Description
As an Engineering Manager, you will serve as the delivery counterpart to the client’s engineering leadership. You will play a pivotal role in engineering the UK’s Sovereign Digital Airspace Backbone by connecting technical execution, product priorities, assurance evidence, dependencies, and stakeholder decisions. Your primary objective is to turn the complex, multi-vendor OpenAir scope into controlled plans, establishing a predictable delivery rhythm and driving successful build-readiness outcomes.
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Requirements
- Domain Expertise: A strong mix of product, technology, and programme delivery experience. Proven background delivering within highly regulated, safety-critical, or complex domains such as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), AI-enabled operations, data platforms, telecom, or critical energy.
- Delivery Methodologies: Deep expertise in Agile/Scrumban delivery frameworks, with a track record of driving sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative delivery in environments with upfront requirement uncertainty.
- Stakeholder Management: Exceptional capability to interface directly with senior client engineering leadership and translate highly complex technical scopes into transparent, manageable project plans.
- System-of-Systems Experience: Prior experience delivering distributed, multi-party enterprise architectures or event-driven digital backbones is highly desirable
Job responsibilities
- Delivery Leadership & Planning: Lead overall engineering delivery, sprint planning, and backlog ownership across the OpenAir design, prototype, and build phases.
- Technical & Product Alignment: Act as the bridge between technical execution and product priorities, ensuring that engineering outputs strictly align with client Service Requirements and stakeholder decisions.
- Build-Readiness & Execution: Coordinate build-readiness and manage the delivery rhythm, translating complex requirements into controlled, executable delivery plans.
- Multi-Vendor & Dependency Management: Manage complex dependencies across a multi-vendor ecosystem (including technology partners like Boomi and Solace, and third-party UTM product vendors), ensuring seamless integration and issue resolution.
- Assurance & Evidence Coordination: Ensure that engineering delivery seamlessly connects with assurance evidence requirements (such as ED-109A AL4 safety baseline standards), working closely with QA and Assurance Leads.
„One-Team“ Collaboration: Work natively with embedded client personnel (including theDeputy PM, Assurance Experts, and Subject Matter Experts) and co-locate 2-3 days a week at the client office to foster deep trust, avoid sequential handovers, and run joint design/development workshops. - Distributed Team Coordination: Partner with the Nearshore Engineering Manager and the offshore delivery centers (e.g., Poland/Romania) to scale engineering, platform, data, and testing capacity effectively.
What we offer
Our goal is to build an inclusive positive culture where everyone can feel comfortable being themselves, empowering people to create their own high standards and therefore more value. We work together to promote fairness while recognising, valuing and embracing differences – providing a transparent support structure and generous training budget to help our people develop skills to progress their career. Our region supports a hybrid model that can flex across a wide spectrum of working options determined by business, customer and individual needs.
You'll benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plan, private healthcare (clinical and mental wellbeing), discounted gym memberships, and in office yoga sessions and massages. We offer a fantastic benefits package including a competitive pension scheme and recognition schemes through bonus/reward initiatives. Colleagues are entitled to an annual volunteering day – so you can take time to support a cause close to your heart. We also love to stay social with trips to the zoo, quiz nights, sports events, theatre trips and much more.
We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and we actively welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition. As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for this vacancy.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments. If you require any adjustments for the application process, the interview, or the job itself, or if you need this information in an accessible format, please contact uki-careers@globallogic.com.
About GlobalLogic
GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.
