Senior Engineering Manager - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

Senior Engineering Manager

Location – London City (Hybrid)

Salary - £150-175k basic + good bonus

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Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager or a Lead Level Software Engineer to join a trillion dollar fund manager based in the city of London. You will be equally responsible for writing code, managing a small team and performing business analysis.

Role summary and job responsibilities

• Manages a development team to deliver projects which achieve target outcomes.
• Demonstrates exceptional leadership and hands-on capability to drive components to delivery.
• Enables engineers to design and develop architecture solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.
• Apply people management skills to coach, mentor and develop engineers on the team
• Assume ownership over the quality, TCO, maintainability and security of the solutions built by our team.
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to individuals and teams using data to reinforce learning.
• Overcome differences of opinion and drive team alignment around a specific goal or solution
• Own technical debt across their development team.

Software Lifecycle Leadership

• Able to give quality feedback on designs written by other members of my team, asking probing, insightful questions that solidify choices and surface erroneous assumptions.
• Encourage ways to simplify systems.
• Look for opportunities that will lead to lower maintenance and costs with meaningful and measurable impact.
• Pre-emptively identify technical risks before they jeopardize the project.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies earlier to ensure the successful execution of the project.

Requirements

• Experienced in leading large software development projects in terms of team size, technical complexity and/or organizational complexity.
• At ease with implementing scrum ceremonies, especially in the face of day to day delivery pressures.
• Software engineering experience with data, microservices, frameworks, and platform development
• Coding experience and solid working knowledge of .Net and one or more additional programming languages such as .NET Core/C#, Typescript, Javascript, Python, Java, etc.
• 3+ years of business systems analysis or experience working with data and analyzing data preferred
• Experience designing and delivering frameworks focused on data pipelines, data catalogs, data distribution, and/or advanced analytics
• Proficient with a range of open-source frameworks and development tools - .Net Framework (Standard/ Core), AWS Lambda and Step Functions, SNS, SQS, S3, NoSQL databases, Git/ Unity, ReactJS/Modern UI frameworks etc.
• Exposure to some of the following concepts: object-oriented programming, quality assurance, parallel programming, databases, networking, etc.
• Understanding of ATDD, TDD, and test automation and desire to write simple, adaptive and iterative code.

Desirable

• Experience building containerized applications and deploying to public or private clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar providers.
• Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks such as React or similar
• Proven working knowledge of Risk analytics platforms
• Open source involvement such as a well-curated blog, accepted contribution, or community presence.
• Scrum Developer or Scrum Master certification.
• Experience in front office software development with an Asset Management, Hedge fund, or Investment Bank.