Engineering Manager (Tech Lead)

Engineering Manager (Tech Lead)

Join one of the North Wests leading tech companies with a clear AI first strategy!

We’re currently looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high performing squad (4 engineers) and play a pivotal role in transforming the customer facing digital experience across web & mobile apps).

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, this is a hands on leadership opportunity where delivery excellence, strong product partnership, and modern engineering practices meet a clear and ambitious AI strategy.

You’ll work side by side with the Digital Experience Product Manager, drive end-to-end delivery and help shape principal architectural decisions within an AWS microservices environment. The roadmap is exciting and strategic: rebuilding the platform experience to be more personalised, more engaging, and significantly more AI-driven supporting commercial goals while putting the user at the centre.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a squad of engineers (with QA managed by a dedicated QA lead), creating an environment of high trust, continuous improvement, and strong delivery outcomes
• Partner closely with a Product Manager to shape plans, priorities, and execution across end-to-end project delivery
• Drive a unified assessment of AI tooling to establish standards and consistency, and lead adoption across the team
• Own and embed effective Kanban ways of working: setting up and running boards properly, improving flow, managing WIP, and driving predictable outcomes
• Promote and role-model engineering best practice, including code quality, pragmatic process, and sustainable delivery
• Encourage and normalise pairing and collaborative problem-solving to raise quality and accelerate learning
• Contribute to principal architectural decisions in an AWS / Lambda-based microservices architecture
• Help deliver strategic initiatives including (but not limited to): Rebuilding the customer-facing experience with deeper personalisation and AI-driven journeys; and Developing a more engaging, multi-mechanic “shop front” experience that is commercially focused and user-centric

Person Requirements

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager (Tech lead) leading small to mid-sized teams
• Enthusiasm for AI-driven development: evaluating tooling, creating standards, and driving adoption in a practical, value-focused way
• A mindset rooted in good engineering practice: continuous improvement, pragmatic governance, and coaching-led leadership
• Experience operating in AWS environments, ideally within a microservices architecture using Lambda
• Comfortable contributing to architectural decision-making and aligning technical direction with product strategy
• Strong delivery and project management skills, with clear experience owning end-to-end delivery
• Deep familiarity with Kanban, including how to run boards effectively and improve delivery flow
• Confidence working closely with Product/PM counterparts, balancing speed, quality, and stakeholder expectations

Interested?

We are shortlisting now with interviews planned for early March. Get in touch asap.