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We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.\nDepartment Overview\nGuardian is a call taking & dispatching platform used by emergency service operators across the UK & Europe. We help 999 or 112 operators answer calls from the public and dispatch out nearby responders, enabling the right response when every second counts, and ultimately helping our customers save lives.As our solution has grown from a small startup to one of the leading offerings for Fire & Police agencies, our customers now trust us to solve more of their problems. The Guardian team is distributed across the UK, with hubs in Glasgow, Rugby and Hemel. We currently have around 150 employees. We have a relaxed but hard working environment where jeans and t-shirts are the norm and good ideas and debate are encouraged. Our daily work is remote and often asynchronous, with workflows managed via Google Chat & collaborative documents in G-Suite. However, you’ll also have the opportunity to join us for frequent in person work & social events like post-work pints, Flight Club darts, or our annual all-hands in top European cities like Prague, Barcelona, and Krakow.\nJob Description\nThis role is primarily remote with occasional travel to our UK & Poland office sites.\nAs the Engineering Manager, you will lead engineering teams and manage technical projects for the Guardian CAD platform using Scrum and Agile methodologies. You are a key driver of technical excellence and innovation, adopting a \"hands-on\" leadership approach to ensure product reliability, security, and high availability in mission-critical environments.\nOperating with a high degree of autonomy, you will combine strong technical leadership, architectural expertise, and active involvement in engineering tasks with people management. You will be instrumental in shaping our team culture, fostering an environment of collaboration and continuous learning. By leading by example, you will champion the use of modern AI tools daily, guiding your team in their adoption to solve complex technical problems and drive operational efficiency. Beyond line management, you will review code, understand detailed technical workflows, and guide the team in shaping scalable software architectures.\nYour responsibilities encompass a wide range of duties, including:\nTechnical Leadership & Architecture: Provide strong software architecture direction, guide system design decisions, perform code reviews, and stay deeply engaged with the technical execution of C# backend, database, and web application components.\n\nAI Leadership & Culture: Lead by example in the integration of AI tools, mentoring your team on their usage to solve complex engineering challenges and driving a culture of innovation and efficiency.\n\nAgile & Project Delivery: Manage software engineering teams and projects for Guardian CAD utilizing Scrum and Agile frameworks, facilitating effective iteration, planning, and delivery.\n\nStakeholder Collaboration & Networking: Utilize excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners, senior leadership, and external stakeholders, building strong internal and external networks.\n\nOverseeing Development and Testing: Work directly with a team of engineers to plan, refine, and develop both conceptual prototypes and production-level functionality. You will oversee the testing process, in collaboration with Quality Assurance engineers and dedicated test teams, to ensure the final solution is free of defects in end-to-end delivery.\n\nIMPORTANT - The candidate must have been a permanent resident in the UK for at least 5 years to obtain security clearance required for this role (SC/NPPV3).\nBasic Requirements\nRequired Skills:\nProven experience managing software development teams and projects using Scrum and Agile methodologies\nExperience managing the delivery of software solutions to large enterprise and high security government clients\nHigh level technical skills in modern C# and/or Javascript, React.js \nSolid background in software architecture with experience conducting code reviews and understanding complex engineering tasks (Technical Lead experience highly valued)\nProven ability to motivate and lead cross-functional, diverse teams using remote tools utilizing OKR methodology\nConfident in communicating complex technical matters in simple terms to senior management, customers and other stakeholders in written and presentation/demonstration formats.\nProficiency with AI development tools (e.g., Gemini, CoPilot, Devin) to assist in solving complex engineering challenges daily\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and establish efficient working networks\nWould be a plus:\nExperience with UK bluelight (police and fire) Control Room operations \nDegree in Project Management, Software Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience\nPrevious technical or architecture leading experience\nUK security clearance - The candidate must have been a permanent resident in the UK for at least 3 years\nExperience working with UI/UX teams to define personas, userflows and story maps.\nKnowledge of Angular, .NET framework, Software Engineering Agile practices, DevOps methodologies, Windows and Linux operating systems, \nNetworking and routing protocols like TCP/IP, OSPF, etc. knowledge about switches, firewalls, and network topologies.\nIn return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:\nCompetitive salary and bonus schemes.\nTwo weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).\n25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.\nAttractive defined contribution pension scheme.\nEmployee stock purchase plan.\nFlexible working options.\nPrivate medical care.\nLife assurance. \nEnhanced maternity and paternity pay.\nCareer development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.\nEmployee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.\nCarbon neutral initiatives/goals.\nCorporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.\nWell known companies discount scheme.\n#LI-NW1 #LI-REMOTE\nTravel Requirements\nUnder 10%Relocation Provided\nNonePosition Type\nExperiencedReferral Payment Plan\nYesCompany\nMotorola Solutions UK LimitedEEO Statement\nMotorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.\nWe are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. 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