Senior Engineering Manager

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and support our current team of Engineering Managers. You’ll combine strategic thinking with hands-on leadership and will play a key role in driving technical excellence, mentoring Engineering Managers and their teams, and shaping the future of our Engineering function.

With a strong technical foundation, and ideally an Engineering background, you’ll have a passion for innovation and will thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. You’ll navigate large-scale challenges, manage ambiguity, and drive organisational success.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys balancing people leadership, technical oversight, and strategic impact, all while making a difference in a HealthTech scale up.

Who are you?

• You’re passionate about using technology to innovate in the healthcare space.
• You inspire and guide teams to achieve ambitious goals while creating a culture of collaboration and ownership.
• You set clear direction, prioritise effectively, and lead change with confidence.
• You build and develop high-performing teams with efficient structures, lean processes, and a data-driven engineering culture.
• You bring strong technical expertise and are comfortable engaging in technical and architectural discussions, as well as explaining complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
• You thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments, embracing a growth mindset and managing ambiguity with ease.
• You collaborate effectively across functions, aligning Product, Design, and other teams to deliver impactful results.
• You mentor and develop engineers and leaders, helping them grow their skills, careers, and impact.

OK, that’s me, but who are DrDoctor?
Take a look at our careers page () to find out a bit more about our mission, vision, and impact! Ultimately, we the NHS and want to help it work better. We radically transform the delivery of health services to make healthcare work for everyone – for patients, doctors, administrative teams and taxpayers.

What would I be doing day to day?
As a Senior Engineering Manager, no two days will be the same, and you’ll have the chance to tackle challenges beyond the usual day-to-day operations.

Your key focuses will be:

• Leading the Engineering Management Team
• Shaping team topology, designing team structures to support growth and efficiency
• Elevating performance by refining practices and processes. You’ll set patterns and guidelines which will enable Engineers to focus on complex problems
• Improving operations by enhancing security, support, and incident management to minimise user impact.
• Developing careers and creating pathways for growth, supporting individual contributors and leaders alike.
• Driving technical excellence, advocating for the adoption of best practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, and code quality to improve the overall health of our applications.
• Partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Supporting Engineers’ growth while encouraging creativity and continuous improvement
• Leading strategically, aligning technical and operational strategies with business priorities.
• Managing stakeholders and ensuring clear communication and alignment across business and engineering teams

OK, I’m interested. What experience do I need to have?

• You’ll have successfully delivered cultural change at all levels of an Engineering function previously
• Proven ability to use evidence to identify priorities and set strategic goals
• Leader of leaders with experience guiding teams and individuals through periods of growth and change
• Coaching and developing teams through complex changes in architecture and domain ownership
• Establishing tech guidelines to ensure a high technical standard whilst giving room for creativity
• Technical background and familiarity with distributed architectures
• Ability to identify and articulate the technological and organisational needs now and for the future, representing these at Exec level
• Experience in a similar regulated industry is a significant advantage, it would be a bonus if that was within HealthTech or Digital Health.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with Azure tools and eco-system
• Previous use of logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Datadog & Pingdom.
• Familiarity with healthcare software, EMR/EHR systems, and relevant industry knowledge

We know from research and experience that candidates may not apply if they don’t think they meet 100% of our requirements. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you would be a good fit, we would still love to hear from you. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture!

What are the next steps?
We are currently recruiting actively and have a lot of CVs to go through. We will be in touch in a few days to let you know if we think we might be a match or not. We’re interviewing for this position already so don’t hesitate to apply if you think this sounds like something you could be interested in.

We know there are a lot of great roles out there, so we will make sure to get through the rounds as quickly as possible. All we ask is you keep us up to date with your plans.

I can’t wait to get started, what are the perks?
We keep all of our Perks and Benefits updated on our careers page – we like to think there is something for everyone!

As DrDoctor has grown, we are seeing more of our people wanting to socialise in different ways.

Whilst we know that some of us love to go to the pub, we want to make sure we are including a wide variety of activities and events for our teams to enjoy each other’s company, we aim to continue creating an open space for anyone and everyone to suggest how they’d like to spend time with their teams.

We love our Summer and Christmas parties and regularly organise company/team socials and away days. Over the last year we’ve celebrated Holi Festival, International Women’s Day, Pride, and our 12th Birthday!

Salary banding for this role is: £90,000 to £100,000

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