• Build strong teams founded on trust and empowerment
• Celebrate failure and share learnings widely
• Care deeply about your team members' growth and find reward in their development
• Have strong opinions about engineering management best practices, and relish the debate about what works in given situations
• Build lasting personal relationships based on trust, vulnerability, and openness
• Use data to make decisions and understand what is slowing your teams down and what they need to succeed
• Are not afraid to fail, experiment often and learn quickly
• Are keen to learn new technologies and challenge existing tools, methodologies, processes
• Has some experience as a line manager and is passionate about mentoring and helping team members grow and succeed
• Is a data engineer at heart who is eager to split their time equally between hands-on technical work and team management
• Has experience in system architecture and design, particularly in distributed systems
• Is interested in solving problems with functional programming. A background in Scala or similar languages with a desire to learn Scala if not already experienced
• Has experience with Amazon services such as IAM, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and Lambda (or equivalent Google Cloud/Azure services)
• Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Is comfortable collaborating with senior stakeholders from across the business
• Knows how to attract top engineering talent and build efficient, objective hiring pipelines

Desirable

• Our engineering platform sits at the heart of the business and forms the backbone of every product our customers rely on
• You will join our team of experienced and passionate engineers who are not afraid to fail and enjoy tackling difficult problems head-on
• Openness is one of our core values at Elliptic, especially in our engineering teams, where we strongly encourage engineers to challenge convention and find unique and innovative solutions to our customer's problems
• You will quickly see your impact on the wider business as we value lean thinking and launch our ideas early and often
• You will manage engineers across several cross-functional teams, providing them with the support and guidance they need to grow while giving them the space to make decisions and own their functional areas
• Strategise on the future of engineering at Elliptic with your peers across the organisation
• Provide support to your engineers, sharing your experiences and current best practices
• Stay across all aspects of your teams, fostering a healthy culture to ensure that expectations are set and work is delivered
• Lead system design and architecture development, steering system implementation and ensuring its alignment with our architectural vision
• Think about how to solve hard problems and weigh up the pros and cons of different approaches against a variety of non-functional requirements, including data quality and costs
• Promote knowledge-sharing forums across engineering to ensure best practices
• Understand each team member's goals and help them establish and follow career development plans
• Stay up to date and maintain a good understanding of each team's work so that you can effectively support and represent them throughout the business
• Reporting To: Tara Hofton