Engineering Manager

The Role

12 Month Fixed-Term Contract

Engineering Manager

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to join our Streaming technology team, taking a people-first approach to leading both front-end and back-end engineers responsible for building and maintaining ITVX.

This role focuses on delivering high-performing, scalable and reliable streaming services while fostering a culture of innovation, inclusion and continuous improvement across the team.

Working closely with colleagues across Streaming, this role sits within the Growth & E-commerce Engineering team, a key driver of our objective to increase Monthly Active Users..

As Engineering Manager, you will support the growth and development of engineers, shape the technical roadmap and ensure the team continues to deliver high-quality, resilient services that power ITVX.

The team

As a Media and Entertainment brand at heart, we are people-focused and place a huge emphasis on innovation. Our culture is everything to us and our product teams power the platforms for our stars on screen to shape the future.

Here at ITV, we are undergoing a major digital transformation drive, across all of our platforms and on-demand services. With the rapid shift in industry trends, from VOD streaming to programmatic AI and ever-changing consumer tastes, accelerating the demand for high-quality, high-volume content delivery at scale, we are looking to leverage our long-standing reputation as the largest commercial TV network in the UK in order to create a technology-first media platform that caters to an increasingly diverse worldwide audience.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and grow engineers, focusing on their career development, technical expertise, and individual empowerment. Champion best practices in code quality, security, and testing. Be a leader who can guide the team through business changes by setting clear expectations and helping engineers adapt to new priorities.
• Technical Excellence & Strategy: Shape the technical roadmap, driving architectural decisions to ensure scalability and performance. Encourage experimentation with new technologies and manage infrastructure to ensure stability.
• Operational Management: Work with delivery managers to ensure agile processes, oversee on-call rotations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align priorities and deliver features.
• Culture & Continuous Improvement: Promote an inclusive and diverse engineering environment, support continuous learning, and drive process optimisations while maintaining work-life balance through ITV’s Smart Working initiative.

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Senior Programmer Experience: Proven experience with expertise in front-end or back-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Scala, Java, Go, Rust, HTML, and CSS.
• Architecture & Performance: Strong understanding of system architecture, service performance, and DevOps practices.
• Diverse Culture Advocacy: A track record of fostering an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.
• Agile Experience: Demonstrable experience with agile delivery methodologies and the ability to balance speed with maintaining a high-quality codebase.
• Team Leadership: Experience in leading a team of engineers, focusing on individual growth, delivery, and engineering excellence.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders and balance competing business and technical priorities.
• Coaching & Mentorship: Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers, providing regular developmental feedback, and facilitating career growth.
• Recruitment & Team Building: Experience leading recruitment efforts and continually advocating for a diverse, inclusive team.
• Process Improvement: Ability to assess and optimise business processes, suggesting and implementing alternatives for greater efficiency.
• Presentation & Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have:

• Real-Time Analytics: Experience working with real-time analytics and monitoring systems for live streaming environments.
• Cloud Technologies: Expertise in cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with monitoring tools for performance and service reliability optimisation.
• Streaming Technologies: Knowledge of streaming technologies such as HLS, DASH, and video/audio codecs (encoding/decoding).