Job Purpose
The main responsibilities of an Engineering Lead is to build up the right capabilities in the technical people in the Tribe, equipping them with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to deliver functional excellence, and ensuring that they are focused on delivering value to the business. At the same time, we would expect the Engineering Lead to perform as a team lead and they take responsibility for the line management of the technical people within the tribe.
Accountabilities
- Accountable for recruitment, development and retention of technical resources including career pathway development for all technical members.
- Accountable for defining and setting compensation, benefits, and promotions for all members of the relevant tribe.
- Accountable for providing an inclusive environment where Chapter members have freedom and safety to innovate, experiment, and learn from failure.
- Accountable owner and role model for applying the following values: productivity, quality, transparency, and openness over internal politics into the tribe ways of working and production of outcomes.
- Accountable for providing open and effective communication channels leading to greater knowledge transfer within the tribe.
- Accountable for ensuring engineering, design and testing standards and practices comply with Admiral IT governance and architectural standards while performing in a heavily regulated environment.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for providing line management duties for all tribe technical members with a view to focussing on coaching and mentoring techniques that align to both agile principles and Admiral values.
- Responsible for technical resource recruitment, retention and overall onboarding process for all technical members.
- Responsible for supporting both personal and technical skills development for all level technical members enabling greater Squad operational performance.
- Responsible for providing effective career development for all Squad level technical members of the relevant Chapter.
- Responsible for effectively administrating Chapter member’s compensation, benefits and promotion processes
- Responsible for enabling Squads to meet their expected outcomes by supporting them in problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making.
- Responsible for improving tribe performance by applying effective performance management controls leveraging input from relevant Product Owners leading onto providing corrective actions when necessary.
- Responsible for identifying, teaching, or sponsor the required software and hardware engineering skills needed to support the development of high-quality code, components, systems, and solutions
- Responsible for supporting all Chapter members in living the following values in everything they do: productivity, quality, transparency, and openness over internal politics
- Responsible for serving as a senior coach and advisor to Agile Squads. Remaining close enough to the Squads to add value and to be a competent manager, while staying far enough away to let them problem-solve on their own
- Responsible for supporting Squad Leads and Product Owners in knowledge transition between both Squads and the wider Organisation by applying clear and concise communication channels
Key Interactions
- Regular 1 to 1s with technical members.
- Carry out annual performance reviews
- Close relationship with Tribe leadership focussing on understanding the development needs of their people.
- Participate in quarterly Portfolio Sync and weekly Portfolio checkpoint sessions and support teams by helping them remove systemic impediments
- Help protect teams from distractions and unrelated or unnecessary work
- Work with APMO to establish and monitor staffing needs
Knowledge and Experience Required
- Extensive knowledge of customer experience (CX) interaction and integration as part of software development process (can be through scrum/ lean agile or standard SDLC)
- Extensive knowledge and experience with Line management through both coaching and mentoring techniques
- Knowledge and experience in Scrum development practices, using associated tools for testing and continuous integration & deployment
- Extensive knowledge and experience with design & development into the Cloud
- Knowledge of identification and management of specific engineering, design and testing standards and practices that comply with internal organisation IT governance and architectural standards while performing within a heavily regulated environment
- Knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira, Confluence etc.
Desirable Knowledge and Experience
- Engineering and Testing of applications on any major cloud platform and awareness of serverless technologies
- Automated delivery of software though CICD with automated testing
- Understanding and implementing best practices for secure software development
- Deployment of applications on Docker and Kubernetes
- SQL and NoSQL database technologies
- Test driven development in Java, Kotlin, Python or Javascript
Additional Information
- This is a hybrid role where you will come into the office 1-2 times per week, however we are happy to look at fully remote postion for the right candidate.
- Interview dates and feedback will be given within 5 days of application
About Admiral
We're Wales’ only FTSE 100 company. We have forward-thinking approaches and provide endless opportunities to test, learn and grow. There's a reason we've been named a Best Place to Work: our progressive culture, core values, and commitment to diversity and inclusion have created a working environment where people share ideas, aren’t afraid to speak up and change things, and above all, feel valued.
Admiral has grown from being a small start-up into a multi-national organisation. The company is constantly investigating new products, services and markets and is now present in eight countries with a diverse product portfolio.
Our success goes hand-in-hand with having a strong culture where we put our people and customers first. Our philosophy is simple yet effective: people who like what they do, do it better, and this, in turn, means that our customers receive the level of service and products that they deserve. Our culture is honest, open and wholeheartedly focused on four key areas:
Communication, Equality, Reward & Recognition, and Fun.
Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance
We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.
At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're consistently voted one of Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.
You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.
If you think this role is for you and would like to be considered for this opportunity, please click “apply now” to complete an online application form.
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