Engineering Manager

We're looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.

Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.

What does Access offer you?

We offer a blended approach to office working, encouraging you to collaborate and connect in one of our thriving offices. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We'll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.

You will start with 25 days annual leave that increases with your seniority in the company, a private healthcare and life insurance. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you.  There are plenty of other perks. Apply to find out more.

Position Summary:
Engineering Managers at Access perform the vital role of helping engineering teams achieve high performance through continuous improvement, technological advancement and inspirational leadership. You will have strong hands-on experience as a developer in previous roles and won't be afraid to roll up your sleeves should the opportunity arise. You will have a strong grasp of modern software development in an agile environment and provide teams the needed leadership and management support to achieve high performance. You will understand cloud architecture, managed service delivery and best practice methodologies. You will be current in modern technologies and have the ability to adapt to unfamiliar domains and tech stacks. You will have a continuous improvement mindset and understand how DORA can help teams attain higher performance through process optimization and continuous delivery. This role will be to support the Reservations squad comprising multiple teams across several products, based across UK and Romania so occasional travel will be required. There is a wide tech stack including AWS, Azure, PHP, Laravel, MVC.NET, C#.NET, React, MongoDB and, SQL Server. The products operate at scale and need to be highly available for our customers. Preserving the customer experience is critical to all of Access. Your role will be crucial in helping the team continue to deliver a highly scalable and highly available operation. We are also a security first organization putting security to the top of the priority list. Understanding security principles, secure software development practices and being able to assess risks is key for success in this domain.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Lead & drive the software engineering teams to achieve high performance.
• Drive the engineering teams in best practice to build secure, available, performant solutions.
• Keep leadership informed on key initiatives and areas of challenge.
• Prioritise collaboration with key members of the wider organization to build valuable outcomes across products for our customers.
• Lead, develop and manage the performance of the team to ensure that they have the skills and support to achieve their potential and meet business needs. Motivate the team to strive for high performance.
• Develop a culture of end-to-end ownership and a focus on autonomy within the teams.
• Implement best practice working practices with an agile mindset. Encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration across the wider portfolio of products.
• Work closely with other functions to ensure customer outcomes are understood and achieved.
• Use programming experience to provide technical guidance, clear thinking and commercially pragmatic decision-making; lead & mentor teams to make better decisions.
• Drive a DevOps culture with a focus on cloud native delivery and strong CICD pipelines; motivate teams toward pervasive use of automation and achieve fast flow.
• Ensure teams build measurements into everything they do creating fast feedback loops.
• Own people leadership across the team, including objective setting, performance management and drive a growth agenda.

Your Skills and Experiences likely include:

• At least 15 years' experience, with at least 3 in a similar role
• Experienced former developer ideally to senior level before switching to management (ability to adapt to frameworks or technologies is important)
• Experience of managing all aspects of team and product performance including line management, SaaS, design and architecture, process, continuous improvement, and secure software development
• Experience managing remote teams
• Experience creating and driving high performing teams
• Strong customer focus
• Must be a strong advocate for the use of AI in engineering cycles and demonstrate this through own work supporting others in adoption and engagement

What are we all about?

The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered business management software providers. It provides solutions that empower more than 160,000 small and mid-sized organisations in commercial and non-profit sectors across Europe, USA and APAC, giving every employee the freedom to do more of what's important. Its innovative cloud solutions and integrated AI software experience across multiple Access products transform how business technology is used. Access employs approx. 8,500 people, continuously driving product innovation and customer service excellence.

At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity.

Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together.

Love Work. Love Life. Be You.