Job description
About you: As an Engineering Manager at Access, you'll be at the heart of empowering our engineering teams to reach new levels of performance through your guidance, innovative thinking, and leadership. Drawing from your hands-on experience as a developer, you'll feel confident jumping into technical challenges and guiding your team through modern agile practices, cloud architecture, and best methodologies. Supporting our Acteol team based in Tunisia, you’ll work on a dynamic, high-scale CRM product where security is top of mind, and preserving a seamless customer experience is essential—this may involve some travel to connect with the team and lead in person. Day-to-day, you will: • Develop and maintain a clear project plan and forecast, regularly updating Programme Management and Divisional Management with transparent progress reports on delivery against scope. • Lead and motivate software engineering teams to meet project commitments, proactively identifying and resolving any challenges to keep projects on track. • Champion best practices and operational excellence within the engineering teams, ensuring reliable and transparent deliverables aligned with project goals. • Collaborate closely with Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and Engineering Leadership to ensure alignment and successful delivery of cross-functional projects. • Oversee the performance and growth of team members, conducting regular check-ins, managing performance and development, and supporting their professional success within the organization. Your skills and experiences might also include: • Experienced former developer ideally to senior level before switching to management (ideally with .NET and React but ability to adapt more important) • Experience of managing all aspects of team and product performance including line management, SaaS, design and architecture, process, continuous improvement, and secure software development • Experience managing remote teams • Experience creating and driving high performing teams • Customer focused What does Access offer you? We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career. On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you. What are we all about? The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace. At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together. Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.