Digital Engineering Manager

Salary starting from 76500 salary dependent on skills and experience

Permanent / 37 hours per week / Full-time (with flexibility for part-time working)

Huntingdon Lincoln or Peterborough Hybrid

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in how we serve our customers colleagues and communities.

Were looking for a Digital Engineering Manager to lead our Software Engineering Practice and help shape the future of software delivery across Anglian Water. This is a leadership role that combines technical credibility people leadership and strategic influence. Youll be responsible for creating an environment where engineers can thrive engineering standards are consistently applied and delivery teams are equipped to build secure scalable and resilient digital products.

Youll lead a community of software engineers spanning permanent employees and delivery partners supporting their development while ensuring the organisation continues to evolve its engineering capability and ways of working.

As our Digital Engineering Manager youll:

• Lead and continuously develop the Software Engineering Practice across Anglian Water.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on quality collaboration continuous improvement and customer value.
• Define and evolve engineering standards guardrails patterns and best practices.
• Partner with Product Architecture Cyber and other Digital Data and Technology teams to ensure bespoke software products align to wider strategic outcomes.
• Provide leadership and line management for senior software engineers and lead software engineers.
• Support workforce planning capability growth recruitment and succession planning.
• Champion modern engineering practices including DevOps automation observability secure-by-design development and continuous delivery.
• Drive improvements in engineering maturity through the use of meaningful metrics and performance insights.
• Identify opportunities to simplify automate and improve the effectiveness of software delivery.
• Act as a senior technical leader influencing investment decisions technical direction and delivery approaches across the organisation.

Youll bring:

• Significant experience leading software engineering teams or practices within a complex technology environment.
• A strong software engineering background with the technical credibility to engage at both strategic and detailed levels.
• Experience building high-performing engineering teams and developing technical talent.
• Knowledge of modern software engineering practices cloud-native delivery DevOps Artificial Intelligence and engineering governance.
• Experience working within agile and product-centric delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive organisational change.
• A passion for coaching mentoring and building inclusive high-performing teams.
• Experience balancing technical excellence risk management technical debt and business outcomes.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively across Product Architecture Cyber Security and other DDaT functions.

Whats in it for you

• Private healthcare and physiotherapy
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
• 26 days annual leave (rising with service)
• Competitive pension scheme Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 7% (up to 21% combined)
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits and working culture
• Life Assurance (8 salary) and Personal Accident cover
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Great discounts and perks

Why apply

This isnt just an opportunity to lead a software engineering team. Its a chance to shape how engineering is done at Anglian Water.

Youll influence our engineering strategy develop talented people and help create the standards culture and ways of working that enable teams to deliver secure scalable and resilient digital products. Working across Product Architecture Cyber and DDaT youll have the visibility and influence to make meaningful change while building an engineering community where people can thrive.

If you want the autonomy to shape an engineering practice develop great people and leave a lasting impact on a major organisations digital future wed love to hear from you.

Closing date: 11th October 2026

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