Citi Group SRE Engineering Manager 

United Kingdom, England, London 

919439299

As an Engineering Manager you will improve the productivity of engineers, create effective reporting mechanisms, and ensure timely and budget-conscious completion of work within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. You will play a crucial role in driving operational excellence, fostering collaboration, and enabling efficient project management. This position requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership abilities, and exceptional organisational skills.

Skills:

• Technical Proficiency: Possess a strong understanding of SRE principles, DevOps practices, and relevant technologies to effectively guide and support engineering teams.

• Project Management: Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, set priorities, allocate resources, and ensure timely completion within budget constraints.

• Analytical Thinking: Demonstrate a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making, utilising metrics, and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement opportunities.

• Leadership: Exhibit strong leadership qualities, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment, providing guidance and mentorship to team members, and promoting a culture of continuous learning.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and management.

• Stakeholder Management: Ability to understand and address the needs of various stakeholders, including engineers, product managers, and business partners.

• Process Improvement: Proven experience in streamlining workflows, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing process enhancements to optimise efficiency and productivity.

• Budget Management: Familiarity with budgeting and cost control practices, ensuring projects are delivered within financial constraints while maintaining quality standards.

• Quality Assurance: Knowledge of quality assurance principles and best practices to ensure deliverables meet defined standards and specifications.

• Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, quickly adapting to changing priorities and business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Be both highly technical and an effective people manager

• Lead multiple teams that deliver on multiple projects of increasing dependencies in an ambiguous and high-impact area

• Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives, and have an impact at an organisational level

• Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals

• Partner with leadership to influence and drive org design, contribution, and prioritization

• Lead a team of engineers and product managers in the ideation and technical development of innovative projects to streamline and automate critical business challenges

• Provide strategic and operational oversight for software initiatives in Production Management

• Work closely with business aligned SRE leads to develop short and long-term strategies

• Manage stakeholder expectations, resolve conflicts, and keep everyone involved aligned

• Develop and drive execution on 6 month and 1 year road maps

• Drive innovation, establish new approaches in improving productivity

• Establish a metrics-based organization, develop key operational metrics and push for continuous improvement

• Ensure system security, data integrity and compliance for regulatory requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (computer science or related fields) or equivalent experience in building scalable solutions to improve the service reliability and/or increase productivity and efficiency

• Experience with object-oriented or scripting programming languages such as Java or Python to build DevOps/SRE solutions

• Experience with agile systems development methodologies

• Relevant experience managing engineering teams

• Organisational and analytical skills

What we’ll provide you:

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• A discretional annual performance related bonus

• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Pension Plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends

• Access to an array of learning and development resources

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