Requirements and what you will do:

• Get to do amazing things with amazing people and help them do more than they could ever do without you.
• Help to direct, plan and coordinate activities, while working alongside and collaborating with teams and team members. It’s a combination (and juggling) of people management, project management and technical knowledge with the aim of delivering the right products and services, in the right way, at the right time. Much of your time will be spent interacting with team members. You will make sure they get what they need to perform their job and let them make engineering decisions – they are closest to the work and are the right people to decide how things will be done so you will need to manage the fine line between micro-management and no-management.
• The primary responsibility is helping your people succeed at their tasks. You do that by scheduling enough time to be available for them, and by trying to fix the issues. You will sit with software engineers, test automation engineers, solution architects, UX Designers and other members of our ‘full practice’ DevOps teams to assess risks or dependencies and make decisions to move forward, and with other leaders, making sure everything is aligned with the company’s business goals.
• Incredible interpersonal skills from you as a servant leader, as well as a sense of camaraderie – and data to support the way you guide and mentor your teams. Trying to persuade people (engineers or not) to listen to you without an actual logical reason is not and should not be the way it works. Don’t think of yourself as a manager, think of yourself as a servant leader – there is a big difference
• Being decisive and having the ability to communicate effectively – including technical aspects to both technical and non-technical stakeholders – aligning team efforts to the company’s goals in a scalable way, and genuinely caring about building and maintaining relationships between stakeholders, other teams, and engineers.
• Together with your Portfolio Practice Leads and Scrum Masters, you will regularly be looking for ways to improve the way the teams work and helping to shape and optimise frameworks, methods, tooling and processes that could be improved upon and identify any automation opportunities that may exist to streamline the flow of work.
• Gain the trust of your stakeholders, helping them accept your decisions and honest narratives
• Every team you work with will be different, so the role itself is very fluid. Just like technology, it evolves.

When your teams succeed, it’s about them being amazing – and the sign of your success is that no one knew they needed you.