Engineering Manager

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for providing technical leadership to all engineering and development areas across your domain, developing and executing an engineering strategy aligned to the portfolio and global tech strategies.

Working in the Design and Platform Performance domain, you will lead the technology side of web and mobile analytics for a platform with over 50 million visits each month, deliver the best user experiences and personalisation for talent and talent seekers. We built in-house large scale tracking platform, powered by Tealium, Kafka and Adobe Analytics, and successfully rolled it out to 10 of our brands. Along with the tracking we are owners of our AB testing tool Optimizely, our in-house Design System Genesys and Frontend Framework, which when put together powers the product development at scale using a data driven approach.

You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody. 

Your responsibilities:  

• Managing and mentoring engineering professionals in your teams and domain, setting objectives for your teams and domain, owning the delivery of the outcomes, monitoring ongoing progress and performance within the OKR framework
• Partnering with your product manager, other engineering managers, staff engineers, architect, agile coach and engineering director to formulate a domain level technical strategy
• Building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Facilitate communication between teams under your leadership and enabling free exchange of information within your sphere of influence, developing appropriate organisational structure together with the Engineering Director
• Resourcing of plans to support the business objectives and working with the Engineering Director on budgeting within the domain

• Experience of providing technical leadership to an engineering team; with excellent analytical, problem solving and influencing skills, resilient, open to change and results oriented
• Experience of coding and testing of analytics tracking code using Tealium iQ, Tealium Event Stream, and Adobe Analytics
• Experience of integrating data sources via web and hypermedia APIs
• Proficient in Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Next.js and Node.js, and in event-driven and eventual consistency systems using Kafka, .Net, Java, REST APIs, AWS, Terraform and DevOps
• Nice to have: experience in data pipping and modelling using SQL, DBT, ETL, Data Warehousing, Redshift and Python, and ecommerce and mobile applications background

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)