Software Engineer Manager II

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. **Role description:** The Software Engineer Manager II will lead multiple teams or a complex engineering domain delivering enabling-function solutions. Drive consistent, scalable engineering outcomes aligned to enterprise strategy. Act as a senior people leader and technical delivery authority. **Role accountabilities:** - Lead and develop software engineers across teams. - Set clear direction, priorities, and delivery expectations at domain level. - Role-model strong leadership, accountability, and engineering excellence. - Ensure solutions follow agreed software architecture, DevOps, and security patterns. - Oversee complex technical decisions, cross-team dependencies, and trade-offs. - Partner closely with Architecture, DevOps, AI, and Enablement leadership. - Accountable for delivery outcomes across multiple teams or portfolios. - Proactively manage delivery, financial, and operational risks. - Ensure consistent adoption of engineering standards and controls. - Shape the evolution of enterprise software engineering practices. - Mentor software engineers and build leadership capability. - Contribute to strategic planning and investment decisions. **Qualifications & Experience:** - Strong experience leading multi‑team engineering delivery to achieve predictable outcomes, capability uplift and stakeholder confidence. - Strong systems thinking and ability to manage complexity at scale. - Demonstrated ability ensuring delivery is consistent, efficient and aligned to organisational priorities. - Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and align business leaders, product teams, and engineering teams around shared objectives and manage trade‑offs effectively. - Leadership style that empowers Arcadians, promotes accountability and continuous improvement, and supports a healthy, inclusive and high engagement culture aligned to the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious, driving success and igniting passion. - 5+ years’ post-undergraduate experience in technology engineering leadership. With a demonstrated track record of delivering complex engineering outcomes and improving performance through governance, prioritisation and capability development. - Degree level education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related field (or equivalent experience) together with strong leadership experience in engineering management, delivery performance and technical governance across multiple teams or services. Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.