Senior Engineering Manager

• Lead and inspire a cross-functional engineering team (c.40 people across 6 squads) to deliver high-quality digital client experiences.
• Provide structured leadership that ensures consistent delivery, productivity, engagement, and team wellbeing.
• Support the Head of Development to prepare for a next-generation replatforming of our core trading and customer systems.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent, nurturing a high-performance culture with psychological safety at its core.
• Ensure best practices in agile delivery, DevOps, secure engineering, and operational support are upheld across the teams.
• Take ownership of your team's services – ensuring they are secure, reliable, scalable, and continually improved.
• Work closely with Product Managers and stakeholders to align engineering outcomes with business and client value.
• Translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language and influence decision-making at senior levels.
• Champion continuous learning, cross-functional collaboration, and inclusive team growth.

• Significant experience in senior technology leadership roles within large-scale, regulated environments—ideally in Investment, Asset or Wealth Management.
• Track record of managing and scaling high-performing software engineering teams (40+), balancing delivery and innovation.
• Strong engineering background with the ability to communicate architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You create guardrails on scope, technical design, NFRs, and quality—then empower your team to innovate within them.
• Client- and product-focused mindset, with experience partnering closely with Product Managers and business teams.
• You embrace ambiguity, foster collaboration, and promote psychological safety to help teams navigate change.
• Hands-on knowledge of secure API design, authentication services, and mobile development (Swift/Kotlin, React Native).
• Exposure to Figma, Vercel, and modern DevOps tools and practices.
• Experience leading engineering efforts across legacy and modern technology stacks, including COBOL and Microsoft technologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams.

• React (Web and Native) / Typescript / GraphQL / RDMS and NoSQL (Oracle, PostGres, DocumentDB)
• AWS / Terraform IaC / Kubernetes
• .NET / SQL Server

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