Engineering Manager (12 month FTC)

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Company Description

We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.

Job Description

As an Engineering Manager at ASOS, your primary responsibility is to the people you manage ensuring they grow as engineers, assisting them in their personal and professional development and of course ensuring they are having a great time at ASOS!

You will manage several multi-disciplined engineers across several platform teams with different priorities, supporting through regular catch ups, reviews and personal development planning.

As you will be interacting with engineers across different teams, you will be expected to look out for common themes or problems, that when addressed would make ASOS a better place for engineers to work or would help improve the efficiency of delivery.

You will work closely with the Engineering Manager peers to deliver cross-team changes as part of the community delivery plans.

In this highly collaborative role you will need to work closely with your engineers and others, whether that's within the delivery teams, the coaching and competency crew, wider technology department or ASOS-wide teams such as our People Experience teams.

Job Description

What You'll be Doing

• Line managing up to 20 engineers, setting objectives and creating suitable Personal Development Plans
• Through mentoring and coaching ensuring engineers and teams are high-performing, consistently and iteratively delivering high-impact, high quality work.
• Continuously assess your team's approach and process maturity (with suitable techniques and metrics), and coach them to adopt and adapt Agile methods for successful and sustainable delivery.
• Partner with leaders and teams across ASOS to share your knowledge and drive organisational change and improvement
• Ensure your engineers have the relevant skills (via training, coaching etc.) to deliver business priorities
• Identify trends and concerns amongst engineers and engineering teams and directly address.
• Help attract and recruit the best engineering talent.

What Success Looks Like

• Build a high performing, diverse group of engineers who have the technical and personal skills and knowledge to deliver the business priorities
• Your team all have clear career goals and development plans that are being activity used
• You have a strong relationship with delivery teams and understand what they are focusing on
• Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

Qualifications

Who We'd Like to Meet

• A proven track record and passion for developing and growing people.
• Demonstrable experience in leading, managing and coaching engineers.
• Experience working across multiple business areas, building relationships with key stakeholders.
• An advanced understanding in the fundamentals of Software Engineering, Agile methodologies and frameworks.
• Experience acting in a role such as Agile Delivery Manager, Engineering Manager, Development Manager or ScrumMaster.
• Familiarity in using data to help with problem solving, influencing people and creating meaningful change, but the trust in yourself to make quick decisions when needed.

Additional Information

What's in it for you?

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
• Employee sample sales
• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
• Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
• Private medical care scheme
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits

Our Commitments

We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That's why we're committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how're we doing it?

We're proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We've also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.

We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people, find out more here.

How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an assessment or you have requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process - just let us know by email or phone, whatever works best for you. It's also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.

If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.