Engineering Manager

Canada Life Group (UK) Ltd (The); Bath; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company based in Bath is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead their Home Finance product engineering team. The successful candidate will oversee systems that power mortgage origination and servicing capabilities. This role emphasizes shaping a modern Ruby on Rails-based platform and driving cloud adoption as well as creating an inclusive and empowering engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Home Finance product engineering team and oversee the systems powering mortgage origination and servicing capabilities.
• Shape the evolution of the bespoke Ruby on Rails-based mortgage origination and servicing platform.
• Ensure true empowerment and autonomy within stream-aligned product teams.
• Drive cloud adoption, DevSecOps, automation, and continuous improvement across the lifecycle.
• Foster a culture that values curious, collaborative, and inclusive engineering.

Job description

Overview

Canada Life UK has helped individuals, families and businesses secure their financial futures for over 120 years. Today, we are transforming our technology, culture and ways of working to become a more modern, customer centric and engineering led organisation. As we modernise our IT estate and shift toward cloud, SaaS/PaaS and product centric delivery, we are investing heavily in engineering excellence, empowered teams and great leadership. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Home Finance product engineering team – a group responsible for the systems that power our mortgage origination and servicing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Home Finance product engineering team and oversee the systems powering mortgage origination and servicing capabilities.
• Shape the evolution of the bespoke Ruby on Rails-based mortgage origination and servicing platform, architecting modern, resilient and scalable solutions.
• Ensure true empowerment and autonomy within stream-aligned product teams, with authority over technology decisions, people development, engineering standards and team culture.
• Drive cloud adoption, DevSecOps, automation, data-driven decision making and continuous improvement across the lifecycle.
• Foster a culture that values people—engineers who are curious, collaborative and inclusive, enabling them to do their best work.

Qualifications

No qualifications are listed in the provided description.