We are looking for a Senior Operations Manager to work closely with our team of 100+ talented software engineers who develop world-leading software to protect people and organizations from the rising threats of fraud and financial crime.
This is a key role in ensuring the effective functioning of the Engineering group and its integration into the wider business. The role mixes managing relationships to stay on top of how we work today, and metrics and continuous improvement to help understand how we can be better tomorrow.
The role provides an excellent opportunity for career development and the chance to play a key role in a successful and growing software business. Not only will you be working within a great agile team environment, but you’ll also be helping to create software that protects others.
This role will be based from our Cambridge office, this is a hybrid role so you will ideally be comfortable coming into the office twice a week. If you’re interested in the role but require more flexibility, please speak to us! The team are open to considering candidates who are looking for part-time work for this role – please let us know in your application if this is something you’re looking for.
The Senior Operations Manager is a key role in ensuring that our Engineering teams create high quality products aligned to the needs of the business. The role works closely with individuals across our teams to cover three main areas:
Planning, monitoring, and control – Working with product and engineering teams to ensure high quality plans, tracking progress of work, managing commitments and ensuring visibility of risk.
Processes, measures, and metrics – Assessing and reviewing key processes including developing reports and data to understand status, managing change, monitoring and capturing key metrics, ensuring compliance to targets and communicating status and concerns.
Work management – Interfacing with stakeholders across the organisation regarding requests for engineering work. Acting as a cross-group contact and ensuring requests are prioritised and managed effectively. Thinking “outside the box” to help resolve day-to-day challenges.
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From suspicious SMS messages to malware that looks nearly as good as the real thing: banking scammers will do anything to get your details. While it’s important to stop customers from giving up their personal information in the first place, the real fight against scams lies in what comes next.
Find out moreAs a Senior Operations Manager you are comfortable working with technical experts and have the skills and experience to balance options and achieve the best outcome for the business. You will need to be an effective communicator who enjoys building and maintaining strong relationships across developers and key stakeholders.
This is a flexible and proactive role and you should be comfortable moving between focus areas. Being effective in this role requires mixing planning and tracking work, managing change , balancing and tracking competing work requests.
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Here at Featurespace we are committed to being a place of equality, inclusion and respect to provide a safe environment for you to bring your authentic self to work. We know that we gain as much strength from our differences as we do our similarities. We value diversity and are dedicated to listening and learning from each other to build and maintain a positive and productive culture. We appreciate this will be an ever-evolving focus for the business to ensure everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging.
If you think you’re a good fit for the role above, we would love to hear from you.
Fill out the short application form, upload your CV and one of the team will get back to you.
If you have any questions or queries regarding this role, or life at Featurespace, please contact [email protected]
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