Associate Practice Manager – Technology Consulting Hybrid Working | Approx. 2 days per week in the office About us TEKsystems Integral Services (TGS) partners with organisations to deliver business transformation through technology. Our teams bring together expertise across Cloud, Data & AI, Software Engineering, Product, Quality Engineering, DevOps and Digital Transformation. As our technology consulting practice in Spain continues to grow, we are looking for an Associate Practice Manager to join our Madrid team and work closely with our existing Practice Manager to support our growing engineering population.

Why this role is interesting

This is a great opportunity for someone who has built their career in technology, engineering or technical leadership, has already started leading and developing people, and now wants to take the next step into broader people and practice leadership.

We are not necessarily looking for someone who is already an experienced Practice Manager. What matters is that you understand technology, can build credibility with engineers and have genuine experience supporting and developing people.

This role gives you the opportunity to broaden your career beyond purely technical leadership without leaving technology behind. You’ll remain closely connected to engineering teams while developing broader experience across people leadership, career development, performance management, workforce planning, hiring, deployment, utilisation and practice operations.

What you’ll be doing Working closely with our Senior Practice Manager for Spain,



you’ll help support an engineering population of approximately 30-35 people across different technology disciplines.

You’ll gradually take greater ownership across:

Regular 1:1s, coaching and career-development conversations

Individual Development Plans, skills development and certifications

Employee engagement and performance-management activities

Workforce planning, utilisation and bench management

Supporting deployment and matching engineers to upcoming opportunities

Interviewing and helping select new technical talent

Working across Practice, Sales, Solutions, Recruitment and Delivery

Maintaining accurate workforce information and practice reporting

Supporting the continued growth of the Spanish technology practice

You’ll ideally bring

A genuine technology or engineering background

Previous experience as a Tech Lead, Team Lead, Technology Lead, Engineering Lead or similar

Experience leading, coaching and developing people

Confidence conducting 1:1s and career-development conversations

Enough technical credibility to communicate effectively with experienced engineers

An understanding of different technical career paths and engineering environments

Strong communication, relationship-building and organisational skills

The ability to work across multiple teams and priorities





Continued curiosity around technology, including developments such as AI and LLMs

Fluent Spanish and strong English communication skills

Your technical background could be in Cloud, Software Engineering, Data, Full-Stack, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering or another technology discipline.

Nice to have

Exposure to workforce planning, resource deployment or utilisation

Experience interviewing or hiring technical professionals

Understanding of consulting or professional-services environments

Commercial awareness around areas such as rates, margin, GP or utilisation

Experience with tools such as Excel, Power BI or ServiceNow

What will make you successful

You genuinely enjoy developing people

You can build trust and credibility with technical professionals

You want to remain connected to technology while moving further into leadership

You’re comfortable balancing people, operational and business priorities

You can work collaboratively across different teams and stakeholders

You’re curious, organised and comfortable taking greater ownership as you grow into the role

What you’ll gain You’ll work closely with an established Practice Manager, gaining broader experience across people leadership, performance management, workforce planning, recruitment, deployment, utilisation, commercial awareness and practice operations while remaining connected to technology. Most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to grow into broader practice leadership within an international technology organisation.

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📌 Associate Practice Manager (Madrid)
🏢 TEKsystems
📍 Madrid