• Own the Projects stream end to end — delivery oversight, team health, intake management, and capacity planning across all pods• Act as the primary interface between the Projects stream and the Product Team• Build and maintain a clear view of team capacity and project timelines, making this visible to stakeholders• Sequence and allocate work across pods as projects complete and new ones begin, matching the right pod to the right engagement• Line manage senior engineers acting as pod leads, providing regular 1:1s, feedback, and support for their professional development• Define and embed clear progression pathways within the Projects stream, supporting engineers at every level from graduate to senior• Foster a strong team culture across pods, ensuring engineers feel connected to the wider Projects mission and not siloed within their individual project• Work with the broader engineering leadership team across all streams on cross-team initiatives, resourcing, and team-wide improvements• Establish and maintain a lightweight intake process for new project requests• Adapt delivery methodologies to the nature of each project• Identify and address delivery risks early, escalating where appropriate and removing blockers for pod leads• Collaborate with the Engineering Manager and other stream leads on resourcing, hiring, and team strategy
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and managing teams of senior software engineers, with a track record of growing and developing engineering talent
- Strong stakeholder management skills — comfortable challenging scope, managing expectations, and representing engineering interests with product, commercial, and client-facing teams
- Experience managing concurrent delivery across multiple workstreams or projects simultaneously
- Technical credibility — enough engineering background to be respected by senior engineers, review technical decisions, and understand delivery risk
- Experience building or improving engineering processes in fast-moving environments where structure has been lacking
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in a client-facing or professional services delivery environment
- Familiarity with regulatory technology, financial services, or data-heavy engineering domains
- Experience with GitLab or similar tools for project and delivery tracking
- Background as a software engineer, ideally with Python experience
- Familiarity with a range of delivery methodologies — kanban, scrum, and ad hoc project structures
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Hard Skills
- Python
- GitLab
- delivery methodologies
- kanban
- scrum
- project management
- capacity planning
- risk management
- engineering processes
- technical decision review
Soft Skills
- team management
- stakeholder management
- communication
- feedback
- professional development
- team culture
- collaboration
- problem-solving
- adaptability
- leadership
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