Engineering Manager

SR2
Portsmouth
Last week
Posted
12 Apr 2026 (Last week)

Engineering Manager | Hybrid (Portsmouth)

Clearance: SC (British Citizens only)

Salary: £100,000-£110,000

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and shape a high-performing software engineering capability delivering modern, secure, cloud-native digital services within a highly regulated environment.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical direction, people leadership, and delivery oversight. You will be responsible for setting engineering standards, driving technical excellence, and ensuring consistent delivery across multiple multidisciplinary teams.

You will play a key role in defining how modern software is built, ensuring robust, scalable and secure systems are delivered in line with strict governance and security requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and grow a software engineering practice, defining standards, frameworks and ways of working

Own engineering delivery across multiple workstreams in a complex programme environment

Provide technical leadership across cloud-native architectures, microservices and API-led systems

Oversee design and delivery of secure, scalable software solutions

Work closely with senior stakeholders to translate operational and business needs into technical delivery

Drive engineering governance, ensuring alignment with security, compliance and architectural standards

Mentor and develop engineers and technical leads, raising overall capability across teams

Establish reusable engineering patterns, CI/CD pipelines and best practice delivery frameworks

We are looking for:

Proven experience leading software engineering teams in complex, multi-system environments

Strong background in AWS or Azure, microservices and modern API-led architecture

Experience delivering software in UK Defence, government or other highly regulated sectors

Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation and secure coding

Excellent leadership, coaching and stakeholder management skills

Familiarity with MOD security standards and accreditation processes

Experience with event-driven architecture and Domain Driven Design (DDD)

Background in hands-on software engineering or technical delivery leadership

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