IT Engineering Manager
Holman, Inc.
Chippenham, United Kingdom
11 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Chippenham, United Kingdom
Tech stack
.NET
Artificial Intelligence
Systems Engineering
DevOps
Programming Tools
Software Engineering
Large Language Models
Job description
- Lead, coach, and line-manage a multi-disciplinary engineering team, setting clear expectations, objectives, and performance standards.
- Provide technical leadership across architecture, design, and engineering standards, contributing to the evolution of the technology strategy through informed design and platform decisions.
- Take end-to-end technical ownership for the platforms and services delivered by the engineering teams.
- Partner with Product, Delivery, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams (UK and US) to align engineering outcomes to business priorities.
- Establish, embed, and continuously improve engineering ways of working, delivery practices, and quality standards.
- Ensure adherence to agreed coding, testing, release, security, and operational best practices.
- Govern and oversee external technical resource providers to ensure quality, accountability, and alignment to internal standards.
- Lead recruitment, onboarding, succession, and capability planning to ensure sustainable team capacity and skills.
- Provide senior technical input to solution design, architecture reviews, incident response, and complex problem resolution when required.
Requirements
Do you have experience in DevOps?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Significant experience (typically 5+ years) in an engineering management or senior technical leadership role within complex, multi-disciplinary environments.
- Strong background in software engineering, including design, development, and operation of .NET-based applications and services.
- Proven experience leading teams using Agile delivery and DevOps practices
Preferred Education & Experience:
- Experience working within globally distributed teams, including collaboration with US-based stakeholders.
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled development tools and/or large language model (LLM) capabilities
Benefits & conditions
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Tuition Reimbursement
About the company
At Holman, we exist to provide rewarding careers and better lives for employees and their families. We hire, train, empower, and reward exceptional people. Our journey is guided by our desire to get it right every time and the acknowledgement that we have an opportunity to be better. To be better, we have to do better, and to do better we must know better. That's why we are listening, open to learning new things - about ourselves and each other. We will never stop striving for improved diversity, equity, and inclusion because we are successful together when we feel trusted and supported. It's The Holman Way., Holman is a global automotive leader that serves both commercial and consumer clients The Holman Way by always doing the right thing for our people, our customers, and the community since 1924. The Holman story began nearly a century ago as a single Ford dealership in New Jersey. Today, Holman, headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, is one of the largest family-owned automotive service organizations in North America with more than 6,500 employees across North America, the UK, and Germany.
Holman delivers a unique range of automotive-centric services including industry-leading fleet management and leasing; vehicle fabrication and upfitting; component manufacturing and productivity solutions; powertrain distribution and logistics services; commercial and personal insurance and risk management; and retail automotive sales as one of the largest privately owned dealership groups in the United States. Guided by its deeply rooted core values and principles, Holman is continuously Driving What's Right.