Engineering Manager - FTC

Engineering Manager

Location – Leeds

Hybrid – 2 days per week

FTC – 12 months

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 team’s 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.

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

• 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 people’s 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.

• Actively work with peer Engineering Managers to align delivery initiatives, clarify dependencies, and optimise 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 recognise system deficiencies and lead to effective solutions;
• Continuous improvement of processes through automation of common procedures, and implementation of standards, processes, and checklists;
• Prioritise 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.

• 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;
• Organisation 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.