Engineering Manager

Your responsibilities:   Drive delivery excellence by establishing clear planning, prioritisation and execution practices that ensure predictable, high-quality outcomes. Collaborate across the business with Product, Data, Architecture and Engineering teams to translate business needs into impactful platform solutions. Provide technical leadership by guiding architecture and design decisions, ensuring scalability, reliability and security. Enhance engineering effectiveness by championing AI-assisted development, automation and continuous improvement initiatives. Build and grow high-performing teams through coaching, mentoring and fostering an inclusive, supportive engineering culture. Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, with a track record of improving delivery and team performance. Strong background in data platforms, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS). Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures and streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka). Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working across cross-functional teams. A balanced approach to technical leadership and people development, with a passion for building scalable platforms and enabling teams to succeed. At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.  Join our team of 3,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job platform.  We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:  29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays   Private medical and dental healthcare   Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)   24/7 Employee Assistance Programme  Life Assurance Cover   Cycle to work scheme   Hybrid working model (3 days working from the office) Volunteering days   and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!   Our commitment  Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.   As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:   Armed Forces Covenant: Silver Award, Employer Recognition Scheme  EcoVadis: Bronze Award  Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work  RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024  Stonewall: Gold Award  Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)