Senior Engineering Manager - Fan Duel, Hybrid
Lead Software Delivery Manager
Fan Duel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans, every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.
THE ROLE
We’re looking for passionate & experienced technologists, strong communicators, and those with a commitment to continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others. As a Senior Engineering Manager working for our Casino Engineering Operations vertical, you will work amongst multidisciplinary teams, autonomously tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products as we build out an exciting and innovative customer experience within the fast paced and growing Casino environment. You thrive on technological advancement of the team and always working towards its improvement. You will perform a vital role within Casino and so you will need to be a driven, self motivated, strategic thinker to ensure the goals of the team are being met, and if not, how to make the necessary changes to get there.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
We’re looking for passionate technologists, strong communicators and those with a commitment to continuous improvement to coach and develop a group of SRE and Dev Ops engineers. You are able to represent your teams autonomously, require minimal guidance and are accountable for the team's structure, software, and technical deliverables. You partner with your engineers and leadership to define a vision and tenets that communicate how your team makes decisions. You provide the larger picture, the long-term perspective, and the context (past, current, future) behind business and technology choices. Your roadmap influences organisational goals. You effectively participate in Fan Duel's planning process. You evangelize our company values.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Experience of managing team functions and objectives, developing deliverables and capacity planning.
- Manage a teams of engineers working to deliver impactful technology solutions to a wide variety of stakeholders whilst protecting the team from burnout.
- Preemptively identify technical risks and provide mitigation plans before delivery goals are jeopardized.
- Own your infrastructure systems by helping to guide your teams to deliver and support them while providing appropriate support for end users, both internal and customer-facing.
- Work with engineering leadership to deliver a technical vision with an eye for customer satisfaction and security.
- Lead the team to align with and contribute to the growth of the organization.
- Leverage existing Fan Duel solutions where appropriate.
- Provide technical guidance on code and architecture.
- Take the long-term growth for the teams and the wider organization into account when making architectural decisions.
- Work with senior stakeholders to scope and define new solutions to problems while influencing the roadmap and ensuring we delivery truly viable features and products.
- Seek diverse perspectives and making trade-off decisions that balances the value for customers with other business goals.
- Contribute to the recruitment process by identifying the best candidates and providing a great candidate experience.
- Build a diverse and talented team.
- Define Ways of Working and regularly seek feedback from the teams to continuously improve the process as we grow.
- Influence team culture and lead the team to positive outcomes even during difficult situations.
- Create an environment where we learn from our mistakes and share our learnings with each other.
- Act as representative of the teams when needed to provide succinct and tailored communications in an empathetic and respectful manner.
- Coordinate quick and sensible remediation for production incidents and provide relevant stakeholders with concise and timely updates.
QUALIFICATIONS AND ABILITIES
- Ability to manage performance, team coaching and promotion of personal development.
- Technical experience in managing a highly available and highly scalable cloud environment, preferably AWS.
- Ability to read code and evangelize best practices.
- Ability to build cross-team working relationship, and liaison with partner teams to achieve business goals.
- Experience in coaching engineers to improve code and platform quality.
- People management, communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
- Ensure technology solutions are testable, monitored, and maintainable.
- Remain calm under pressure while effectively boosting team morale.
- Knowledge of Dev Ops, Incident Management and SRE are preferred.
Fan Duel Group is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in Fan Duel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential. The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you!