Company Description
Meet Unit4. With over 40 years of heritage, we’re an agile, fast growing, Cloud company that is on a mission to redefine Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for mid-market people-centric organisations.
With our innovative, self-driving, adaptive and intuitive software, our customers can spend more time on meaningful high-value work.
At the heart of what we do lies a simple yet profound purpose: Improve how people work by focusing on what truly matters. — A powerful statement that enables different priorities for different people.
We’re shaping how work should feel, and we empower our people by providing them with the right tools to achieve the autonomy they need - it's what makes us unique.
Job Description
This position is in the HCM/Payroll-Engineering area. Teams reporting to this role and organizational structure will be determined based on final candidate’s experience and background.
As Senior Engineer Manager, you will be responsible for managing engineering teams and overseeing project execution. Making sure we deliver quality software and operational services with the right cloud architecture in a timely manner.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery and continuous improvement of Engineering practice, while meeting the needs of our customers and supporting overall business objectives.
Areas of responsibilities
- Team Management and Mentorship: Responsible for workforce planning, in terms of readiness, performance and sustainability. Ensuring that the proper people management activities are in place within the practice domain or teams. This includes planning ahead, setting clear performance expectations, providing guidance and mentorship, developing team members to enhance their skills and performance and conduct performance reviews.
- Project and Resource Management: Responsible for overseeing the successful execution of engineering projects. This involves coordinating with other teams or departments, managing project schedules and priorities, allocating resources effectively. Ensure projects are completed on time and within budget, with high quality based on right architecture.
- Collaboration and Communication: Ensuring teams are properly informed and guided. Expected to lead by example with a strong display of ownership, promoting a collaborative approach within the respective engineering teams and across the organization. Breaking down silos and fostering a positive culture of teamwork, communication, and shared goals across the engineering areas and teams. Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and provide updates on project progress and challenges.
- Process Improvement and Operational Excellence: A Senior Engineering Manager should drive process improvement initiatives to increase productivity, efficiency, and quality. This might involve implementing agile methodologies, optimizing development processes, ensuring responsibilities fall under the right roles and promoting best practices within the engineering team.
- Strategy ambassador: Identifying areas for improvement, implementing new initiatives, and managing the transition process to ensure successful adoption of strategic changes. Responsible for monitoring the progress of strategic initiatives and evaluating their impact on the organization. Setting in motion any required action to ensure correct implementation within the area of responsibility, in alignment with the CPTO LT.
Qualifications
Your background, skills and personal qualifications:
- Previous experience as Engineer Manager having led several engineering projects in that capacity.
- Experience in software development methodologies, including Agile and Scrum product management practice and methodology preferred.
- Familiarization with cloud delivery operations ideally & DevOps & product Management.
- Well-developed technical understanding and align efficiently with technical experts in the organization, in order to properly ensure people and engineering management activities with respective technical context. Should stay updated with emerging technologies, CPTO governance directions, industry best practices, and trends, and ensure their teams to be up to date.
- Leadership qualities such as vision, integrity, resilience, and ability to inspire and motivate individuals and engineering teams to achieve their goals, providing guidance and direction. Ability to build and foster a positive team culture, promote collaboration, and resolve conflicts within the team across different teams, and functions across CPTO and U4. Good experience in coaching, mentoring.
- Strategic mindset to align engineering efforts with the overall business objectives and long-term goals of the CPTO organization.
- Strong problem-solving skills are needed to address challenges, overcome obstacles, and drive execution.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field. A degree in computer science, engineering, or physics is advantageous.
- Fluency in English, both spoken and written.
Additional Information
Who we are?
We are a people-first community that nurtures all the areas that surround your working experience. With us, you’ll be surrounded by a high-performance team that supports your authentic self and celebrates your uniqueness.
We believe that ‘How work should feel’ is an evolving statement. Work goes beyond tasks and everyday responsibilities it’s about feeling valued, empowered, promoted, impactful, seen, and appreciated.
We are reimagining how work makes people feel.
What we offer?
- a culture built on trust and accountability - giving you the freedom and autonomy to be successful and make an impact
- balance - with our Flexible Leave Paid Time Off policy, remote working opportunities, Global Wellbeing Days, and other great benefits
- growth opportunities - we provide the tools and guidance required so that you can focus on what really matters to you and so, ultimately, you can achieve your best work
- talented colleagues, role models and mentors - work, learn and be inspired by some of the best talent in the software industry
- a commitment to sustainability - with initiatives such as our Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy and Act4Good programme
- a safe and inclusive working environment – supported by our Employee Resource Groups, which are open to all.
Our commitment to equity
Unit4 is committed to ensuring equal opportunity for everyone. We make our hiring decisions solely based on skills, qualifications, and our current business needs. We know that diversity brings fresh perspectives, ideas, and solutions to our company. This is the essence of our culture. We also welcome and encourage people who are pregnant and/or parents-to-be to apply. If you would like to know more about our commitment to diversity, visit our blogs:
This role may require security clearance required for customer projects and access to sensitive (customer) data. That means that after you have accepted our offer, we could ask for background checks. Subject to applicable local laws, such security checks may require disclosure of personal information including criminal record declaration, right to work, personal identification and work history. No worries though – we'll handle it according to local privacy laws and keep your info safe. Questions? Feel free to reach out!
