The Senior Manager – Engineering is a senior delivery and people leadership role responsible for multiple engineering squads and first-line people managers. This role translates engineering strategy into predictable execution while maintaining strong technical standards on a Microsoft enterprise stack.
Delivery & Execution Ownership
- Own end-to-end delivery across applications and platforms serving US and UK stakeholders
- Plan and execute sprints, releases, enhancements, and BAU work using Agile practices
- Manage dependency resolution, risks, and delivery communication
People Leadership
- Lead and coach engineering managers, tech leads, and senior engineers
- Drive performance, engagement, onboarding, and capability development
- Fosters creative problem solving and innovation
- Support succession planning and leadership readiness
Technical Oversight (Microsoft Stack)
- Provide hands-on guidance across Visual Studio, .NET (Framework/Core), C#, SQL Server, WCF, SSRS, SSIS, APIs
- Enforce engineering standards, code quality, documentation, and secure SDLC practices
- Guide modernization strategy including API evolution, Microservices architecture, cloud readiness, and technical debt reduction
- Support modernization, automation, and DevOps improvements (Azure DevOps, CI/CD)
Compliance & Operational Excellence
- Ensure adherence to HIPAA, SOC 2, and enterprise governance processes
- Partner with QA, Security, and Operations to sustain audit readiness
- Use delivery metrics to drive continuous improvement
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product, Architecture, and global business stakeholders
- Provide transparent reporting on status, risks, and outcomes
- Align with business partners regarding priority, cost-benefit, timing
Required Qualifications
- Extensive hands-on engineering experience, followed by 10+ years specifically in engineering leadership roles, including 6–8 years in engineering management positions leading other leaders and managers.
- Strong hands-on background in Microsoft enterprise technologies.
- Experience delivering in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
Success Measures
- Delivery predictability and quality.
- Team health, engagement, and retention
- Reduction of defects and operational incidents
- Stakeholder satisfaction
We are a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses.
We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.
Our global team of more than 8,000 professionals operate across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.
