Senior Software Development Manager

Description

The company is a financial markets infrastructure and data business headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

It has supported the financial stability and growth of communities and economies for more than 300 years, using trusted market infrastructure services and an open-access model.

The company employs 25,000 people, more than half of them in Asia Pacific, and its workforce spans 65 countries.

This is a Manager-level role leading an engineering team that builds strategic services for the company's flagship platform.

The company is looking for curious people who want to understand where the technology industry is heading, ask hard questions and work through complicated problems.

The company is committed to sustainability and partners with customers on their own sustainability goals. Its charity, the company Foundation, gives grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities, and colleagues can fundraise and volunteer.

The company values individuality and wants you to bring your whole self to work.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across the full development lifecycle, covering requirements, architecture, implementation, unit testing and integration.
• Keep work aligned with the product roadmap, manage iterative releases and make sound decisions throughout delivery.
• Support the team directly by writing code, running code reviews and contributing to system design.
• Work with business, product and engineering colleagues to define and refine requirements for strategic improvements to the platform services.
• Partner with DevOps to keep infrastructure reliable, scalable and well monitored so service stays uninterrupted.
• Explain business and technical strategy to your team and check that it matches organisational goals.
• Report regularly to the Development Director on progress, architecture decisions, dependencies and roadblocks.
• Coach team members to grow their technical skills, development practices and ways of working, and take part in recruitment to build the team.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and at least one back-end programming language.
• Advantageous: experience with Azure, Terraform and Python.
• A strong grasp of modern web technologies, Linux, containerisation, and designing and running critical, high-volume distributed systems.
• Beneficial: experience with API gateways or web traffic management technologies.
• A consistent record of managing several projects and complex product cycles in Agile, including leading distributed, cross-functional teams to deliver on schedule.
• The ability to set the technical vision and architecture for critical platform components, make sound engineering trade-offs and lead teams from design through delivery.
• Continued hands-on involvement in coding and application design alongside people and delivery management.
• Willingness to adopt AI-enabled tools such as copilots, automation and data-driven insights to improve productivity, decisions and ways of working.
• A customer-focused approach: you spot project opportunities, understand customer needs and turn them into clear, actionable requirements.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex technical decisions and influence senior leaders and business partners.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a solution-focused mindset.
• Strong leadership, organisation and interpersonal skills, including the emotional intelligence to build trust, develop people and lead through change.

Conditions

The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, disability or any other protected basis, and it makes reasonable accommodations for religious practices and for mental health or physical disability needs, in line with applicable law.

Benefits

• Access to a wide range of formal and informal learning tools for personal development.
• Competitive salary.
• 25 days' holiday per year, plus 1 additional day off for your birthday.
• An annual wellness allowance.
• A share purchase plan.
• Medical health insurance, plus a medical subscription covering preventive services.
• Life insurance and a Pillar 3 private pension.
• Meal vouchers and flexible benefits.
• Bookster, a books benefit.
• Volunteering events.
• Colleagues with at least one year's continuous service who become parents are entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and can return to work on a phased basis, in line with company policy and guidelines.