• Delivery management

  • Oversee 3–4 squads with a focus on:
    • Sprint cadence
    • Capacity planning
    • Blocker resolution
    • Ensuring process quality
  • Maintain a strong enough technical understanding to distinguish whether delivery issues stem from technical or organisational challenges

• Technology & delivery practices

  • Continuously raise the bar through:
    • Modern Agile/Continuous Delivery practices
    • Healthy sprint workflows
    • Predictable, high-quality delivery discipline
  • Drive continuous improvement by:
    • Identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies
    • Implementing process/tooling changes (including leveraging AI where it measurably improves delivery, e.g., requirements gathering, flow metrics, or sprint analytics)
    • Prioritising flow metrics and driving delivery signal clarity

• Alignment with Product & Business Outcomes

  • Partner with Product Engineering to ensure:
    • Delivery aligns with commercial priorities
    • Realistic capacity is considered in prioritisation decisions

• Training & upskilling

  • Identify skill gaps across the team, whether:
    • Technical (e.g., model development, platform architecture)
    • Process-based (e.g., Agile, CI/CD)
    • Organisational (e.g., sprint velocity tracking)
  • Own an actionable training plan with measurable outcomes

• Hiring & recruitment

  • Have end-to-end responsibility for hiring:
    • Defining job specs
    • Technical screening and candidate evaluations
    • Interview coordination and hiring recommendations

• Cross-team collaboration

  • Ensure clear, productive working relationships with:
    • Product Engineering
    • Modelling team
  • Manage dependencies and deliverables unambiguously, maintaining smooth cross-functional workflows

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Required Attributes

✔ 4–6+ years of engineering management experience with:

• A track record of managing mixed technical squads (e.g., some engineers focused on commercial software, others on scientific data engineering). ✔ Strong software engineering background, including:
• Writing and maintaining production code in a professional setting
• Ability to hold a technically credible conversation with Senior/Principal engineers
• Deep understanding of real-world costs, processes, and priorities faced by engineers ✔ Hands-on experience applying modern Agile/Continuous Delivery practices, with:
• Direct experience raising delivery maturity (not just applying arbitrary processes) ✔ Proven people management track record, particularly around:
• Direct feedback
• Development planning
• Follow-through on performance (beyond annual reviews) ✔ Strong delivery instincts, including:
• Recognising when a sprint is off track
• Distinguishing between technical and organisational bottlenecks ✔ Experience owning recruitment fully, including:
• Building job specs
• Coordinating interviews
• Making hiring decisions based on team needs and culture fit

✔ Direct communicator who:

• Escalates clearly when issues arise
• Avoids ambiguity—difficult conversations are handled proactively

Desirable Attributes

✅ Experience managing disparate engineering roles, such as:

• Platform-Infra (systems & services)
• Domain-specific software (e.g., epidemiological modelling, statistical modelling, financial applications)

✅ Commercial awareness, including:

• Understanding how engineering decisions impact our business and customers
• Effective collaboration with Product & commercial stakeholders

✅ Demonstrated interest in AI tools for engineering delivery, such as:

• Automating requirements clarifyation (e.g., via generative AI)
• AI-powered flow metrics to highlight risks in sprints
• AI-driven sprint analytics for team health tracking

Benefits

Aurora offers a flexible, supportive, and interesting place to work. Some of the benefits you’ll enjoy include:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Parental Support (childcare subsidies, flexible policies)
• Salary-exchange Pension (automatic deferral with 4% contribution)
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Local Oxford Discounts (food, fitness, entertainment)
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Seasonal Flu Jabs

We are committed to offering flexible work policies. Most roles are hybrid, blending in-office and remote work. Adjustable working hours are negotiable to match individual preferences.

Aurora embraces inclusivity and equality, adhering to the principle:

No applicant or employee should face unfavourable treatment based on age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy, or maternity.

How to Apply

Please submit:

1. Your Résumé / CV
2. A personal summary
3. Your salary expectations
4. Your notice period

Application Guidelines: 🔴 Only submissions via the provided job portal will be reviewed. 🔴 Email, phone, or social media applications will not be considered.

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