Associate Engineering Manager - London, United Kingdom - The Stepstone Group

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    Job Description

    The job at a glance

    Join our team and you'll be responsible for working on excellent engineering and managing a team. As a manager, you will be trusted by your team, work with them individually and as a group to help achieve their goals and commitments, and listen, support, mentor, coach, and help them grow to their full potential. As an engineer, you will communicate technical concepts to a varied audience of stakeholders across the business, and together with product owners, scrum masters and business analysts you will be accountable for the results and delivery of the team, with a focus on innovation.

    Working in the Data and BI domain, you will gain valuable experience and progress your career, using newer technologies and defining best practices to deliver a self-service BI model for the wider organisation.

    This is so important to us. By joining our team, you will be playing a vital role as together we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.​

    Your responsibilities

  • Line management, coaching, career progression, planning and growth, for one or two engineering teams, Ensuring that the team is staffed appropriately and protecting its health and having Accountability for the successful delivery of the team's commitments
  • Ensuring that excellent engineering and innovation are part of every delivery iteration and the team's roadmap and developing the engineering culture of their team and domain, in the context of the organizational engineering strategy (rapid hypothesis testing, learning from failure, automation, SecDevOps culture)
  • Ensuring effective technical knowledge is shared within the team and in collaboration with other teams and Associate Engineering Managers
  • Awareness of barriers to innovation, and planning for their removal (through training, removal of technical debt, or other means)
  • Occasionally, being able to lend hands-on support to the team working on and using the following technologies: Data Warehousing, Data Modelling, Database Design, ETL, AWS Redshift, SQL Server, Power BI, Cloud/DevOps – AWS, Docker, Terraform, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Team City, Octopus CI/CD deploy pipeline, Agile, pair programming, code reviews, Python, C#, Java, Data Lakes, Crawlers, Event Sourcing and Data Mesh
  • Qualifications

    Your skills and Qualifications

  • People Leader: able to line manage others in line with the organizational policies and adaptable to each individual needs, with a focus on team growth, engagement, ownership and belonging
  • Collaborator: able to lead by example in collaboration with the team, their support network, and their stakeholders
  • Good Communicator: clearly connects and communicates with developers, product owners, stakeholders, and the domain's support/leadership team
  • Emotional Intelligence and Inclusive Mindset: able to communicate reasoning in clear and simple terms to a diverse audience, flexibility to take different viewpoints and experiences, committed to their own personal and professional growth and that of others, behaves with dignity and respect towards everyone
  • Delivery focused: focuses on the delivery of value efficiently and iteratively, and is responsible for fulfilling the team's commitments
  • Additional Information

    Our commitment

    Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.