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Development Manager | Azure | Engineering Leadership | Multi-Team Delivery | C# / .NET
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Development Manager | Engineering Leadership | Multi-Team Delivery | UK Residents Only | AZURE
Salary: Up to £90,000
Contract: Permanent
Start: ASAP - 4 weeks maximum notice
Working Model: Fully Remote (UK only)
Eligibility: No sponsorship - UK residents with existing right to work only
Required: Multi-team delivery leadership, Tech Lead line management, release ownership, programme-level accountability, C#.NET / Azure background (All Non-Negotiable)
🚨 Non-Negotiables - Please only apply if you have ALL of the following 🚨
Leadership:
- Prior experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead with full delivery accountability
- Experience line-managing Tech Leads or senior engineers with leadership responsibility
- Demonstrable ownership of sprint commitments, production releases, and team health
- Ability to coach leaders toward autonomy - not micromanage their teams
Delivery:
- Multi-team delivery ownership - you've held outcomes across more than one team simultaneously
- Experience shepherding software releases to production across teams or workstreams
- Proven cross-team dependency management - tracking, owning, and resolving interfaces between teams
- Strong programme-level communication with product and senior leadership
Environment:
- Product engineering background - SaaS or embedded product context, shipping on a sustained cadence
- Strong engineering credibility - you were a senior engineer or Tech Lead before moving into leadership
- Comfortable operating in a structured, compliance-aware environment
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Role Overview
This is a rare opportunity to step into a pivotal engineering leadership role at a well-established, profitable B2B tech business trusted by enterprise customers across a highly regulated, high-transaction industry.
The engineering function is in a deliberate phase of evolution - consolidating teams around product areas, introducing embedded QA, and maturing SDLC practice. You'll be one of two Development Managers brought in to provide dedicated delivery leadership across multi-team clusters as that programme takes shape.
This is not a Scrum Master role. It's not an architecture role. It's not a team lead with a bigger title. This is genuine multi-team ownership - line-managing Tech Leads, driving committed work from planning through to production, and being the single point of accountability for your cluster's delivery health.
What You'll Own
- Line management and development of 2-3 Tech Leads - coaching them toward greater autonomy and holding them accountable for their teams
- End-to-end delivery outcomes across your cluster - what commits, what ships, when it ships, and the quality bar on the way out
- Release shepherding - coordinating multi-team releases to production including sequencing, release readiness, cut-over, and post-release verification
- Cross-team dependency management - named owners, tracked, resolved within your cluster
- Programme-level status reporting to product and the Head of Engineering - specific, accurate, never sanitised
- Capacity and commitment management across teams - explicit trade-offs when priorities compete
- Guild standards adoption - ensuring architecture, quality, observability, and SDLC standards are applied consistently across your teams
- Incident discipline and operational health across all teams in your scope
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Nice to Have
- Experience in regulated environments - financial services, payments, or healthcare etc
- Familiarity with C# /.NET at enterprise scale
- Azure DevOps experience across backlog management, release pipelines, and deployment coordination
- Exposure to organisational transformation - team consolidation, operating model change, embedded QA transition
- Matrix organisation experience - delivering through teams while horizontal guilds set cross-cutting standards
What We're Not Looking For
- Someone who owns process but not outcomes
- A leader who needs to be the technical hero on every problem
- A Scrum Master looking for a ceremony facilitation role
- Someone who has only ever managed individual contributors
If you're an engineering leader who owns delivery - really owns it - and you can start within 4 weeks, get in touch now. This one will move fast.
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