Engineering Manager - Team Lead Engineering Roche Cloud Platform (RCP) for Multicloud

Description

You will lead an engineering team, helping each member build skills and shape their own career path.

The Multicloud team builds and runs secure, scalable enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform services across several cloud providers, so other engineering and product groups can deliver healthcare and pharmaceutical solutions quickly and safely.

Responsibilities

• Help team members build the skills their goals need, in line with the function's overall direction.
• Encourage people to define their own career path and find development chances that fit it.
• Clear obstacles and set achievable performance goals.
• Build a team with the right skills and sound internal relationships for current and future challenges.
• Keep a pace the team can sustain, balancing delivery with well-being.
• Foster psychological safety and open communication, and make sure roles are clear and people have the skills they need.
• Act as the escalation point, removing blockers to flow and morale.
• Co-create the technical side of the product or service roadmap with the product manager, who owns it overall.
• Own end-to-end feature delivery, keeping it aligned with the roadmap and quality standards.
• Set delivery focus and priorities, and escalate when needed to protect the team's focus.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and needs, sharing regular progress and risk updates.
• Find collaboration gains across teams and functions.
• Define success metrics, study workforce capability trends, and identify ways to optimise toward business goals.
• Turn data into insight and share delivery performance with stakeholders and the team.
• Introduce process improvements within the team and in its work with other teams to lift efficiency and quality.
• Help draft detailed business cases for new products or major features.
• Use data to decide how to allocate engineering, design and other resources for maximum impact.
• Manage the team budget, covering headcount, operating costs and vendor contracts.

Requirements

• 5+ years in people leadership, product or service management, programme management or a similar role, with a record of building high-performing teams.
• A bachelor's or advanced degree.
• A business or IT background.
• Understanding of software development and/or service delivery methods.
• Understanding of solution, information and process architecture.
• Deep knowledge of multicloud architecture, cloud security standards and governance across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• In-depth knowledge of distributed systems management, cloud-native infrastructure and scaling enterprise systems.
• Ability to make the outcomes your teams produce clear.
• A lean and agile mindset.
• Servant and creative leadership (VACC) behaviour.
• Keen interest in major IT market trends in your discipline.
• Executive presence, business acumen, and comfort with ambiguity and complexity.
• Manage risk step by step in ways that create opportunity.
• An enterprise mindset that breaks down silos and delivers through collaboration across organisational lines.
• Give teams and individuals room to act on their own and hold them to account.
• Intellectual curiosity, integrity and a strong drive for innovation.
• A proven record designing and running resilient multicloud architectures, robust cloud security models and large distributed systems across AWS, Azure and GCP.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunity employer.