Job Description

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Overview
Location: UK Leicester (hybrid)
Are you ready for what's next, now?
We're looking for a Technical Manager to join our team in a full-time, hybrid role. You'll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking environment where your expertise will make a real impact. This is an exciting opportunity to grow, contribute to innovative projects, and support our expanding customer base.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Manager to lead our development and infrastructure teams. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing software delivery, managing a team of engineers, and ensuring our technology stack is scalable, secure, and future-proof. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends technical expertise with strong people management and strategic planning.
About you

• Lead, mentor, and manage development teams working on Angular front-end, C# services, and associated infrastructure.
• Oversee system architecture, design reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Manage and maintain scalable infrastructure leveraging Service Fabric.
• Ensure best practices in database design and performance optimization across SQL and non-SQL data stores.
• Drive engineering excellence through continuous integration, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
• Collaborate with product owners, stakeholders, and other departments to align technology initiatives with business goals.
• Monitor and manage budgets, timelines, and resources for technology projects.
• Implement and maintain security, compliance, and data governance standards.

To be ahead of the pack, you might have:

• Proven experience leading software development teams.
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, particularly Angular.
• Proficiency in backend development using C# and familiarity with microservices architecture.
• Experience with Azure Service Fabric or similar container orchestration platforms.
• Strong knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and cloud infrastructure.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and people management skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in software engineering and 2+ years in a managerial/leadership role.

What's in it for you?
Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to
grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding
opportunity for career development and growth.
About Aptean
At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled,
purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care.
Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions.
Aptean' s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the
unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other
focused organizations. Aptean' s compliance solutions are built for companies serving
specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000
highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on
Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.
"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through
embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual
power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." -
TVN Reddy
Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are
central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers,
build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can
succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity,
religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs
allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing
innovative solutions to our customer base.

Skills Required