Senior CRM Engineering Manager

Expert technical leadership. Modern Tech-Stack. Being Agile.

Senior CRM Engineering Manager

£79,000 - £84,000 (+ Benefits)

Grade: M2MP

Reports to: Head of Engineering

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 22 June :55

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact as soon as possible.

Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews (potentially with a telephone interview)

How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

Cancer Research UK has an ambitious Engineering Strategy supported by a modern Tech Stack and a complex hybrid infrastructure spanning on premise and multi cloud environments. Our CRM and Marketing platforms sit at the heart of our Engage Strategy and are undergoing major transformation to migrate from Siebel to Salesforce (going live in May) and to modernise our marketing technologies as part of the largest change programme in the UK charity sector's history.

As Senior CRM Engineering Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in leading our CRM and Marketing Engineering team and guiding the organisation through this transition. You'll oversee development and support environments, ensuring our platforms remain stable, efficient, and continuously improve. You'll collaborate closely with implementation partners and stakeholders while building a sustainable in-house capability. This will involve developing a talented engineering team through significant technical and cultural change and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture that supports innovation.

You'll also shape and deliver our CRM and Marketing Engineering Strategy, embedding DevOps and Agile practices, strengthening platform resilience, and ensuring the customer voice drives what we build.

If you're an engineering leader with CRM transformation experience in hybrid and cloud environments, and you've led and motivated teams through change, we would love for you to join our mission.

What will I be doing?

• Leading the CRM and Marketing Engineering function to deliver reliable, efficient and high-quality CRM and marketing platforms.
• Leading the CRM Engineering team to deliver the priorities defined by the Head of Product Portfolio and the CRM Product Manager.
• Ensuring the team meets organisational needs by driving fast, high quality development, maintaining reliable environments, and supporting DevOps practices.
• Ensuring CRM and Marketing platforms deliver an excellent user experience while maintaining data integrity. These platforms include:
  • Migrating from Siebel to Salesforce (go-live May 2026).
  • Marketing platforms currently include, but are not limited to: Adobe Campaign and Taxi for Email).
• Collaborating with the Head of Product Portfolio and the CRM and Marketing teams to deliver their priorities while ensuring strong governance, platform reliability, efficient delivery, and alignment with Engineering and Data strategies.
• Leading the team in transitioning from the legacy Siebel monolith to Salesforce and the future marketing platform, coaching them, maintaining morale, and developing the skills needed to ensure effective adoption of the new platforms.
• Collaborating with implementation partners to ensure the new platforms meet Cancer Research UK's needs, involve the team throughout delivery, and ensure effective knowledge transfer to avoid long term dependency.
• Defining and delivering CRM and Marketing aspects of the Engineering Strategy. This will involve:
  • Optimising delivery by improving throughput and quality, embedding DevOps tools and practices, and applying Agile methods.
• Continuously improving CRM and Marketing platform availability, stability, and resilience by reducing technical debt, strengthening support processes, addressing recurring pain points, and ensuring the customer voice informs team priorities.

Line Management:

• Line-managing and leading the CRM Engineering team (c.5 direct and c.3 indirect reports across Development, Environments and Support).
• Coaching the team to build the skills and capabilities needed for their career growth and transition from Siebel to Salesforce.
• Creating an inclusive and high-performing team culture that recognises success and retains talent within the team and wider function.
• Setting clear objectives and KPIs for the team, ensuring to recognise success and address under-performance.

What skills will I need?

• Experienced engineering leader who has developed, managed, and motivated technical development and support teams in large, complex organisations.
• Significant experience transforming, modernising, and integrating CRM platforms in hybrid on premise and cloud/SaaS environments (ideally Siebel to Salesforce).
• Has a successful track record of managing and transforming the development and operation of enterprise-grade platforms.
• Knowledge of engineering best practices, architecture, and DevOps culture, tools and processes, and their application to CRM platform engineering.
• Expert knowledge of engineering best practices with experience applying different development methodologies (such as Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban, etc.).
• Proven experience delivering robust incident management, disaster recovery, and high availability platforms.
• Strong people management and coaching skills with experience driving change and leading and motivating teams in navigating ambiguity and responding to evolving business needs.
• Has successfully built credible and collaborative technical and non-technical stakeholder relationships with the ability to explain complex technical issues, balance competing priorities, and influence technical decisions (including Marketing teams and senior leadership).
• Has some knowledge and experience of Marketing technologies and Adobe.

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination

Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism

Human: Act to have a positive impact on people

Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we'd still love to hear from you.

What will I gain?

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.

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