Senior Manager, Engineering Lead, Technology and Digital Services

Connect to your Industry

Our purpose globally is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and so we are focused on building a firm where everyone can thrive and do their best work, one that is truly inclusive and reflective of society and has our shared values at its core. In Deloitte UK, we have an opportunity to ensure that our people experience ambition, together with our purpose and shared values are truly activated locally and embedded into the core of our business.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

As an Engineering Lead you will be joining the UK Digital Services team within our Enabling Functions. Our purpose as a team is to engage with and co-create consumer grade digital experiences for our own employees so that they feel supported and inspired by the firm. In this role, you will be responsible for leading our product development team from an engineering perspective, and will act as the lead Creative Heart of the engineering team.

This role consists of a blend of thought leadership - both technical and product development, hands on work, and building a strong network within the business. You will be a lead-by example leader for the team, drive and nurture a culture of self-organised and accountability within the team and engineers in particular.

You will be passionate about architecting and helping build secure, scalable web and native applications on cloud platforms. You will have commercial experience delivering solutions on technologies like .NET Core, C#, SQL Server, NodeJs, and PostGres on the Azure Cloud platform with Azure DevOps.6 and have delivered both mobile and desktop solutions.

Key responsibilities

Specifically, you will:

• Take an active role in product innovation – leading by example by suggesting new technologies, approaches that we could leverage
• Proactively make recommendations for enhancements to our delivery processes, and ensure adherence by our engineering team to the process
• To work with lead engineers to identify, plan implement new best practices, tech upgrades etc (e.g. pipeline set ups, use of GitHub, Nod convo etc etc)
• To proactively support in the architectural design of our products and identify emerging risks
• Provide technical solution guidance to the scrum team, support the resolution of blockers and escalate unresolved blockers to the Digital Briefcase leadership team
• Produce technical diagrams and documents where necessary to provide clarity to the development teams to work efficiently
• Work closely with DevOps engineer and oversee DevOps activities such as CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps
• Work with NSE Cloud, Member Firm and Global teams to raise and resolve infrastructure-related issues
• Identify new tools and processes to improve the development and delivery of applications and automate processes
• Undertake mentoring responsibilities for junior developers
• Resource planning and allocation (in collaboration with our delivery lead)
• Develop a deep understanding of our IT GTOM process, acting as the engineering SME and driving compliance with it across the team
• Building a network within Deloitte IT to smooth out our delivery process and unblock key challenges

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You are in a leadership position and seen as a role model within the Digital Service team. We are looking for someone to leverage accrued experiences to challenge set working conventions and innovate to reduce inefficiencies and create a creative, accountable, and driven culture.

Skills and experience

• You should have the ability to map business opportunity to best suitable and feasible technical choices for both production readiness and quick innovation spikes
• You invest your time in developing individuals and are comfortable delegating responsibilities among team members whilst retaining ultimate accountability for their work
• You will have experience of forming and spearheading a united and collaborative engineering leadership to build modern, scalable, and maintainable solutions
• You will have extensive experience in technical project execution/leadership, designing, building and deploying enterprise solutions with exposure to multiple software packages/vendors, programming languages and technology platforms with analytics
• You will be have extensive experience of Azure PaaS services: Azure App Services, Azure SQL DB, Azure data factory, Azure Storage, Cosmos DB etc
• You will have a T shaped profile with a practical working knowledge of Programming Languages: .Net Core, C#, T-SQL, NodeJs, Javascript, React, SwiftUi
• You are well versed in managing a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps
• IT project and product management experience and knowledge of application lifecycle management (ALM) methodologies, including Agile and Scrum
• Ability to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly and pass on to other team members
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong communicator and decision-maker
• Any Administrator / DevOps / Security certification on the Azure platform will be beneficial

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you'll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The support that Deloitte offers is great, and the work is always interesting and motivating.” -Jim, Enabling Functions

"Deloitte's a large, complex and fast-paced organisation but it's open to new ideas. Everyone is encouraged to show initiative and challenge the norm.” -Lisa, Enabling Functions

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in United Kingdom with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

WPFULL SLICSS LOCOFFICE