Flutter

Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – gbp Evolution

Location - Leeds Office (Hybrid)

Flutter is a FTSE 50 global leader in sports betting and gaming with annual revenues of over £4bn. Its strong and diverse portfolio of market-leading brands and best-in-class products provides its 13 million customers excitement and entertainment in a safe and responsible way. Flutter brands include Paddy Power, Sky Betting & Gaming, Betfair, Sportsbet, FanDuel, and PokerStars.

The Global Betting Platform (‘gbp’) is Flutter’s flagship proprietary sports betting platform and is being used by multiple Brands across the Group to power delivery of new Sports betting features at pace. Today the gbp product enables the generate of 33% of the total Flutter Group Sportsbook online revenue and has around 1.7m active customers across the multiple brands transacting on it.

The Role...

The Engineering Manager is accountable for a Software Engineering delivery team and its software delivery. You will passionately lead a team of 5 software engineers and 1 QA engineer to deliver amazing value to our customers. You and your team will be working as part of a multiple team, multiple location environment to further evolve the gbp platform to become a truly world-class sports betting platform to power the Flutter Group to innovate and differentiate the experience we can provide to our customers across our multiple brands. Using lean and agile methodologies, you will be responsible for the pace, scale, and performance of your team’s delivery. Having a technical background, with experience in all aspects of software engineering processes, from inception to release, will set you up for success.

As an Engineering Manager, you will also be accountable for hiring, performance appraisal, and reward of your team, focusing on helping your people define their career path and goals for the short and long term.

Your exceptional communication skills will be key, not only to lead your team through a challenging, continuously changing environment but also to your constant interactions with a diverse group of stakeholders.

What You'll Be Doing...

Leadership & People

• Lead, inspire, motivate and line manage a multi-disciplinary software development team;
• Coach, hold 1 to 1s, set and review objectives, appraise performance, and assist with career development, ensuring effective performance management;
• Lead a ‘delivery with a high-quality culture’ that is results-oriented and takes accountability;
• Responsible for achieving and sustaining people's engagement;
• Meet ambitious timelines while balancing business risks and trade-offs;
• Drive the team to continuously improve processes in an always changing environment;
• Maximize employee retention through motivation and strong management.

Software Delivery

• Actively work with peer Engineering Managers to align delivery initiatives, clarify dependencies, and optimize progress towards a common goal;
• Identify risks early on and provide mitigations to ensure effective delivery;
• Understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver value to end users and the business;
• Apply knowledge of Agile/Lean within the team, namely Scrum, to continuously improve the team pace, efficiency, and quality;
• Serve as liaison between the delivery team and key stakeholder(s);
• Execute, plan and manage changes as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements;
• Manage the review of product requirements within the team and provide feedback to product stakeholders;
• Provide technical direction for design, development, testing, and deployment from definition phase through planning, implementation, and maintenance;
• Understand and balance commercial needs against technical requirements and capabilities;
• Easily recognize system deficiencies and lead to effective solutions;
• Continuous improvement of processes through automation of common procedures, and implementation of standards, processes, and checklists;
• Prioritize tasks throughout all phases of the project lifecycle;
• Actively measure and review the velocity, quality and duration of delivery, taking prompt corrective action where necessary.

Ownership:

• Own products and/or components in terms of being fully accountable for efficient, effective, high-quality implementation of the roadmap;
• Work closely with the key customers, stakeholders and external partners across Group Technology;
• Organization to implement, evolve, support, and own the software and system components to appropriate quality standards;
• Clearly communicate and promote strategies, roadmaps, dependencies, and plans for products and/or components;
• Manage all technical resources and capacity plans within budget and project schedule.

Expertise we hope you have

• Proven track record of leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams on complex software projects;
• Experience using agile methods for software delivery;
• Experience working with distributed, redundant, and transactional systems and the quality assurance of these;
• Experience managing the development of a team by ensuring that project tasks are in line with each team member's defined career path, as much as possible; Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, particularly regarding technical risks, issues, and constraints;
• Proven track of project management;

Expertise we´d love to see

• Release management experience;
• Background in working in a Continuous Integration (or Delivery) environment;
• Background in working with a DevOps culture;
• Experience working with Cloud Infrastructures.
• Proven track record of Incident Management;

Benefits:

• Uncapped Holiday Allowance (you read that right!)
• Enhanced Pension Scheme (please ask for your location and we will share)
• Bonus Scheme
• Life Assurance, Income protection, Private healthcare (with option to add dependent)
• £/₤1,000 annual self-development learning fund & Access to thousands of Udemy courses
• Invest via the Company Share save Scheme, Discount vouchers, Volunteering days.
• ‘Take 20’ work from another location for up to 20 days
• Enhanced Parental Leave Policy and paid time off for appointments.
• Reward portal eg. electric car scheme, gym membership discounts etc.
• On-site Gym, Canteen and Gaming area plus many more!

At Flutter we’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hardworking, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us one of the Top Workplaces in the area.