Software Engineering Manager – UK

Salary: £60,000 – 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience shaping and delivering technology strategy in a complex engineering environment.
• Strong hands‑on experience in at least one core programming language.
• Expertise in API management, integration patterns, event‑driven architectures, and microservices.
• Strong understanding of data management, data modelling, and data quality controls.
• Ability to produce high‑level and detailed design specifications.
• Experience running DevOps practices including CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and incident management.
• Demonstrated capability in leading multi‑squad engineering execution in a product‑led organisation.
• Comfortable working in iterative, outcome‑focused, agile environments.
• Open to new tools, automation, and AI‑assisted engineering approaches.
• Highly collaborative across product, engineering, design, and operations.
• Strong problem solver with a simplification and continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience designing, integrating, and operating AI‑enabled solutions within enterprise environments.
• Ability to apply structured evaluation, testing, and monitoring practices to ensure AI outputs are reliable, secure, and compliant.
• Experience preparing and managing data used in AI workflows and supporting the responsible lifecycle of AI features from experimentation through deployment and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership across our Field Operations squads.
• Define engineering standards, architectural patterns, and technical direction to ensure our platform is scalable, resilient, and aligned with our technology strategy.
• Own the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle across multiple squads.
• Ensure our teams follow robust engineering practices across discovery, design, build, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Guide complex design decisions and technical solutioning.
• Lead technical reviews, challenge design options, and ensure our solutions follow best practice and remain maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Enhance delivery capability through platform reliability and DevOps maturity.
• Continuously improve deployment pipelines, observability, alerting, incident handling, recovery procedures, and operational readiness.
• Manage stakeholders and ensure transparent communications across product, operations, delivery, and business teams.
• Build strong relationships to coordinate plans, manage risk, align priorities, and maintain clarity of expectations.
• Drive engineering excellence and uplift team capability.
• Track, analyse, and improve engineering excellence metrics, coach engineers, and promote continuous learning and high‑quality engineering.
• Support data‑driven and API‑centric integration design.
• Ensure APIs, integrations, and data flows are designed with consistent patterns, strong data quality, security, scalability, and operational resilience.
• Improve how work is done by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, reduce technical debt, automate repetitive tasks, use AI‑assisted engineering, and enhance developer experience.
• Mentor engineers across squads and foster a strong engineering culture.
• Shape capability uplift through coaching, technical reviews, knowledge sharing, and guild or community leadership.
• Drive alignment and strategic decision‑making across technology and product teams.

Technologies

• AI
• API
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Support
• Security
• microservices
• Datadog

We are Centrica, a family of brands with around 21,000 colleagues working to create a greener, fairer future and power the planet without relying on fossil fuels. We do energy differently: we make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it. Technology is a core driver of our strategy, and this role sits within a team modernising our platforms, strengthening cyber and operational resilience, and scaling automation and AI into real end‑to‑end change. You will help build reusable platforms that support energy trading, risk, field operations, and critical infrastructure, while working in a people‑focused environment with flexible total rewards and a strong emphasis on growth, wellbeing, and purpose.

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