Senior Program / Engineering Manager (#5505)

N-iX is looking for a Senior Program / Engineering Manager to join the project and own the programme end-to-end.

Our client - the world's leading corporate domain registrar - helps global enterprises manage their domain portfolios and protect their brands from online threats. The programme consolidates the group's previously separate web platforms onto a single, modernised system on AWS, delivering client migration and full feature parity against a firm timeline.

This is a senior leadership role, but a hands-on one: you will set direction and be accountable for outcomes across multiple delivery teams and workstreams, while staying involved in the day-to-day — unblocking teams, steering technical and delivery decisions, and keeping the migration and feature-parity tracks moving in lockstep. You will be the primary delivery owner facing stakeholders, translating business priorities into an executable plan and reporting reliable, defensible status against it.

Responsibilities:

• Own delivery of the full programme - client migration and feature parity projects from planning through to release, accountable for scope, timeline, quality, and predictability.
• Lead and coordinate multiple delivery teams and workstreams, ensuring dependencies, sequencing, and priorities stay aligned across the migration and parity tracks.
• Stay hands-on day-to-day: remove impediments, drive technical and delivery decisions, and keep momentum rather than managing purely from a distance.
• Own the migration plan - cutover sequencing, risk and rollback planning, and data/feature validation - so clients move onto the consolidated platform smoothly and on schedule.
• Drive feature parity: ensure legacy capabilities are fully mapped, prioritised, and delivered on the new stack with no loss of functionality clients depend on.
• Be the primary delivery interface to senior MarkMonitor stakeholders — reporting status, risks, and forecasts with transparency, and managing expectations across time zones.
• Translate business goals into a clear, executable roadmap and capacity plan, balancing delivery pace against quality and technical debt.
• Establish and track the metrics that give leadership confidence — delivery predictability, throughput, milestone burn-up, and programme-level risk.
• Line-manage and grow delivery leads, Scrum Masters, and engineers; set ways of working and raise the maturity of the teams over time.
• Partner with Product Owners and architecture to keep scope, priorities, and technical direction coherent across the programme.

Requirements:

• 7+ years in software delivery, including senior program- or engineering-management ownership of complex, multi-team programmes.
• Proven experience as a Program Manager, Engineering Manager, or Delivery Lead on complex, multi-team engagements.
• Proven track record leading platform migrations and consolidations — ideally including client cutovers and feature-parity efforts on a firm timeline.
• Genuinely hands-on leadership style: comfortable operating at both the strategic and day-to-day level, close enough to the work to make and unblock decisions.
• Strong delivery-predictability focus — able to forecast, report defensibly, and keep a programme on track in an imperfect, fast-moving environment.
• Experience owning delivery across multiple teams and workstreams with dependencies between them.
• Solid technical grounding -  enough to engage credibly on architecture, migration risk, and engineering trade-offs 
• Practical command of Agile delivery and project-management practices, and the judgement to blend them pragmatically (overseeing and guiding SMs on the project)
• Relevant certifications (PMP, PgMP, PSM/CSM) are a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management, including direct ownership of senior client relationships across time zones.
• Experience in the software development/engineering/outsourcing industry is a must.
• English: Advanced / fluent - you will work directly with US- and UK-based stakeholders.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field (Computer Science, Engineering, Business) or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with delivery and planning tooling (Jira, roadmapping/Gantt tools) is preferred.