Squad Engineering Manager - Cloud- Fintech

Harvey Nash Group; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in London is seeking a strong engineering leader to build and run resilient cloud platforms. You will collaborate across teams, embrace a product mindset, and ensure operational excellence through strong engineering culture. Candidates should be proficient in JavaScript and TypeScript, with a good understanding of AWS best practices and infrastructure-as-code.

Qualifications

• Experience building and running resilient cloud platforms.
• Comfortable with JavaScript/TypeScript and open to Go or Python.
• Engaging with stakeholders and framing problems effectively.
• Collaborating across teams to ensure platform stability.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams at the intersection of infrastructure and product.
• Define direction, drive delivery, and communicate team output.
• Drive operational excellence and automation.

Skills

strong engineering leadership

JavaScript

TypeScript

product mindset

AWS best practices

infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

monitoring (Datadog)

Job description

Overview

This role is for you if:

• You're a strong engineering leader with experience building and running resilient cloud platforms, and you enjoy leading teams that sit at the intersection of infrastructure and product.
• You're a pragmatic software engineer—comfortable with JavaScript/TypeScript but also open to other languages like Go or Python.
• You take a product mindset to platform work: engaging with stakeholders, framing problems, setting priorities, and communicating trade-offs.
• You enjoy collaborating across engineering, product, and operations to align goals and ensure platform stability and scalability.
• You care deeply about operational excellence, automation, and making things reliable, secure, and easy to use.
• You've led or contributed to modern cloud-native environments and are fluent in AWS best practices, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and monitoring (Datadog).
• You thrive in an environment where you're empowered to define direction, drive delivery, and represent your team's work to the wider business.
• You want to be part of a company on a mission to transform investment infrastructure through thoughtful technology and strong engineering culture.