Interim IT Platforms & Engineering Manager

As a result of our IT Platforms & Engineering Manager heading off on Family leave, we are seeking to appoint an Interim IT Platforms & Engineering Manager on a 6-month Fixed Term contract, to lead our Platforms & Engineering function and play a key role in transforming how we deliver technology across the Society. As our Interim IT Platforms & Engineering Manager, you'll be a key member of the IT Leadership team, responsible for the performance, development, and wellbeing of your engineering teams. Your primary focus will be on people management and delivery oversight - ensuring your teams are supported, engaged, and equipped to deliver high-quality outcomes. While you'll collaborate with others on strategic direction and tooling decisions, this role more about leading people, managing workloads, and ensuring smooth, predictable delivery., * People Leadership: Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and development for engineers. Build a positive culture, support wellbeing and ensure teams have what they need to thrive.

• Delivery Management: Oversee delivery plans, team workloads, prioritisation and progress. Remove blockers and ensure teams can deliver effectively and on time.
• Release Coordination: Ensure smooth and frequent software releases by supporting DevOps-aligned ways of working.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Maintain strong relationships across Change Delivery, Infrastructure and Service Operations. Communicate progress clearly and ensure alignment.
• Environment & Platform Oversight: Work with technical specialists to maintain stable and reliable environments across on-prem and Azure workloads.
• Problem Solving: Support teams in identifying and resolving issues to maintain system health and operational stability.
• Security & Compliance: Work with relevant teams to ensure platforms and processes remain secure and compliant.

• Understanding if cloud platforms and infrastructure.
• Awareness of infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Understanding of non-functional testing (NFT) categories.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to support continuous improvement and help teams work more effectively.

Previous experience:

• Demonstratable experience in leading and developing technical teams.
• Experience working within the Software Delivery Lifecycle.
• Understanding of DevOps-aligned ways of working.

If you're excited by the opportunity to lead a modern engineering function, empower a brilliant team, and deliver platforms and processes that enable exceptional software delivery, we'd love to hear from you.

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