Dev Manager, DSPM

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead, manage, and grow a team of software engineers delivering DSPM product capabilities
• ▹Own end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives: planning, execution, retrospective, continuous improvement
• ▹Partner with Product Management to translate roadmap priorities into well-defined engineering plans
• ▹Drive adoption of engineering best practices: code quality, CI/CD, automated testing, security-by-design, DORA metrics
• ▹Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations; coach and mentor direct reports
• ▹Manage headcount planning, hiring, and onboarding with HR and Talent Acquisition
• ▹Act as a point of escalation for technical and delivery issues, removing blockers
• ▹Collaborate with peer engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment and shared standards
• ▹Champion Agile delivery practices across DSPM using data such as cycle time, lead time, and deployment frequency

Requirements

• ▹Strong engineering background, able to engage credibly at a technical level with engineers and architects
• ▹Proven people management skills, growing, retaining, and inspiring engineering talent
• ▹Excellent communication skills, translating technical complexity for non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership
• ▹Strong delivery mindset, ownership, accountability, and a bias for action
• ▹Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, globally distributed engineering organisation
• ▹Analytically minded, using delivery data to drive continuous improvement
• ▹Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• ▹7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a management or technical lead capacity
• ▹Experience managing distributed or remote engineering teams across multiple time zones

Nice to have

• ▹Background in enterprise security software, SaaS, or data-first cybersecurity
• ▹Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies, CI/CD practices, and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• ▹Experience with Workday, Jira, or comparable HR and project management tooling

Soft skills

About the company

Forcepoint is a 20+ year old cybersecurity company whose cloud-native platform helps global businesses and governments adopt Zero Trust and protect sensitive data; 2,700+ employees, 150 countries, 11,000+ customers.