Engineering Manager

Saxo Bank A/S; Gentofte Kommune; On-site; DKK 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Saxo Bank A/S is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the OpenAPI Framework team within the Platform Technology organization. You will guide a small cohort of experienced engineers, influence tech strategy, and partner with senior stakeholders to align platform evolution with Saxo's scale and business needs.

The role blends people leadership with hands-on technical credibility, enabling secure, scalable services across trading, investing, and banking products.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams in a complex environment.
• Strong people leadership and coaching skills.
• Experience with platform engineering, APIs, cloud technologies, or distributed systems.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries and building trusted partnerships with technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to translate technical strategy into clear business value.
• Passion for fostering high performing teams and empowering team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of highly skilled engineers.
• Drive recruitment, retention, and career development.
• Define and execute the technology strategy for the OpenAPI Framework domain.
• Partner with architects, principal engineers, and engineering leaders on platform evolution.
• Lead the successful execution of OpenAPI projects from planning through delivery.
• Prioritize technical enhancements, debt, reliability, and business priorities with stakeholders.
• Foster ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence.
• Help teams across Saxo adopt and leverage platform capabilities.

Skills

People leadership

Engineering leadership

Platform engineering

Stakeholder management

Architectural collaboration

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

.NET/C#

CI/CD

Job description

About the job

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the OpenAPI Framework team and help shape the future of Saxo's platform engineering landscape.

This is a leadership role for someone who enjoys working with high-performing teams, influencing technical strategy, and partnering with senior stakeholders across the organisation. You will lead a group of highly skilled, domain expert engineers while ensuring the components continue to evolve in line with Saxo's growing scale and business needs. Success in this role requires a balance of people leadership, technical credibility, strategic thinking, and operational excellence.

The OpenAPI Framework team is a core platform engineering team within Saxo's Platform Technology organization. The team consists of five experienced engineers. The team owns the API platform and framework capabilities that enable engineering teams across Saxo to build and operate secure, scalable services.

The team’s APIs, framework, and shared services underpin both internal and customer-facing solutions and play a key role in supporting Saxo’s trading, investing, and banking products. The team balances platform innovation, modernization, operational excellence, and developer productivity. The team serves as both a technology provider and strategic partner to engineering teams across Saxo.

As an Engineering Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead one of Saxo's strategic platform teams and have a significant impact on how software is built across the organization. You'll work alongside experienced engineers and technology leaders while helping shape the future of our engineering platform and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of highly skilled engineers.
• Drive recruitment, retention, and career development.
• Define and execute the technology strategy for the OpenAPI Framework domain.
• Partner with architects, principal engineers, and engineering leaders on platform evolution.
• Lead the successful execution of OpenAPI projects from planning through delivery
• Effectively evaluate and prioritize technical enhancements, technical debt, reliability, and business priorities. This includes strong alignment with several stakeholders and within the team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence.
• Help teams across Saxo successfully adopt and leverage platform capabilities.

While this is primarily a leadership role, you should be technically curious and strive to build a deep understanding of the team's owned components. Furthermore, you are comfortable engaging with senior engineers on architecture, engineering trade-offs, and platform strategy to support informed technical decision-making.

The team works with modern platform and cloud technologies, including:

• .NET and C#
• API and service-based architectures
• Azure cloud services
• Kubernetes and containerized workloads
• CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Observability and monitoring
• Security and authentication platforms
• Developer tooling and platform engineering

Your profile

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams in a complex environment.
• Strong people leadership and coaching skills.
• Experience with platform engineering, APIs, cloud technologies, or distributed systems.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries and building trusted partnerships with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to translate technical strategy into clear business value.
• Passion for fostering high performing teams, enhancing the developer experience, and empowering each team member to achieve their full potential.

We get curious people invested in the world

When you work at Saxo, you become a Saxonian and part of a purpose-driven organisation, where good ideas are always taken seriously, and where you can make a true impact. We are invested in your development, and you can expect a robust career from day one when you join Saxo – no matter which role you take on.

You will join 2,500 other ambitious colleagues across 11 countries and become part of an international organisation. Working in Saxo, you will get to meet colleagues from many different cultures and backgrounds, and you should know that we value diversity and inclusion and see it as a genuine source of strength to drive growth, foster innovation and position us for long-term success.

We encourage an open feedback culture and supportive team environments enabling employees to grow and fulfil their career aspirations.

When you bring passion, curiosity, drive and team spirit, your learning journey will be dynamic and your career opportunities in Saxo will be immense.

At Saxo we don’t just offer a job – we offer an opportunity to invest in your future!

Location

Headquarters