Engineering Delivery & Operations Manager

This is a two-part role, and the first part is where you’ll spend most of your first year. Part one : deliver the program . A board of our most experienced engineers is defining the architectural direction and producing a large backlog of clean-up and improvement work. That work will be delivered by several external squads brought in for the program. You own the delivery layer between them: getting squads stood up and productive on time, tracking each one’s pace and quality, and keeping the whole program on schedule. Stand up and onboard external squads, around 20 developers across 5 to 6 squads, on time : access, environments, documentation, and a well-scoped first backlog ready before they start Track the delivery pace of each squad against its commitments, and keep a clear program-level view of what’s on track, slipping, or blocked Hold squads to the quality bar set by the architectural board : tests, reviews, and no new debt introduced while removing old debt Manage cross-squad dependencies so work lands in the right order Track program spend against budget and manage the relationships with the partners supplying the squads Report program status to the CTO and the board on a regular cadence Part two : become the operational backbone of engineering. As the program matures, you’ll take on the people-operations side of the organisation: helping our managers run great 1:1s and reviews, coordinating the performance cycle, keeping an eye on team capacity and wellbeing, and bringing rigour to tooling and budget. This is what makes the role a long-term home rather than a temporary program job. You’ll work closely with the CTO, the architectural board, our 4 Team Leads, and the external partners supplying the squads. You won’t set the technical strategy or write the code, you’ll make sure the right work gets delivered, on time, at the right quality.