Team Manager, Software Engineer

Team Manager, Software Engineering Division: Assessment & Qualifications Delivery Location: United Kingdom About Pearson Qualifications

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About the job

As an Engineering Manager, you will guide and empower a team of expert engineers and managers to deliver high quality software solutions that drive business transformation. You'll champion engineering rigor, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and ensure best practices are consistently applied. By enabling AI driven software engineering and supporting project delivery, you'll help shape the future of technology at Pearson while developing talent and driving impactful results.

The Engineering Manager will ensure effective day to day delivery and alignment with departmental goals, facilitating the planning and prioritisation of features, providing regular coaching and feedback, and driving the adoption of consistent coding, testing and documentation standards. The role bridges technical execution with the needs of the business, allocating team resources, managing escalations, and recommending process improvements. They track releases, address delivery risks swiftly and maintain documentation accuracy, ensuring blockers are resolved transparently and that the unit's outputs support wider product and organisational objectives.

About you

We'd expect that you can demonstrate delivery of several business critical projects managing multiple high performing software engineering teams, developing solutions that provide real benefit to users, and working in an Agile project delivery environment using Scrum or Kanban.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a diverse team of Expert Software Engineers, Quality Engineers, Software Engineering Managers, and Quality Engineering Managers to achieve their full potential.
• Drive successful project delivery by planning, prioritising, and allocating resources to meet sprint commitments and business goals.
• Enable engineering rigor by promoting consistent coding, testing, and documentation standards across teams.
• Ensure engineering best practices are followed, identifying and implementing process improvements for sustained quality.
• Champion the adoption of AI enabled software engineering solutions to streamline workflows and enhance product innovation.
• Address delivery risks and blockers swiftly, maintaining transparency and supporting continuous improvement.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Advanced collaboration and communication skills to inspire and align cross functional teams.
• Strong technical acumen in software design, development, and delivery.
• Proven ability to apply engineering best practices and drive process improvements.
• Experience with AI technologies and their application in software engineering.
• Effective problem solving and adaptability in dynamic environments.
• Commitment to ethical responsibility, information security and data protection.

Qualifications (Education & Experience)

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Agile accreditation.
• Significant experience in software engineering management, including direct people leadership.
• Demonstrated success in delivering complex projects and enabling engineering excellence.
• Experience working with AI driven solutions is highly desirable.

Job Location and Hours

We work a 37.5 hour week, with all our team free to flex their day around our core hours, which are Monday to Friday, 10 to 4 GMT/BST.

All our roles are hybrid working; for this role, that means working from your base office at least once a week. Occasional business travel to other Pearson sites may also be required.

There is a requirement to provide occasional out of hours support during business critical periods.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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