Engineering Manager

Viribus; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly growing investment manager is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead development efforts in investment technology. This role combines hands-on development, team management, and strategic technical leadership, focusing on improving technological solutions for financial services. The successful candidate will have a strong background in software engineering and investment management.

Benefits

Bonus

Pension (9% non-contributory with matching)

4 x Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Season Ticket Loan

BUPA Private Medical

Private GP

Travel Insurance

Health and Wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Experienced Software Engineer with leadership skills.
• Knowledge in investment management and financial services is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead development efforts across technical teams and define solutions.
• Engage with users to understand business requirements and deliver technical solutions.
• Manage and mentor software engineers, promoting career development.

Skills

Knowledge of Investment Management

Managing a team of software engineers

.NET Core

C#

NodeJS/JavaScript

SQL Server

MongoDB

Docker

Agile

Python

Job description

Engineering Manager – Central London / Hybrid Remote working

Paying up to £125,000 (flexible based on experience), plus benefits listed at the bottom of this advert

Role Overview

A highly regarded investment manager is seeing year-on-year growth and a big investment in their technology capabilities and is looking to hire an Engineering Manager who’s an experienced Software Engineer to lead the development efforts related to their investment technologies and build solutions that meet their requirements.

The company continues to mature their technology application architecture with a mix of vendor packages and custom-built applications. As the Engineering Manager, you will own the technical domain and be responsible for developing, integrating and implementing the technology solutions used by their Portfolio Managers, Traders and Operational teams.

Additional Information

Their core investment platforms are Aladdin for their funds and derivatives book of business, and a new vendor platform (tbc) for their wealth and institutional book of business. They currently have an internal data warehouse, low code workflow and dashboard platforms and sophisticated investment risk and macro research internal platforms. The work will be a combination of integration of vendor platforms and in-house development of key capabilities not provided by the vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage with Front Office, Compliance and Operations users to understand business requirements and define appropriate technical solutions.
• Engage with peers and collaborate across the technical and functional stack, especially with their Client and Data technology teams.
• Plan the work required and lead the development efforts across the tech team providing technical direction and expertise.
• Hands-on development, build of fit-for-purpose software & seamlessly integrating systems to support investment requirements.
• Support business users.
• Line-manage software engineers with a view to develop their skills and further their career.
• Represent the investment tech team at various tech forums.
• Collaborate with peers on departmental engineering objectives: development tools and standards, developers efficiency / experience, architecture/frameworks/ security, continuous improvement activities etc.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Knowledge of Investment Management and Financial Services is essential, ideally gained through the implementation of a leading wealth management or asset management vendor package with complex integration effort.
• Experience of managing a team of software engineers

They are looking for a range of experience across the below but it’s not essential to have knowledge of everything or the specific tooling listed:

• Highly experienced and good working knowledge across the following technologies:
• Languages : .NET Core, C#, NodeJS/JavaScript,
• Development Environments: Visual Studio, SQL Server management studio, Oracle Developer
• Databases: MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Oracle, SQL Server
• Frameworks/Libraries/Tools – solid experience across the following:
• Deployment: Containerisation tools such as; Docker, Ansible or Kubernetes
• Understanding of Azure or Cloud Services
• Communication: Messaging (RabbitMQ), REST Web Services
• Workflow: WF
• GUI: JavaScript
• Office Automation: VSTO, Aspose.Words, Aspose.Excel
• Testing/CI : XUnit, MOQ, SpecFlow, TeamCity
• Deployment: Octopus / Azure DevOps
• Methodologies: experience of working on Agile projects
• Good understanding of SOA/Microservices based architectures
• Good understanding of OOP, SOLID principles and software design patterns
• Knowledge of Python (Jupyter notebooks)

Benefits offered

Bonus, Pension (9% non-contributory plus additional matched contributions), 4 x Life Assurance, Group Income Protection, Season Ticket Loan, GAYE, BUPA Private Medical, Private GP, Travel Insurance, Buy-and-sell of Holiday, Variety of Health and Wellbeing benefits including Headspace App Subscription, Fitness Classes, plus more

If you are an experienced Software Engineer with the leadership experience and the listed skills and experience above then please apply now to find out more.