Engineering Manager - Delivery & Team Leadership
About the job
- Have a strong software engineering background and sufficient experience working closely with engineers to establish credibility.
- Have sustained people-leadership experience, such as leading a team of developers or engineers rather than only coordinating tasks.
- Have experience coaching, developing, and growing team members, including providing feedback and supporting performance.
- Understand architecture and technical trade-offs well enough to guide decisions, challenge weak solutions, and keep approaches pragmatic.
- Be able to constructively challenge unrealistic business expectations and over-engineered technical approaches.
- Have experience working across engineering, business, and stakeholder groups and communicate clearly with them.
- Be comfortable taking responsibility for delivery, team performance, and engineering quality in a complex environment.
- Be able to balance technical, people, operational, and financial priorities.
- Successfully complete the required leadership assessment to proceed in the hiring process.
- Lead and develop engineering teams by coaching people, supporting growth, and building a strong team environment.
- Shape technical direction by guiding engineering decisions, strengthening standards, and overseeing complex solutions.
- Drive delivery by improving predictability, removing obstacles, and helping teams balance speed, quality, technical debt, and long-term scalability.
- Strengthen quality and reliability by improving engineering practices and creating the conditions for stable, secure, and sustainable delivery.
- Work across teams and stakeholders to align priorities, turn business needs into sound solutions, and support execution across the area.
- Take leadership responsibility for teams and the area in line with applicable legislation and the Slovak Labor Code.
- Own team performance and growth across the area.
- Own delivery quality and predictability.
- Own engineering improvement priorities together with Technical Leads and Architects.
About the company
Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia designs and operates information and communication technology services for international companies and the Deutsche Telekom group. Its work spans business applications, SAP systems, cloud infrastructure, communications networks, and shared IT services. Teams support customers through technical design, development, implementation, and the ongoing administration of systems used in business operations. The company also supplies security services, including protection for networks, applications, and business data. Founded in 2006 as T-Systems Slovakia, the operation adopted its current shared brand in 2020 and lists its headquarters in Košice-Juh, Slovakia.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Košice-Juh, Slovakia
Founded
2006
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What believers are saying
- Confidential support: employees and family members receive free work-life coaching, including an around-the-clock crisis hotline.
- Internal teaching: the trainer program rewards local and global knowledge sharing with a bonus.
- Cloud exposure: the customer-success architect role combines platform design responsibilities with direct ownership of customer service outcomes.
What critics are saying
- Country limit: the remote security-engineering role restricts remote work to Slovakia.
- Eligibility filter: the security-engineering posting requires EU nationality for its sovereign-customer environments.
- Language and travel: the cloud architect requires German and English at C1 level plus national and international travel.
What makes Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia unique
- Shared structure: the brand represents separate Slovak systems-solutions and IT-and-telecommunications legal entities.
- Layered protection: security operations cover firewalls, proxies, intrusion detection, email filtering, antivirus, and data-leakage prevention.
- Two-city presence: the Slovak operation maintains premises in Bratislava as well as its Košice base.
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