Salary: HG16T £49,000 - £75,000 negotiable depending on experience
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent, 37.5 hours per week
Location: Cardiff, UK
Hybrid working: 1 day in office
About the IB
The International Baccalaureate provides world-class educational services to over 6,000 schools across 160 countries. A career with the IB is not just a job; it’s an opportunity to work with an innovative world leader in education services where we empower our employees to thrive and make a difference.
About the job
The Engineering Manager is responsible for the technical implementation, evolution, and quality of the organisation’s CMS and content-centric platforms. The role combines hands-on full-stack development with technical leadership, guiding a team of developers and ensuring robust, scalable, and sustainable CMS solutions aligned with architectural standards
Act as engineering lead for the CMS platform, providing hands-on development and technical leadership
Drive technical execution, quality, and consistency across CMS development
Design, develop, and maintain CMS backend services and user-facing applications
Define and evolve coding standards, development practices, and technical guidelines
Review code and mentor developers to support continuous skill development
Collaborate with software and solution architects to align implementation with architecture
Design content structures, schemas, and models supporting long-term reuse and evolution
Own CMS integrations, content processing pipelines, and platform stability
Identify and mitigate technical risks across the CMS platform
Contribute to roadmap planning and continuous improvement initiatives
Extensive experience with headless CMS platforms and content-centric systems
Proven full-stack development experience across backend and frontend technologies
Experience acting as a technical or engineering lead within a development team
Strong expertise in content structures, schemas, and markup-based modelling
Understanding of editorial workflows and content lifecycles
Ability to translate business requirements into end-to-end technical solutions
Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React or Angular
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Experience with AI agent development
Benefits
Flexible benefits allowance equivalent to 1.5% of Annual Salary to spend on benefits or as addition to salary
10% employer pension contribution with a 3% employee contribution
Enhanced family friendly benefits
25 days annual leave plus public holidays, with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
Life assurance 4x annual salary
Flexible working hours (core hours 10am–12pm and 2pm–3pm)
Paid volunteering leave
Excellent continuous professional development
Opportunity & Belonging
We are committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. The International Baccalaureate is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all qualified applicants. As a global employer, we adhere to all relevant employment legislation in the countries in which we operate, and we’re happy to provide any reasonable support or adjustments as needed to ensure applicants can fully participate in our recruitment process.
