Technical Engineering Manager
As a Technical Engineering Manager in the Player Account Management department, the role involves leading a cross-functional team of software engineers. The manager is accountable for the team’s deliverables, ensuring solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
The role requires creating a culture of accountability where each team member understands their impact and takes ownership for their products. Working closely with the Product Owner, the manager ensures effective ways of working that enable the team to produce high-quality solutions. Additionally, the manager owns the team's technical roadmap, ensuring quality is not compromised.
The ideal candidate is a passionate leader committed to inspiring and empowering their team. This includes mentoring engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and collaboration, and supporting career growth. Collaboration with stakeholders across the organisation is essential for alignment and clear communication on priorities, risks, and outcomes.
- Own and drive the team’s technical roadmap in alignment with organisational objectives, ensuring a strong collaboration with the Product Owner.
- Take responsibility for production stability and quality, addressing any issues or incidents head-on.
- Ensure technical debt is identified, prioritised, and systematically addressed.
- Collaborate with Architects, UX Designers, and Principal Engineers to deliver scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, security, testing, and documentation.
- Lead, and continuously improve, the teams agile processes ensuring effective planning and execution.
- Ensure the team delivers predictable, high-quality and compliant outcomes.
- Honor team commitments made to timelines for strategic initiatives.
- Promote fast delivery of value through experimentations and iterations.
- Oversee the team's capacity planning and resource allocation.
- Embrace new productivity, AI and automation tools, always striving to make the team more efficient.
- Take full accountability for the team’s deliverables, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Secure end-to-end deliveries by establishing collaboration and clear agreements with any other teams involved.
- Act as a single point of ownership for ensuring solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Actively participate in product discussions to ensure technical feasibility and alignment.
- Act as the primary driver for balancing product delivery with technical excellence together with the PO.
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering career growth and technical expertise.
- Build and nurture a culture of ownership, accountability and collaboration within and outside of the team.
- Continuously evaluate performance and provide actionable feedback to your team members, setting compensation accordingly.
- Promote team wellness and engagement, driving a positive and inclusive team environment.
- Recruit top talent, considering best fit, skills and dynamics for the team needs.
- Serve as the key liaison between PAM, other Tech departments, product management and other stakeholders.
- Clearly communicate technical challenges, risks, and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or a similar role (required).
- Strong technical background in software development, with hands-on experience in system design, architecture and managing technical debt (required).
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and improving team processes (required).
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership and accountability for technical and business outcomes (required).
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with a track record of building high-performing teams (required).
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to balance strategic and tactical priorities (required).
- Experience working in cross-functional environments with architecture, UX, and product teams (preferred).
- Familiarity with modern software development practices and tools (preferred).
- Ability to balance technical leadership with people management responsibilities effectively (preferred).
FDJ United is one of Europe's largest gaming and betting groups, formed after French lottery operator La Française des Jeux (FDJ) acquired Kindred Group - the company behind Unibet - in 2024 and rebranded the enlarged group in 2025. Headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, it operates lottery, online sports betting, casino and poker across multiple European markets and Australia. Its portfolio includes well-known online brands such as Unibet, 32Red and Maria Casino, alongside FDJ's French lottery and retail network. The group is listed on the Euronext Paris exchange.