Senior Engineering Manager in Belfast

Work with and lead talented people to achieve wonderful things at Liberty IT; for this is where you’ll find complex challenges, where you’ll be given the scope and the support to go further, dig deeper and fly higher. You’ll bring the expertise. We’ll provide the support and autonomy.

Experience and skills we need

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a leadership role providing delivery, technical and people leadership to multiple teams, simultaneously.
• A minimum of three years’ recent relevant experience in playing a lead role in delivering enterprise scale solutions with a focus on customer/organisation value.
• Agile expertise and proven experience of working and coaching in agile environments.
• Good knowledge of enterprise software engineering concepts, methodologies, architectures and technical standards.
• Proven ability to successfully create a high-performing team and environment.
• Experienced in developing and implementing coaching strategies.
• Extensive experience in coaching individuals from diverse backgrounds, understanding the best approach to suit the individual.
• Experience in playing a key role in organisation level initiatives that drive a positive impact across multiple areas of the organisation.

Experience and skills we’d love

• Good knowledge and exposure of working with AI and Agentic Engineering tools.
• Experience in developing and analysing Engineering Excellence metrics with a track record of continuous improvement.

What you’ll be doing

The Senior Engineering Manager is a senior leadership role at Liberty IT, with responsibilities across 4 areas.

People

• Develop, evolve, and promote an inclusive coaching strategy across multiple teams to facilitate the creation of high performing teams.
• Utilise relevant metrics to measure team performance.
• Build, form and resource well-structured teams.
• Support Liberty IT initiatives through identifying suitable team members to resource organisation level initiatives through talent mobility and ensure Liberty IT has the right people, in the right place, at the right time of their career.
• Create and overview an environment that enables high levels of team engagement and employee engagement.
• Using relevant metrics, continuously identify areas for improvement.
• Actively partner with Talent Acquisition to hire external talent.
• Participate in relevant selection processes and ensure your teams have trained and skilled technical interviewers available to participate as needed.
• Overview onboarding of new team members sourced through internal and external recruitment initiatives.
• Ensure your teams are prepared to onboard new team members with documented and up to date processes.
• Through coaching and mentoring, develop a diverse pipeline of talent to meet future succession needs and to address any contingency resourcing needs in your teams.

Delivery

• Create and maintain a culture of delivery excellence across all teams with a focus on creating demonstrable business value.
• Enable teams to regularly deliver business value.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and create space for autonomy in delivery.
• Provide a consistent and seamless experience to our customers.
• Establish Liberty IT as a partner of choice for Liberty Mutual engineering needs.
• Actively review and improve delivery practices across your teams.
• Own and monitor organisation level delivery metrics such as customer satisfaction reports and resource utilisation.
• Using a data driven approach, continuously identify and implement improvements.
• Develop and foster a culture of demonstrable Engineering Excellence across all teams.
• Actively participate and facilitate Engineering Excellence reviews.
• Maintain high levels of Engineering Excellence.
• Actively research, learn and implement best practice Engineering Excellence practices to your teams.
• Consistently identify and introduce new software engineering capabilities to your teams.
• Proactively develop skills to ensure Liberty IT remains industry leading and is primed to address emerging Liberty Mutual needs.
• Overview and be accountable for the technical assets your teams create.
• Ensure that reuse, rent, or buy options have been researched before your teams begin to build new assets.

Liberty IT leadership

• As a Senior Leader of Liberty IT, play a key role in enabling the organisation to achieve their strategic goals.
• Partner with peers and other Senior Leaders in Liberty IT to collaborate and deliver organisation level initiatives.
• Actively share your learnings and achievements with relevant audiences in Liberty IT, Liberty Mutual and at external events.

What’s on offer

• Feel safe and secure whatever life brings, with health insurance (including access to a digital doctor), life assurance and income protection.
• Enjoy both today and tomorrow with employee discount schemes, annual bonuses and a competitive pension.
• Protect your wellbeing with flexible working and a real work-life balance.
• Specifically, we have adopted a hybrid remote and in-office working culture, meaning you have ultimate flexibility in your work environment.
• Grow yourself, your career and reputation through continuous learning, promotion opportunities and our generous recognition programme.

Fair employment and equal opportunities

Liberty IT is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusion and diversity. If you have a disability, accommodations are available on request when taking part in all aspects of the recruitment, assessment, and selection process.