Senior Engineering Manager, Sky
Office located in Osterley, London
Broadband and telecommunications company
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Broadband and telecommunications company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Osterley, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect people with the very best entertainment, sports, news, arts and local, original content.
Role
Who you are
- Proven hands-on software engineering experience in a professional setting, providing a strong technical foundation
- Experience in recruiting, developing, and managing multiple teams (15+ engineers), including effective performance management
- Experience mentoring, guiding, and empowering engineers and engineering managers and supporting their career development
- Demonstrated ability to proactively drive technical direction, evaluating technology choices, and making informed architectural decisions
- A strong track record of leading high impact improvement initiatives across multiple teams in an organisation
- Dedication to staying current on best practices and evolving the team's technical processes
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager in Experience Engineering, you'll be working on improving the developer experience, delivering reliable, fast and award-winning experiences in the area of content discovery and playback on devices.
- Have a vision for multiple high performing teams. Help the teams navigate where they are against that vision, and, through a series of initiatives, continuously improve
- Hire engineers and engineering managers (and potentially other disciplines)
- Be the technical voice of your teams in wider forums, support engineers in proposing product improvements, and to actively participate in architecture discussions
- Champion Software Engineering best practices, process improvements and advocate for optimal developer experience
- Manage team metrics and encourage a culture of data driven decision making
- Serve as the technical service owner, manage change and incidents, and optimise on-call processes where necessary
- Contribute to technical planning, guide technology choices, help the teams manage technical debt, and oversee the system architecture
- Track budgets and facilitate access to engineering tools and services for a streamlined development process
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Sky formed through the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990, making it the UK's largest pay-TV company. After the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in 2014, Sky Group was formed, transforming the UK company into Europe's leading entertainment and media group.
With the recent success of their original content, Sky doubled their investment into this space by 2024 with a brand new movie and TV studio being built. This is expected to create an additional £3 billion of production investment in UK creative sector in the first five years alone.
Sky's streaming service, Now TV, was launched in 2012 to compete with the rising tide of Netflix and, more recently, with Amazon's Prime Video. With pay-TV subscriptions dropping and the video streaming industry expected to grow by a further 20% by 2027, Sky has remained competitive by offering a range of deals, partnering with Netflix, and developing its own TV - Sky Glass, as it aims to keep up with consumer trends.
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back within 2 weeks
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Forward-Looking & Restless - We believe in building a better tomorrow
- Creative & Action-Orientated - We believe in new ideas and making them happen
- Customer-Led & Simplifying - We believe in making things better and simpler for our customers
- Collaborative & Inclusive - We believe we are better when we all work together
- Fair & Responsible - We believe in doing the right thing
Company HQ
Isleworth, UK
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Leadership
Dana Strong
(CEO, not founder)Previously, President of Consumer Services at Comcast Cable and held various roles at Liberty Global. Became CEO of Sky in 2021.
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