Software Engineering Manager - Time & Scheduling

About the role

Key accountabilities

• Lead, mentor and develop high-performing engineering teams and foster collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership across HCM and Scheduling SaaS platforms, ensuring scalable, secure and maintainable solutions and integrations.
• Partner with product, architecture and engineering stakeholders to deliver business outcomes, manage dependencies and drive agile delivery.
• Own the Time & Labour technical roadmap, overseeing planning, execution and continuous enhancement of colleague-facing digital experiences.
• Drive quality, reliability and operational excellence through release management, platform lifecycle governance and a strong DevOps culture.

Skills and experience

• Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering high-quality enterprise SaaS solutions at scale.
• Hands-on experience designing, configuring and supporting HCM and Scheduling platforms, with deep expertise in Payroll, Absence, Forecasting and Scheduling.
• Ability to modernise technology landscapes, simplify complexity and reduce technical debt through end-to-end service ownership.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams while balancing product delivery, platform support and stakeholder expectations.
• Pragmatic problem-solving, sound decisions in ambiguity, and ability to turn complex payroll and workforce-management requirements into practical solutions.

Technology experience

• Forecasting and Labour SaaS platforms listed include Blue Yonder, OTL, UKG and Logile.
• Oracle HCM capabilities listed include Payroll Functional Configuration, Payroll Processing, Absence Plans and Compensation.
• Technical and integration expertise listed includes UK Legislative Payroll, HCM Data Loader, HCM Extracts, OTBI / BI Publisher and Fast Formula.

Compensation

• Salary is described as competitive, with benefits; no compensation cadence or amount is stated.

Benefits

• Benefits include a colleague discount, holiday allowance with an option to buy more, discretionary bonus schemes, pension and life assurance.
• The posting also mentions induction and training, M&S Choices savings, family policies, wellbeing support including virtual GP access, and a paid volunteer day.