Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager – Human Risk

Building the next generation of Mimecast protection products

Be on the cutting edge as we build the next generation of Mimecast’s “Work Protected” product line, building on the X1 platform to deliver seamless protection across all the communication and collaboration tools used by our customers.         

Why Join Our Team?

“The Human Risk team, within the Platform group, is responsible for preventing the evolving and sophisticated threats targeting human error within organizations. Our cloud-based platform integrates with leading security technologies, providing enterprise security leaders with deep visibility into their organizational risks.  If you’re interested in solving customer challenges at immense scale, then this is the role for you!” - Hiring Manager

What You’ll Do

As an Senior Engineering Manager for the Human Risk team, you will be instrumental in forming and scaling high-performing teams, offering dedicated support for individual growth and career progression. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Architects, and Engineers, to define project milestones and deliverables.
• Engage closely with the HR and Recruitment teams to attract, onboard, and retain exceptional engineering talent.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks associated with projects, ensuring smooth and reliable operation.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture, ensuring effective communication and knowledge sharing.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging standards and best practices, to maintain high-quality software development.
• Monitor and analyze AWS usage, working with senior management and engineer teams to provide recommendations for cost savings.

What You’ll Bring:

• Strong communication skills with experience in effectively communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Successful track record of project leadership, including planning, execution, and delivery of complex projects with predictability.
• Strong technical background in software engineering, with hands-on experience in designing and developing backend services at scale within AWS.
• Experience of front-end development
• Experience in building and scaling high-performing engineering teams, including recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing talent development.
• Experience in establishing and enforcing coding standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes to maintain high-quality software development.

What We Bring

Join our Human Risk team to accelerate your career journey, working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to projects that have real customer impact. You will be immersed in a dynamic environment that recognizes and celebrates your achievements.

Mimecast offers formal and on the job learning opportunities, maintains a comprehensive benefits package that helps our employees and their family members to sustain a healthy lifestyle, and importantly - working in cross functional teams to build your knowledge!

We believe in ‘growth that’s good, we have ‘a culture that cares’ and we are on a ‘mission that matters’.

Our Hybrid Model: We provide you with the flexibility to live balanced, healthy lives through our hybrid working model that champions both collaborative teamwork and individual flexibility. Employees are expected to come to the office at least two days per week, because working together in person:

• Fosters a culture of collaboration, communication, performance and learning
• Drives innovation and creativity within and between teams
• Introduces employees to priorities outside of their immediate realm
• Ensures important interpersonal relationships and connections with one another and our community!

DEI Statement

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.