Up to £65,000 Dependent on Experience + Bonus & Benefits
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Are you an experienced engineering leader ready to build high-performing teams and drive meaningful technical change? We’re looking for an Engineering Team Manager to lead delivery across our engineering estate, shaping how we build, run and evolve services. This is a great opportunity to combine people leadership with technical oversight, influencing how we deliver value across our technology landscape.
This is a hybrid role, a mix of working from home plus time in our central Leeds & Bradford offices.
About the role
As an Engineering Team Manager, you’ll lead, develop and motivate a team of Engineers, driving high-quality delivery and continuous improvement across services and change initiatives.
You’ll work closely with stakeholders, architecture and delivery partners to ensure solutions are delivered effectively, safely and in line with strategic priorities.
In this role, you will:
Lead, coach and develop a high-performing engineering team, building capability and supporting continuous development
Own the delivery of engineering change, ensuring services are delivered efficiently and aligned to business needs
Collaborate with stakeholders, product teams and architecture to shape solutions and influence longer-term technology plans
Manage third-party partners, ensuring delivery meets agreed standards, commitments and expectations
Set and uphold engineering standards, assuring technical quality, risk management and best practice
Oversee planning and prioritisation, balancing delivery, cost, risk and resource management
Contribute to budget planning, forecasting and cost centre management
Act as a deputy to senior engineering leadership, supporting succession planning and wider capability development
About you
You’re a strong people leader with a solid engineering background and a track record of delivering change in complex environments. You’re comfortable balancing delivery, people and commercial considerations, and thrive in a collaborative, evolving organisation. You’ll have -
Experience leading and developing engineering teams, building capability and driving high performance
Strong understanding of engineering delivery, including planning, prioritisation and service support
Experience working with stakeholders across technology and the wider business to shape and deliver outcomes
Ability to manage third-party suppliers, ensuring performance, value and alignment to objectives
Strong awareness of cost, risk and resource management within engineering delivery
Experience contributing to financial planning, forecasting and budget management
A focus on continuous improvement, with the ability to influence standards, ways of working and organisational change
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to lead and inspire others
Ideally have experience of API’s and Java Spring Boot Microservices
About our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingOur Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Our commitments to Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
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