Engineering Manager - Malaga, España - Underwriting Solutions

Underwriting Solutions

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Malaga, España

hace 3 semanas

Publicado por:

Isabel García

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Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows.

Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description:

Responsible for the overall technical leadership in a product team / department, devising the strategy for growth and supervising a team of engineers as they develop, test, modify, and create solutions to technical problems.

As such this role's aim is to ensure we deliver software of good quality, maintainable, delivered on time and following all the processes involved in the software creation and delivery (SDLC, invoicing, performance management, etc.).

This role doesn't work alone, but in coordination with other managers (product management, support, sales, other product teams,) to ensure an efficient usage of the technical resources, our adherence to standards (quality, maintainability, supportability, adequate TCO of the solutions ).

Supervises staff on the following roles:

Developers
Manual Testers
Automated Testing
DevOps
Team Leads (Development, DevOps, Testing)
Other technical and nontechnical roles to be agreed depending on the team / department

Main Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership

Leads strategic organizational decisions and plans. Consistently works at a strategic level, influencing decisions to achieve organizational alignment on major goals.
Actively seeks to create or redefine roadmaps with product / business counterparts.
Takes ownership of decisions made in the engineering team by helping members make clear decisions in alignment with organizational goals, backing decisions made, and taking responsibility for their success.
Identifies dependencies across the organization and works with individual teams to resolve them before they become an issue.
Works across the organization to foster a culture of risk handling, priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy.
Helps balance speed and quality to manage technical debt, in coordination with product and business stakeholders.
Implement and drive a continuous improvement culture, identifying where improvements can be made via automation, in work processes and tools.

Team efficiency

Fosters a culture of delivering praise and constructive feedback across the team.
Make use of data to drive decisions in improving team efficiency. Approaches include skill development, organizational standards, processes, automation, and tools.
Accountable for the objective setting & performance reviews for the technical team, including
Compensation adjustments (bonus, raises, etc)
Promotions and Performance improvement plans
1on1's with your direct reports & skip level 1on1's with certain reports of your reports.
Career development of the team
Develops strategies to promote team leaders and members adherence to company regulations and performance goals
Responsible for maintaining headcount and expenditure within the agreed department levels.
Makes sure the members of the team have all the equipment needed to perform their duties efficiently.

Communication

Connect employees to the company
Voice of the team, and as such needs to communicate:

Communicating status of your team up to Product Heads

Across

Communicating with peers and other functional groups across the organization

Down

Communicating news, decision making to your team.

Any other duties commensurate to the grade of the role.

Qualifications:

We value the following on an Engineering Manager:

Trust-based relationship with the team

Curious

Asks good questions, observes, takes notes of what motivates team members, digging into the responses she/he gets.
Ability to connect to the bigger picture
Helps engineers understand how their work connects to the bigger picture (on the specific product and our suite, wider strategy and customer value).
Involves engineers in decision making
It is not always possible to go with what everyone wants. But we can still do a good job at contextualizing the decisions we make, and helping your team understand that their feedback was considered.
Ability to give feedback for growth, coach, sponsor and support engineers.
Drives a culture of trust and continuous improvement on teams
Builds trust and a structure around we collaborate

Removes blockers

Setting up escalation paths for people.
Continuously improves via postmortems, code reviews, retrospectives, mentoring, technical debt reduction or knowledge sharing.
Support organisational change
Advocates for change to improve larger structures around the team and the department
Manages his/her own manager (manage up)
Builds frameworks and standards
While it is always important to make room for individual needs, structures and frameworks for managers help us hold each other accountable.
Desire to grow as a leader