At The Stepstone Group, we help everyone get the job that best fits their life. Whether it is the next step in their career, or a job to pay the bills - we exist to match lifestyles with livelihoods.

We play our part by giving people everything they need to find the right job for them in that moment; making jobs work for more people, whatever they do, and however they choose to do it.

This role can be based in Düsseldorf or London.

We also have a hybrid approach! Work from home 2 days and 3 days at the office!

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at Totaljobs is critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent on the market. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of your background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application or interviewing, please let us know.

We are looking for a person who is as passionate about excellent engineering as they are for people. As a manager, an Associate Engineering Manager is a person that can be trusted by their team, that works with them individually and as a group to achieve their goals and commitments, and who listens, supports, mentors, coaches, and helps them grow to their full potential.

As an engineer, an Associate Engineering Manager has the ability to communicate technical concepts to a varied audience of stakeholders across the business, and together with product owners, scrum masters and business analysts is accountable for the results and delivery of the team, with a focus on innovation.

What will this role look like on a day-to-day basis?

• Line management, coaching, career progression, planning and growth, for one or two engineering teams
• Ensuring that excellent engineering and innovation are part of every delivery iteration and the team's roadmap
• Effective communication with both with the team and their stakeholders
• Accountability for the successful delivery of the team's commitments
• Ensuring that the team is staffed appropriately and protecting its health
• Developing the engineering culture of their team and domain, in the context of the organizational engineering strategy (rapid hypothesis testing, learning from failure, automation, SecDevOps culture)
• Ensuring effective technical knowledge is shared within the team and in collaboration with other teams and Associate Engineering Managers
• Awareness of barriers to innovation, and planning for their removal (through training, removal of technical debt, or other means)
• Occasionally, being able to lend hands-on support to the team

We know looking for a new job can be scary, and sometimes the list of skills you are asked for can seem exhaustive. Below are a few of the skills we look for, but please do not be put off applying if you do not have every single one of them!

Some skills you might have:

• People Leader: able to line manage others in line with the organizational policies and adaptable to each individual needs, with a focus on team growth, engagement, ownership and belonging
• Collaborator: able to lead by example in collaboration with the team, their support network, and their stakeholders
• Good Communicator: clearly connects and communicates with developers, product owners, stakeholders, and the domain's support/leadership team
• Emotional Intelligence and Inclusive Mindset: able to communicate reasoning in clear and simple terms to a diverse audience, flexibility to take different viewpoints and experiences, committed to their own personal and professional growth and that of others, behaves with dignity and respect towards everyone
• Delivery focused: focuses on the delivery of value efficiently and iteratively, and is responsible for fulfilling the team's commitments

Key Technologies:

• Data Warehousing, Data Modelling, Database Design, ETL
• AWS Redshift, SQL Server, Power BI
• Cloud/DevOps – AWS, Docker, Terraform
• Bitbucket, Bamboo, Team City, Octopus CI/CD deploy pipeline
• Agile, pair programming, code reviews
• Knowledge of one development language (Python, C#, Java), Data Lakes
• Knowledge of Crawlers, Event Sourcing and Data Mesh is a plus

Benefits and Rewards:

• Your start at StepStone: We want you to feel comfortable right from the get-go and you can begin networking immediately. That's why we always start with an onboarding event lasting several days, during which you get to know your new colleagues, our products and our culture. After that, the onboarding continues in your department - with several weeks of individual training.
• We support you: We want you to become part of the StepStone family as quickly as possible! That is why we will support you with all the formalities during the visa process.
• Your further development: We are growing - and of course we want you to grow with us. We will support you with targeted training that will help you develop both personally and professionally.
• Big player with start-up flair: Even though we've grown quite a bit, we haven't lost our laidback attitude from the early days. In concrete terms, this means that we are on a first-name basis, we have short communication channels, flat hierarchies and super helpful colleagues.
• Social Days: Talk is silver, action is golden - which is exactly why all our employees have 2 Social Days a year. These can be used flexibly for social and sustainable commitment. And the best thing about it: you don't have to take any holidays.
• Holidays: While we're on the subject of holidays ... We offer 30 days of paid leave per year plus one customary day. And we always have Christmas and New Year's Eve off.
• Our location? At the Medienhafen! For you that means we're easy to reach - whether by car, train or bike. By the way: We sponsor 50% of your parking space or job ticket.
• Job-bike: And we also have good news for all cyclists: with our Job-bike offer, we support you in getting to the office quickly and sustainably.
• Mobile Office: This is also possible with us! As a general rule, we offer two days of remote working per week. Feel free to ask directly during the interview to find out what the policy is for your role.
• Are you into fitness? Great! Whether it's in our own fitness studio, playing beach volleyball or running, you can keep fit with our wide range of sporting activities.
• Fancy a coffee? Then take a look at our in-house baristas. Whether Caramello, Cortado or Flat White lactose-free - everything is brewed fresh and free of charge. Speaking of fresh, of course, we also serve fresh fruit every day.
• Our in-house post office: Standing in line isn't your thing? Then simply have your parcels delivered to the office.
• Even more benefits: Christmas party, summer party, team events, incentive trips, subsidization on our company pension scheme and great offers at wholesale rates (e.g. for mobile phone contracts, Sixt and hotel bookings with HRS) - our list is long. There's bound to be something for you too!