Senior Engineering Manager

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager: Leading multiple engineering squads to deliver high-quality product increments for a risk intelligence platform with an accent on engineering strategy, technical excellence, and team growth. Focus on evolving platform architecture (microservices, eventing, data pipelines), championing sound engineering practices, and ensuring compliance for financial crime risk management systems.

Location: Onsite in Nottingham or London, UK

Company

hirify.global is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business, headquartered in the United Kingdom, focusing on driving financial stability and enabling sustainable growth.

What you will do

• Lead and develop 15–20 engineers and managers across 3–6 squads, hiring, onboarding, coaching, and retaining top talent.
• Own outcomes for your domain, including roadmap delivery, quality, SLOs, and cost efficiency across multiple products/services.
• Partner with Architecture and Feature Architects to evolve platform strategy (microservices, eventing, data pipelines, APIs) and simplify complexity.
• Champion sound engineering practices like CI/CD, trunk-based development, testing pyramid, infra as code, and observability.
• Own non‑functional requirements, including performance, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery within SLO/SLA targets.
• Partner with Product Management and Delivery Management to develop roadmaps, define outcomes, and handle trade‑offs.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years in software engineering with 4+ years leading managers and multi‑squad groups in a product environment.
• Validated delivery of large-scale, distributed systems with high availability and compliance/security requirements.
• Deep understanding of agile delivery at scale (Scrum/Kanban), continuous delivery, and modern DevOps/SRE practices.
• Strong communication skills; able to translate sophisticated technical topics into business outcomes.
• Experience with one or more relevant stacks (e.g., Java, Vue), cloud platforms (AWS), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain diverse engineering talent; track record building high-performing teams.

Nice to have

• Domain experience in AML/KYC, sanctions screening, adverse media, or risk/intelligence data products.
• Experience with data engineering and governance for regulated environments, including privacy/encryption, auditing, and lineage.
• Exposure to ISO 27001/SOC 2 controls, PCI/DSS, or similar regulatory frameworks.
• Experience shaping platform strategies (multi‑tenant, regional deployments, data residency).

Culture & Benefits

• Embrace diversity, teamwork, and innovation, fostering an inclusive culture where everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.
• Encouragement for personal growth through a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities to broaden and deepen skills and expertise.
• Culture built on core values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence, and Change.
• Commitment to sustainability across the global business and through the hirify.global Foundation.
• Range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
• Opportunity to be part of a dynamic organization of 25,000 people across 65 countries.