V.Group
Engineering Manager
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Location: Country United Kingdom
Work Location: Glasgow
Who are V?
As a global leader in ship management and marine services, we add value to a vessel’s operations. Operating around the clock and around the world, V. gives every client the quality and efficiency they need in every sector. Covering crew management and recruitment, quality ship management and technical services, together with supporting management and commercial services, V. has an unrivalled industry knowledge with performance assured. Our values, We Care, We Collaborate, We Challenge, We are Consistent, We Commit and Deliver, are at the heart of everything we do and they support our strategy of Investing in Talent. We are always interested in making contact with talented individuals - people who will demonstrate our values and deliver great service, for internal and external stakeholders.
Overall Purpose of The Job
The Engineering Manager brings in-house a capability to date fulfilled by our development partner with mixed results. The role builds management capability enabling better oversight of engineering output and quality across squads working with development partners. Engineering Manager will lead and develop engineers, and own delivery oversight and quality at squad level.
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Key Responsibilities And Tasks
Team Leadership & People Management
- Line-manage and develop engineers across one or more squads, building a high-performing in-house engineering across multiple locations.
- Own onboarding, performance management and career development.
- Foster a strong engineering culture of collaboration, ownership and wellbeing.
Delivery Oversight & Quality
- Provide oversight of engineering output and quality across squads working with development partners.
- Build in-house management capability, improving on the mixed results previously delivered by the development partner.
- Uphold engineering standards, code quality and delivery predictability.
Collaboration & Scaling
- Partner with Product, QA, DevOps and development partners to deliver ShipSure.
- Remove blockers and manage delivery risk at squad level, escalating where needed.
- Contribute to scaling the squad and Engineering Manager structure as it is confirmed.
What can I expect in return?
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V. Group can offer you a market leading salary and benefits package, in addition to significant opportunities for career growth and personal development. This is a great opportunity to join a true leader in the maritime sector - a company that has exciting plans for future growth.
Essential
- Proven experience in engineering management and people leadership of software delivery teams.
- Experience managing delivery alongside outsourced / offshore development partners.
- Strong technical credibility, with a background in software engineering.
- Excellent coaching, performance management and team-building skills.
- Experience working effectively with offshore, outsourced and remote teams across different time zones and cultures.
- Glasgow-based, with a minimum of three days per week onsite in the Glasgow office.
Desirable
- Experience in maritime, ERP, or multi-tenant SaaS environments.
- Experience scaling engineering teams and squad structures.
- Familiarity with agile at scale and cloud-native delivery.
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