Engineering Manager - Provisioning

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension plan

Life insurance

Parental leave

25 days holiday

Learning resources

Tech stipend

Job summary

Thought Machine is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Provisioning platform to lead a team delivering scalable cloud-native infrastructure. You will balance hands-on technical work with people leadership, drive architectural decisions, and grow engineers in a fast-paced, hyper-growth fintech environment.

You will manage a group of engineers across provisioning tooling, with emphasis on Kubernetes clusters, AWS/GCP/Azure, and modern tech stacks (Go, Python).

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience of engineering management in platform teams.
• Experience in a cloud-native environment using Kubernetes and modern stacks.
• Ability to drive technical decisions and communicate with users.
• Experience developing platforms/tools used by engineers.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in technical discussions and design reviews.
• Take a data-driven approach and measure team impact from usage data.
• Understand needs, challenges, and impediments of internal teams; propose solutions.
• Contribute to platform vision and strategy aligned with business goals.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives (recruitment, processes).
• Develop engineers on the team and support career growth.
• Lead by example with code reviews and hands-on technical work.
• Champion industry best practices and emerging trends.

Skills

Engineering management

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Go

Python

AWS/GCP/Azure

Platform development

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Go

Python

Job description

Thought Machine's mission is bold - to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.

We have grown rapidly in the past few years - growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more.

We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years-and a UK Best Employer for 2026.

Engineering Managers at Thought Machine lead complex technical projects to deliver on our roadmap. To accomplish this you will manage a group of talented engineers as they identify issues and implement creative solutions to address them. You will manage your own project deliverables, contribute to the vision and strategy of your area and help develop and grow your team. We are particularly excited to hear from people who show strong product ownership and enjoy switching between engineering management and being hands-on with technical work.

At Thought Machine we operate more than 200 Kubernetes clusters at any given time, hosting our internal fleet of development and test environments for each of our products. We've invested heavily in automated provisioning platform so that these environments can be created and deleted on demand by both our technical and non-technical teams. As the Engineering Manager for our Provisioning team, you will develop this platform and extend its capabilities to bring benefits to our internal and external customers.

Duties

• Actively participating in technical discussions and design reviews.
• Taking a data driven approach and measuring your team's impact with the data you can collect directly from your users.
• Understanding the needs, challenges and impediments of internal teams so you can identify solutions and measure success
• Contributing to the vision and strategy of your platform area, aligning it with broader engineering and business goals.
• Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes.
• Develop engineers in your team and help them in their career development.
• Leading by example: Code reviews and hands on technical work
• Championing industry best practices and emerging trends to keep our team ahead of the curve.

Essential

• 2+ years experience of engineering management in platform teams
• Experience of working in a cloud-native environment, using modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, golang/python).
• Technical background to drive technical decisions and great interpersonal skills to drive communication with your users. You should enjoy working in environments where you have a high level of responsibility and autonomy.
• You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves.
• You have experience developing platforms and tools that are used by other engineers either internally or externally.

Desirable

• Experience working in or managing internal platform teams
• Previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.
• Taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.
• Previously worked in a hyper-growth environment.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan (match up to 5%)
• Life insurance - three times annual salary
• Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
• Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
• 25 days holiday and bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric car scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
• Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
• A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we