Development Manager | Engineering Leadership | Multi-Team Delivery | C# / .NET

Development Manager | Engineering Leadership | Multi-Team Delivery | UK Residents OnlySalary: Up to £90,000

Contract: Permanent

Start: ASAP - 4 weeks maximum notice

Working Model: Fully Remote (UK only)

Eligibility: No sponsorship - UK residents with existing right to work only

Required: Multi-team delivery leadership, Tech Lead line management, release ownership, programme-level accountability, C# .NET background (All Non-Negotiable)

🚨 Non-Negotiables - Please only apply if you have ALL of the following 🚨

Leadership:

• Prior experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead with full delivery accountability
• Experience line-managing Tech Leads or senior engineers with leadership responsibility
• Demonstrable ownership of sprint commitments, production releases, and team health
• Ability to coach leaders toward autonomy - not micromanage their teams

Delivery:

• Multi-team delivery ownership - you've held outcomes across more than one team simultaneously
• Experience shepherding software releases to production across teams or workstreams
• Proven cross-team dependency management - tracking, owning, and resolving interfaces between teams
• Strong programme-level communication with product and senior leadership

Environment:

• Product engineering background - SaaS or embedded product context, shipping on a sustained cadence
• Strong engineering credibility - you were a senior engineer or Tech Lead before moving into leadership
• Comfortable operating in a structured, compliance-aware environment

Role Overview

This is a rare opportunity to step into a pivotal engineering leadership role at a well-established, profitable B2B tech business trusted by enterprise customers across a highly regulated, high-transaction industry.

The engineering function is in a deliberate phase of evolution - consolidating teams around product areas, introducing embedded QA, and maturing SDLC practice. You'll be one of two Development Managers brought in to provide dedicated delivery leadership across multi-team clusters as that programme takes shape.

This is not a Scrum Master role. It's not an architecture role. It's not a team lead with a bigger title. This is genuine multi-team ownership - line-managing Tech Leads, driving committed work from planning through to production, and being the single point of accountability for your cluster's delivery health.

What You'll Own

• Line management and development of 2-3 Tech Leads - coaching them toward greater autonomy and holding them accountable for their teams
• End-to-end delivery outcomes across your cluster - what commits, what ships, when it ships, and the quality bar on the way out
• Release shepherding - coordinating multi-team releases to production including sequencing, release readiness, cut-over, and post-release verification
• Cross-team dependency management - named owners, tracked, resolved within your cluster
• Programme-level status reporting to product and the Head of Engineering - specific, accurate, never sanitised
• Capacity and commitment management across teams - explicit trade-offs when priorities compete
• Guild standards adoption - ensuring architecture, quality, observability, and SDLC standards are applied consistently across your teams
• Incident discipline and operational health across all teams in your scope

Nice to Have

• Experience in regulated environments - financial services, payments, or healthcare etc
• Familiarity with C# / .NET at enterprise scale
• Azure DevOps experience across backlog management, release pipelines, and deployment coordination
• Exposure to organisational transformation - team consolidation, operating model change, embedded QA transition
• Matrix organisation experience - delivering through teams while horizontal guilds set cross-cutting standards

What We're Not Looking For

• Someone who owns process but not outcomes
• A leader who needs to be the technical hero on every problem
• A Scrum Master looking for a ceremony facilitation role
• Someone who has only ever managed individual contributors

If you're an engineering leader who owns delivery - really owns it - and you can start within 4 weeks, get in touch now. This one will move fast.