Technical Engineering Manager

Critical Aspects to Emphasise:

• Clear accountability of the technology the team delivers and owns, not a proxy
• Owns the outcome of the team's work ensuring it meets the expectations of product and business goals.
• Balances priorities between feature delivery, technical debt reduction, and long-term maintainability.

Role Description:

Key Responsibilities

Technical Ownership

• Own and drive the team's technical roadmap in alignment with business, PAM and product goals/strategy
• Ensure technical debt is identified, prioritized, and systematically addressed
• Collaborate with Architects, UX Designers, and Principal Engineers to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions
• Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, security, testing, and documentation

Ways of working

• Lead, and continuously improve, the teams agile processes ensuring effective planning and execution
• Ensure the team delivers predictable, high-quality and compliant outcomes
• Honor team commitments made to timelines for strategic initiatives
• Promote fast delivery of value through experimentations and iterations
• Oversee the team's capacity planning and resource allocation
• Embrace new productivity, AI and automation tools, always striving to make the team more efficient 

Accountability for Outcomes

• Take full accountability for the team's deliverables, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Secure end-to-end deliveries by establishing collaboration and clear agreements with any other teams involved 
• Act as a single point of ownership for ensuring solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements
• Actively participate in product discussions to ensure technical feasibility and alignment
• Act as the primary driver for balancing product delivery with technical excellence

Team Leadership & People Management

• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering career growth and technical expertise
• Build and nurture a culture of ownership, accountability and collaboration within and outside of the team
• Continuously evaluate performance and provide actionable feedback to your team members, setting compensation accordingly
• Promote team wellness and engagement, driving a positive and inclusive team environment
• Recruit top talent, considering best fit, skills and dynamics for the team needs

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Serve as the key liaison between PAM, other Tech departments, product management and other stakeholders
• Clearly communicate technical challenges, risks, and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
• Ensure cross-functional alignment on priorities and deliverables
• Support your peers across the larger PAM organisation, seeing how you can help with the big picture

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or similar role
• Strong technical background in software development, with hands-on experience in system design, architecture and managing technical debt
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and improving team processes
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership and accountability for technical and business outcomes
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with a track record of building high-performing teams
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to balance strategic and tactical priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in cross-functional environments with architecture, UX, and product teams.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices and tools.
• Ability to balance technical leadership with people management responsibilities effectively.