Engineering Manager (Java Microservices & AWS)

We are seeking a highly accomplished Engineering Manager to lead the development of scalable secure and resilient backend platforms built on Java and AWS. This is a pivotal handson leadership position that blends deep technical expertise with strong people management and delivery oversight. The successful candidate will guide a crossfunctional engineering team champion high engineering standards and ensure that solutions are robust efficient and aligned with strategic business objectives.

In this role you will work closely with Product Owners and key stakeholders across the organisation to drive clarity prioritisation and effective delivery. You will also play an essential part in coaching mentoring and developing engineers at all career stages fostering a highperforming collaborative and growthoriented team culture.

What youll be doing:

• Leading a highperforming crossfunctional team of engineers business analysts and test engineers fostering a collaborative inclusive and growthfocused environment
• Providing technical leadership across Javabased microservices (Spring Boot) and AWS platforms ensuring solutions are scalable secure observable and aligned with architectural standards
• Guiding the delivery of clean maintainable and businessaligned solutions by promoting sound engineering principles and high-quality outputs
• Owning endtoend delivery working closely with Product Owners to refine requirements prioritise effectively and ensure consistent highquality outcome
• Driving the technical debt strategy to maintain resilient reliable systems capable of supporting longterm performance and scalability
• Defining and embedding effective testing practices including testdriven development and the testing pyramid to ensure quality security and usability
• Overseeing code reviews to ensure functional and nonfunctional requirements such as performance resilience security and maintainability are consistently met
• Driving continuous improvement by enhancing delivery processes strengthening engineering maturity supporting team wellbeing and mentoring engineers at all levels

Who were looking for:

• Strong experience in backend engineering using Java and Spring Boot with a proven track record delivering microservices in largescale commercial environments
• Proven expertise designing and orchestrating workflows with AWS Step Functions including integration across distributed systems and AWS services
• Deep understanding of modern architecture patterns including RESTful and eventdriven microservices alongside clean code principles such as SOLID and hexagonal architecture
• Handson experience with AWS services (e.g. Lambda ECS/EKS S3 RDS EventBridge SNS/SQS) and containerisation technologies such as Docker
• Experience leading engineering teams providing coaching mentoring and performance support across a range of seniority levels
• Strong knowledge of testing and quality assurance practices including TDD automated testing CI/CD pipelines and Agile delivery frameworks
• Ability to design secure observable and scalable systems with a solid grasp of nonfunctional requirements including performance resilience and security
• Experience tackling complex engineering challenges through effective debugging root cause analysis and decisionmaking that balances shortterm delivery needs with longterm sustainability

Whatever your role we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays 26 days after 2 years service. Theres also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• Were creating netzero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable modern offices across the UK all designed to bring people together and elevate the inperson experience

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Additional Information :

At L&G we believe its possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us youll be part of a welcoming inclusive culture with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesnt matter if you dont meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths potential and connection to our purpose. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time