Admiral Group Plc
Senior Engineering Manager
United Kingdom
Posted 11 days ago
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Senior Engineering Manager (Senior Chapter Lead)
This is a senior leadership role responsible for the overall health, capability, and effectiveness of engineering teams within their area of responsibility. The role replaces the traditional Chapter-led model with a more integrated approach, focusing on:
- Engineering strategy
- People leadership
- Capability development
- Delivery enablement
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Vision
- Define and own the engineering strategy within scope, aligned with broader technology and capability direction
- Set clear strategic priorities, standards, and expectations, guiding team operation and evolution
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term capability, sustainability, and risk management
- Take responsibility for engineering strategy effectiveness, adapting direction based on:
- Data
- Feedback
- Performance
- Contribute insights and learning to wider capability and technology discussions
Leadership & Delivery
- Hold leaders accountable for:
- Effective people leadership
- Clear ownership
- Sustained performance
- Partner with delivery and product leadership to ensure teams are:
- Appropriately supported
- Resourced
- Organised
- Focus on system-level health, identifying:
- Recurring organisational issues
- Resourcing challenges
- Ways of working impeding team progress
- Use outcome-focused metrics to improve:
- Consistency
- Predictability
- Team effectiveness
Cross-Functional Influence
- Act as a senior engineering leadership partner across:
- Delivery
- Product
- Architecture
- Technology
- Collaborate with Principal Engineers, ensuring support in:
- Technical decision-making
- Capability strategy
- Leadership
- Organisational structures
- Influence cross-functional decisions by providing perspective on:
- Capability
- Leadership capacity
- Risk
- Sustainability
- Represent engineering needs in:
- Planning
- Prioritisation
- Governance forums
- Serve as an escalation point for complex challenges unresolved at a team level, such as:
- People issues
- Capability concerns
- Organisational obstacles
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Innovation & Engineering Excellence
- Drive continuous improvement in:
- Engineering practices
- Controls
- Automation
- Developer experience
- Ensure compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements in:
- Engineering practices
- Design
- Testing
- Support responsible innovation adoption, including:
- Automation
- GenAI
- Promote:
- Reuse of proven patterns
- Improved documentation
- Knowledge sharing
Culture & Talent
- Line manage and develop:
- Engineering Managers
- Staff Engineers
- Build leadership capability in the reporting line, supporting managers skilled in:
- Delivery
- People leadership
- Own succession planning and leadership development within scope
- Lead recruitment, onboarding, and talent development to ensure teams have:
- Necessary capability
- Required capacity
- Foster an inclusive and psychologically safe culture encouraging:
- Accountability
- Learning
- Transparency
- Continuous improvement
Who You Are
- An engineering leader with:
- Significant experience in leading leaders
- Ability to build engineering capability
- Comfortable with defining and owning strategy while taking responsibility for outcomes
- Credible and confident when working alongside senior technical specialists
- Skilled at managing:
- Complexity
- Ambiguity
- Competing priorities
- Data-informed, using insight and evidence to drive improvement
- A role model for:
- Engineering professionalism
- Collaboration
- Continuous improvement
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Admiral: Where You Can Be
Our Values
We pride ourselves on being a diverse and inclusive business. We offer:
- Flexibility to Be You
- A culture of support and empowerment, helping you Be Brilliant
Your Growth
- Grow And Progress at your own pace and direction
- Make A Difference through impactful work
- Share In Our Future with up to £3,600 of free shares after one year of service
The Admiral Experience
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) on joining, rising to 38 days (including bank holidays) at max
- 5 extra days of annual leave available for buy or sell
Recognition & Inclusion
Proud to be a Great Place to Work for Women, Wellbeing, and overall for 25+ years
- Progress is barrier-free, supporting race, gender, age, sexuality, and protected characteristics
Extended Benefits
Explore our fantastic benefits for a great work-life balance here.
Disability Confident Leader
Admiral, as a Disability Confident Leader, offers:
- Candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions can opt in to receive:
- Fair and proportionate consideration for the first-stage selection process
- Adjustments/support available during applications and recruitment
- Dedicated contact: 07386666328 or email for reasonable adjustments
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Skills
Engineering Leadership
Strategy Development
People Management
Capability Development
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Data-Driven Decision Making
Continuous Improvement
Organizational Health
Risk Management
Innovation
Talent Development
Succession Planning
Agile Methodologies
Technical Decision Making
Quality Assurance
Automation
Location