Engineering Delivery & Operations Manager

Job description

Joining Weezevent means working on tangible solutions used at international festivals (Hellfest, Boomtown, Tomorrowland, Lollapalooza, Boom), major sporting events (Formula 1, the Olympic Games, Euro fan zones), and high-volume live experiences. Weezevent builds the technology behind live events: ticketing , cashless payment , CRM , staff solutions and access control . We are about 100 people in the tech team (engineering and product organisation), part of a group that has grown both organically and through acquisitions, so our teams span several countries and cultures. We are at an inflection point. We are opening a focused 12–18 month window to invest heavily in the foundations of our main product, WeezTicket: paying down technical debt, tightening our architecture, and setting ourselves up for the next phase of growth. To run that program, we’re hiring an Engineering Delivery & Operations Manager (M/F, based in Clichy) to own its delivery. Vos missions This is a two-part role, and the first part is where you’ll spend most of your first year. Part one : deliver the program . A board of our most experienced engineers is defining the architectural direction and producing a large backlog of clean-up and improvement work. That work will be delivered by several external squads brought in for the program. You own the delivery layer between them: getting squads stood up and productive on time, tracking each one’s pace and quality, and keeping the whole program on schedule. Stand up and onboard external squads, around 20 developers across 5 to 6 squads, on time : access, environments, documentation, and a well-scoped first backlog ready before they start Track the delivery pace of each squad against its commitments, and keep a clear program-level view of what’s on track, slipping, or blocked Hold squads to the quality bar set by the architectural board : tests, reviews, and no new debt introduced while removing old debt Manage cross-squad dependencies so work lands in the right order Track program spend against budget and manage the relationships with the partners supplying the squads Report program status to the CTO and the board on a regular cadence Part two : become the operational backbone of engineering. As the program matures, you’ll take on the people-operations side of the organisation: helping our managers run great 1:1s and reviews, coordinating the per…