Engineering Manager 12 month FTC

Engineering Manager
Location Leeds
Hybrid - 2 days per week

FTC - 12months

The Engineering Manager is accountable for a Software Engineering delivery team and its software delivery. You will passionately lead a team of 5 software engineers and 1 QA engineer to deliver amazing value to our customers. You and your team will be working as part of a multiple team multiple location environment to further evolve the gbp platform to become a truly world-class sports betting platform to power the Flutter Group to innovate and differentiate the experience we can provide to our customers across our multiple brands. Using lean and agile methodologies you will be responsible for the pace scale and performance of your teams delivery. Having a technical background with experience in all aspects of software engineering processes from inception to release will set you up for success.

As an Engineering Manager you will also be accountable for hiring performance appraisal and reward of your team focusing on helping your people define their career path and goals for the short and long term.

Your exceptional communication skills will be key not only to lead your team through a complicated constantly evolving environment but also to your constant interactions with a diverse group of stakeholders.

About Flutter
In Flutter COO we work with experts across Flutter to build deploy and communicate the Flutter Edge. Together we cover Product & Payments Technology Sportsbook Product & Trading People Property Corporate Communications and Strategic Partnerships & Transformation.

What youll do

Leadership & People

• Lead inspire empower and line manage a multi-disciplinary software development team;
• Coach hold 1 to 1s set and review objectives appraise performance and assist with career development ensuring effective performance management;
• Lead a delivery with a high-quality approach that is outcome oriented and takes accountability;
• Responsible for achieving and sustaining peoples engagement;
• Meet ambitious timelines while balancing business risks and trade-offs;
• Drive the team to continuously improve processes in an always changing environment;
• Ensure employee retention through motivation and strong management.

Software Delivery

• Actively work with peer Engineering Managers to align delivery initiatives clarify dependencies and optimize progress towards a common goal;
• Identify risks early on and provide mitigations to ensure effective delivery;
• Understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver value to end users and the business;
• Apply knowledge of Agile/Lean within the team namely Scrum to continuously improve the team pace efficiency and quality;
• Serve as liaison between the delivery team and key stakeholder(s);
• Implement plan and lead changes as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements;
• Run the review of product requirements within the team and communicate feedback to product stakeholders;
• Provide technical direction for design development testing and deployment from definition phase through planning implementation and maintenance;
• Understand and balance commercial needs against technical requirements and capabilities;
• Easily recognize system deficiencies and lead to effective solutions;
• Continuous improvement of processes through automation of common procedures and implementation of standards processes and checklists;
• Prioritize tasks throughout all phases of the project lifecycle;
• Actively measure and review the velocity quality and duration of delivery taking prompt corrective action where needed.

Ownership:

• Own products and/or components in terms of being fully accountable for efficient effective high-quality implementation of the roadmap;
• Work closely with the key customers stakeholders and external partners across Group Technology;
• Organization to implement evolve support and own the software and system components to appropriate quality standards;
• Clearly communicate and promote strategies roadmaps dependencies and plans for products and/or components;
• Manage all technical resources and capacity plans within budget and project schedule.

What youll need

• Consistent track record of leading and running multi-disciplinary teams on sophisticated software projects;
• Experience using agile methods for software delivery;
• Experience working with distributed redundant and transactional systems and the quality assurance of these;
• Experience managing the development of a team by ensuring that project tasks are in line with each team members defined career path as much as possible; Strong analytical and diagnostic skills particularly regarding technical risks issues and constraints;
• Shown track of project management;
• Release management experience;
• Background in working in a Continuous Integration (or Delivery) environment;
• Background in working with a DevOps culture;
• Experience working with Cloud Infrastructures.
• Consistent track record of Incident Management

Whats in it for you
We are a flexible employer; whether you have personal commitments or a hobby that brings you joy we want you to bring your best self to work and feel empowered to do so. We also like to share our success; after all you make it happen. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:

• Bonus scheme
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• 1000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
• Enhanced parental leave

About Flutter

We are a world leader in online sports betting and iGaming with a market leading position in the US and across the world.

We have an unparalleled portfolio of the most innovative diverse and distinctive brands including FanDuel Sky Betting & Gaming Sportsbet PokerStars Paddy Power Sisal tombola Betfair MaxBet Junglee Games and Adjarabet.

With our global scale and challenger attitude through which we excite and entertain our customers in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power the Flutter Edge we aim to disrupt the sector learning from the past to create a better future for our customers colleagues and communities.

Were working to be an inclusive employer and we encourage people from all backgrounds ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you dont have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know and well see how we can accommodate them.