Engineering Manager in SimCorp’s AI Acceleration Area

SimCorp; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Hybrid model

Professional development

Job summary

SimCorp in Warsaw is seeking an Engineering Manager for its AI Acceleration Area. You will lead a growing team of AI engineers, align delivery with business outcomes, and partner with Product, UX, and other engineering managers.

You will coach teams in agile practices, act as Scrum Master for 1-2 small squads, help define OKRs, and foster a culture of psychological safety and innovation while delivering impact for SimCorp's prestigious financial clients.

Qualifications

• Leads and grows AI engineering teams, focusing on delivering business outcomes.
• Acts as servant leader and coaches engineers across Warsaw.
• Experience in recruiting and building cross-functional teams.
• Strong foundation in agile methodologies and product development.
• Familiarity with AI workflows and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build up a team of AI engineers in Warsaw by hiring talents with the right capabilities and mindset.
• Continuously coach and mentor engineers in your reporting line.
• Serve as Scrum Master for 1-2 smaller teams focusing on AI initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including other Engineering Managers, Product Management, and UX.
• Set business goals using OKRs and improve agile processes for the area.
• Define engineering metrics to drive quality and improvements.
• Foster psychological safety and a culture of innovation.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Recruitment

Cross-functional teams

Agile practices

Scrum Master

AI knowledge

Job description

Engineering Manager in SimCorp’s AI Acceleration Area

WHAT MAKES US, US Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — Caring, Customer success-driven, Collaborative, Curious, and Courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

Product Development is the heart of SimCorp, where software engineering teams work relentlessly towards producing world class solutions. Engineering Managers are leading these teams, and they are key to our success. We are growing and evolving while using AI to turn FinTech of yesterday into compelling visionary solutions of tomorrow. If you are interested in in FinTech and the possibilities AI offer, come join us on our journey.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Building up a team of AI engineers in Warsaw by hiring talents with the right capabilities and mindset.
• Further developing the competencies and capabilities of the engineers in Warsaw location through continuously coaching and mentoring of engineers in your reporting line.
• Being the servant leader and taking on the role as Scrum Master of 1-2 smaller teams working on AI initiatives with focus on ensuring they are achieving the desired business outcomes.
• Working closely with a number of stakeholders including other Engineering Managers, Product Management, and UX to understand and refine the customer outcomes that you and your teams are responsible for delivering.
• Helping the teams set business goals using the OKR framework, and contributing to implement and improve agile processes for your teams as well as our area as a whole.
• Understanding and defining relevant engineering metrics to gain insight into the quality of your team’s software deliveries and help drive improvements.
• Fostering a healthy working environment with psychological safety and a culture of innovation within the teams you lead as well as among the engineers within your reporting line.

WHAT WE VALUE

• A modern leadership mindset with focus on motivating and empowering engineers to take holistic ownership of their work and the business outcome.
• Personal accountability and initiative.When something is unclear, you dig in rather than wait for someone to hand you an answer. You are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and you follow through.
• Experience with engineering recruitment and building teams cross functional teams.
• Strong technical foundation and experience from a product development organization working as an engineer as well as in the role of scrum master or agile coach.
• Focus on continuously collecting feedback and taking action to drive improvements and personal growth.
• Experience from a global company with distributed team – ideally within the financial sector.
• Experience with AI, vibe-coding, agentic workflows etc.

BENEFITS

• Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement.
• However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model.
• Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.
• Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds. SimCorp is a provider of industry-leading integrated investment management solutions for the global buy side. Founded in 1971, with more than 3,000 employees across five continents, SimCorp is a truly global technology leader that empowers more than half of the world’s top 100 financial companies through its integrated platform, services, and partner ecosystem. SimCorp is a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group. As of 2024, SimCorp includes Axioma, the leading provider of risk and management and portfolio optimization solutions for the global buy side.