Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager Hybrid (Portsmouth)

Clearance: SC (British Citizens only)

Salary: 100,000- 110,000

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and shape a high-performing software engineering capability delivering modern, secure, cloud-native digital services within a highly regulated environment.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical direction, people leadership, and delivery oversight. You will be responsible for setting engineering standards, driving technical excellence, and ensuring consistent delivery across multiple multidisciplinary teams.

You will play a key role in defining how modern software is built, ensuring robust, scalable and secure systems are delivered in line with strict governance and security requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a software engineering practice, defining standards, frameworks and ways of working
• Own engineering delivery across multiple workstreams in a complex programme environment
• Provide technical leadership across cloud-native architectures, microservices and API-led systems
• Oversee design and delivery of secure, scalable software solutions
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to translate operational and business needs into technical delivery
• Drive engineering governance, ensuring alignment with security, compliance and architectural standards
• Mentor and develop engineers and technical leads, raising overall capability across teams
• Establish reusable engineering patterns, CI/CD pipelines and best practice delivery frameworks

We are looking for:

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams in complex, multi-system environments
• Strong background in AWS or Azure, microservices and modern API-led architecture
• Experience delivering software in UK Defence, government or other highly regulated sectors
• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation and secure coding
• Excellent leadership, coaching and stakeholder management skills
• Familiarity with MOD security standards and accreditation processes
• Experience with event-driven architecture and Domain Driven Design (DDD)
• Background in hands-on software engineering or technical delivery leadership