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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineering Manager - **Company:** Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Ltd - **Location:** London, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Applications Architecture, Application Lifecycle Management, JIRA, Audit Trail, User Authentication, Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Cloud Database, Profiling, Code Review, Encodings, Cyber Security, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Liquibase, Live Connect (Windows), Microsoft Office, Oracle Data Service Integrator, Oracle Databases, Oracle (Applications), Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Oracle Apex, Software Engineering, PL-SQL, SQL Databases, Apex Code, Database Optimization, Git, Amazon Relational Database Service, Data Lineage, Atlassian Tools, Bitbucket, Software Coding, Restful APIs, Oracle Integration, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines - **Published:** October 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/D981E18B951C4A7B919034C513A8DD77/job/ ## About the Role You will be an experienced Oracle professional who has moved into leadership, with a track record of leading engineering teams delivering data-focused projects. You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to review a design or a complex PL/SQL package, but your real strength is building a capable, motivated team and creating the conditions for it to deliver high-quality work. You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, and you thrive on fast-moving, business-critical programmes., Leadership and Delivery * Proven experience leading and line managing a team of Oracle, database or data engineers. * Recruiting, coaching and developing engineers, and building an inclusive, high-performing team culture. * Agile delivery experience (Scrum and/or Kanban) using Jira, including planning, estimation and release management. * Managing risks, issues, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations on complex programmes. * Excellent communication and planning skills, with the ability to present to senior stakeholders and put technical topics into non-technical terms. Oracle Technical Expertise * Strong hands-on background in Oracle Database (19c or later), SQL and PL/SQL, with the ability to review code and designs critically. * Substantial experience of Oracle APEX, including application architecture, security (authentication, authorisation, session state protection) and performance. * Understanding of ORDS and RESTful integration patterns. * Experience managing the APEX application lifecycle, including deployment between environments, APEX upgrades and source control. * Database performance tuning, data modelling and an understanding of backup, recovery and resilience in partnership with DBA and infrastructure teams. Data Pipelines, Transformation and Quality * Experience overseeing ETL/ELT pipeline design and operation, including CDC, orchestration, monitoring and alerting. * Establishing data quality controls and measures, such as validation rules, reconciliation, profiling, exception handling and data quality reporting. * Data governance knowledge, including data lineage, ownership, access control, auditability and UK GDPR obligations. * Experience of data warehousing concepts, design and loading strategies. Engineering Standards * Embedding coding standards, peer review and documentation practices. * CI/CD for database and APEX change using Git (Bitbucket) and tools such as SQLcl or Liquibase. * Automated testing strategy, including PL/SQL unit testing (e.g. utPLSQL) and working closely with QA engineers. * Incident, problem and change management for live services. Desirable Skills & Experience * Oracle integration and data quality tools such as Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), OCI Data Integration or Oracle Enterprise Data Quality. * Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or Autonomous Database, and/or Oracle on AWS (e.g. Amazon RDS for Oracle, AWS DMS, S3). * Awareness of the current APEX roadmap, including APEXlang and AI-assisted development, and how to adopt new capabilities safely. * Relevant Oracle certification and/or an agile or service management qualification (e.g. Scrum Master, ITIL). * Managing work delivered by third-party suppliers or contractors. * Experience in education, assessment or another regulated, high-stakes delivery environment. * Jira and Confluence, Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft Office applications. ## Description We are looking for an Oracle Engineering Manager to lead our Oracle engineering team on a programme called TOpS. You will be accountable for the delivery, quality and technical direction of the team's work across Oracle Database, Oracle APEX applications and the data pipelines that ingest, transform and validate data from multiple internal and external sources. You will make sure that data is trustworthy, that solutions are secure and supportable, and that the team delivers predictably. This is a people leadership role with strong technical credibility. You will line manage and develop engineers, set engineering standards, and work alongside product owners, architects, QA, project managers and business SMEs. You will also represent the team at senior stakeholder meetings, explaining progress, risks, design ideas and decisions in clear, non-technical terms., * Lead, line manage, coach and develop a team of Oracle engineers, including recruitment, objective setting, one-to-ones and performance reviews. * Own delivery planning with product owners: backlog prioritisation, estimation, sprint planning, release management, and progress reporting. * Set and uphold engineering standards for SQL, PL/SQL and APEX development, including code review, source control, CI/CD and automated testing. * Provide technical direction on Oracle APEX application architecture, security, performance and environment management (development, test and production). * Oversee the design, operation and monitoring of data pipelines, ensuring they are reliable, performant and meet agreed service levels. * Define and embed a data quality framework covering validation rules, reconciliation, quality measures, issue management, and root cause analysis. * Ensure solutions meet data protection, security and audit requirements, working with architecture, information security and governance colleagues. * Manage risks, issues and dependencies, including those involving third-party suppliers and other Pearson teams. * Lead incident and problem management for the team's live services and drive continuous improvement.