At Palladium Digital, we're obsessed with delivering real value to clients. We don't just talk a good game, we execute one too.
While working with us, we promise you an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit where we're not only using the latest technology, but we create it.
Our portfolio spans diverse sectors, from eCommerce and Retail to Financial Services and Technology, allowing you to drive meaningful projects and engage with global corporations.
Role Overview
Palladium Digital is seeking an experienced Technology Engineering Manager to lead, grow, and develop our technology engineering team. This role is pivotal in driving the delivery of high-quality digital solutions for our clients, ensuring optimal resource management, and fostering a collaborative and innovative engineering culture.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record in engineering leadership, resource management, and delivery across multiple projects and geographies.
Key Responsibilities
Team & Career Management
- Lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams (10+ people), ensuring effective career management and professional development
- Develop and implement organisational structures and competency frameworks to support team growth and capability development
- Manage leavers and joiners, ensuring smooth onboarding and offboarding processes
- Facilitate resource development and growth, supporting engineers in their career progression
Engineering Operations & Governance
- Oversee the distribution of work, capacity management, and governance across multiple concurrent projects
- Implement and refine ways of working to drive efficiency, quality, and collaboration
- Manage engineering resources, including offshore and outsourced teams, ensuring alignment with project and business objectives
- Oversee partner engineer management and vendor management, including contract and partner invoicing
- Delivery & solution design
- Drive the successful delivery of technology projects, ensuring adherence to SDLC best practices and quality standards
- Collaborate with product teams to design and deliver robust, scalable solutions
- Ensure effective interaction between engineering and product functions to align technical delivery with business goals
Tools & Finance Management
- Oversee the selection, implementation, and management of engineering tools and platforms
- Manage engineering budgets, partner invoicing, and financial tracking for engineering activities
- Ensure effective contract management with vendors and partners
Requirements
- Minimum 15 years of experience in technology engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership or management role
- Strong engineering background with hands-on experience across the SDLC lifecycle
- Proven experience managing larger engineering teams (10-15+ people) across multiple locations, including offshore and outsourced resources
- Demonstrated ability to grow and develop engineering teams, including resource development and competency management
- Experience in capacity planning, resource allocation, and delivery management across multiple projects
- Strong background in contract, vendor, and partner management, including financial oversight and invoicing
- Experience creating and implementing organisational structures and frameworks for engineering teams
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Proven track record of delivery in a collaborative, fast-paced digital consultancy or technology environment
- Experience managing diverse roles and skill sets within engineering teams
- Deep understanding of solution design, implementation, and best practices in software engineering
Benefits
- Hybrid work solution without mandated days in the office - you choose when and how many
- Flat org structure and skills/capabilities-based project resourcing
- Mentoring scheme to support your career
- Private Health Insurance - annual premium paid by Palladium, single cover policy
- Performance Bonus - annual discretionary performance-based bonus
- Pension - Palladium will contribute 3% to your 5% employee contribution
- Training - £1500 personal development and training allowance
- Leave - 23 days annual leave + Christmas office closures
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discounts and Perks
- Opt-in private Dental Insurance
Equal Opportunities
Palladium is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. The success of Palladium depends upon our ability to recognise and leverage the capabilities of each of our employees.
With this in mind, Palladium is committed to providing equality and fairness for all recruitment applicants and employees and not discriminating against anyone because of their gender (including sex, marital status and gender reassignment), race (including ethnic origin, colour, nationality and national origin), disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief or age. In addition, Palladium will not discriminate against anyone who is associated with another individual who is protected under equality legislation. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination
All employees are treated fairly and with respect. Selection for employment, promotion, training or any other benefits is done on the basis of aptitude and ability. Palladium is also committed to preventing discrimination of any type against its employees by third parties such as suppliers, clients and the general public. The responsibility for upholding this commitment is shared by, and is intended to benefit, every employee.