Senior Software Engineering Manager

Our in-house software solutions include a Content Management platform supporting multiple websites, Event and Activity Management web applications, Online Fundraising platform, Payments platform, Ecommerce and mobile apps. These are business critical systems under continual agile development, operating at scale for millions of users such as: cancer patients looking for information, supporters and volunteers helping with fundraising, c.600+ stores, c.4,000+ office staff, and researchers working towards curing cancer., We are searching for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our highly skilled, cross-disciplined, and diverse Software Engineering capability (c.25-30 staff including Front-End, Back-End, and Integration) which supports the charity's product development whilst establishing an agile, secure, and smooth-running digital workplace. The purpose of your role will be to deliver our software engineering strategy while providing technical leadership that develops the teams' skills and careers and encourages innovation by setting up small multi-skilled product teams empowered to make decisions and prioritise their work. If you are an Engineering leader who has led and developed software engineering teams in large organisations, we would love for you to join our mission. What will I be doing?

• Leading Cancer Research UK's Software Engineering capability (c.25 to 30 staff) by:
+ Evolving and delivering the Software Engineering Strategy. + Developing platforms and products that are reliable, secure, performant, and flexible. + Recruiting and supporting software engineers' career development. + Providing expert technical guidance and motivational leadership.
• Line managing, leading and developing an inclusive and high-functioning team by:
+ Creating a positive culture which recognises success, develops and drives high performance and rewards results to retain talent within the team and wider function.
• Further developing the Software Engineering capability by collaborating with Lead Engineers to develop standards and reusable assets and encourage knowledge sharing (the current capabilities include Front-End, Back-End, and Integration).
• Partnering with internal and external stakeholders ensuring a mature approach to architecting new solutions, giving estimates and commitments; and delivering on agreed commitments while optimising the efficiency of the team.
• Fostering collaborative relationships with the others in the Engineering first-line team and across the Technology directorate to ensure appropriate levels of governance, platform reliability, efficiency and quality of delivery.
• Embodying Cancer Research UK's leadership behaviours by:
+ Driving for impact by aiming high, creating clarity, and acting decisively. + Embracing our mission as a collective effort. + Creating an environment where our Software Engineering team can do impactful work by enabling ownership and building an inclusive workplace. + Fostering conditions where ideas and fresh approaches thrive by being curious and valuing challenges and ideas., Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.


• Experienced engineering leader who has recruited, developed, and engaged software engineering teams in large, complex organisations.
• Excellent knowledge of the fast-moving technology landscape with a particular focus on cloud engineering and knowledge of:
+ Current best practices (e.g. BDD, CI/CD). + Architectural approaches and their future direction (e.g. modern front-end development/single-page applications, serverless services, infrastructure-as-code). + Full-stack JavaScript (React/Node JS) utilising AWS serverless services (e.g. Amplify, Lambda, Aurora).
• A comprehensive understanding of the software delivery lifecycle and different approaches (including DevOps and Agile).
• Has matured software engineering practices by retaining ambition and agility while establishing robust approaches fit for business-critical applications.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate highly technical subjects for non-technical audiences.
• A technical expert and a motivational leader with mature stakeholder management skills.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do. Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism, We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you. Cancer Research UK has an ambitious Engineering Strategy and modern with a complex hybrid (on-premise & multi-cloud) infrastructure underpinning an extensive technical estate. As part of our strategy, the charity is delivering a range of ambitious, modern change initiatives and programmes across the organisation to ensure we maximise the value of all our resources while delivering operational transformation & management and an employee experience that enables us to be an inclusive, well-governed, agile, and sustainable organisation. Therefore, our software delivery lifecycle, DevOps, full-stack, and integration technologies must operate securely and scale to meet the organisation's needs if we are to deliver our strategy of beating cancer.