Engineering Manager

NatWest Group; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK financial institution is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of talented engineers in building products with a focus on high-quality delivery. This role involves coaching the team, managing expectations, and supporting services under ownership to meet service objectives. Candidates should have strong leadership skills, experience with scalable systems, and expertise in cloud infrastructure. The position offers a remote-first working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading a team of skilled engineers.
• Strong practical knowledge of software development.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver high-quality engineering work.
• Support team to meet defined service levels.
• Develop talent and maintain a high-performance culture.

Skills

Building and designing scalable systems

Leadership skills

Software development lifecycle

Microservice architectures

Containerisation

Observability tooling

Job description

Overview

Join us as an Engineering Manager

• In this key role, you’ll be leading a team of talented and creative engineers to build products
• We’ll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact
• It’s a great opportunity to be recognised for your expertise and knowledge as you contribute to the bank-wide strategy

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be implementing and deploying engineering work with the team. You’ll work closely with the team’s product owner and delivery manager to plan and prioritise impactful technology investment initiatives.

Day‑to‑day

• Working with our staff engineers, making sure the team delivers the highest standards of technical design and implementation
• Coaching your team to maintain a high level of delivery performance and predictability, while managing the expectations of stakeholders
• Identifying and eliminating challenges, enabling the engineers to perform
• Supporting your team to ensure the services under your ownership meet defined SLOs agreed in collaboration with your product peers
• Developing talent and maintaining a supportive and engaging team culture that’s focused on high performance

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of building and designing scalable and performant systems and making significant contributions to the wider engineering goals of an organisation. We’ll look to you to have excellent leadership skills and experience of leading a team of highly skilled engineers.

You’ll also have:

• Strong practical and theoretical knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Experience with microservice architectures utilising event driven/sourced patterns
• Experience of containerisation and cloud infrastructure
• Experience employing observability tooling to monitor and detect proactively disruptions to the live service

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

Job Posting Closing Date: 22/01/2026

Ways of Working

Remote First