Engineering Lead - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Who we're looking for

We're after a very experienced and capable engineer to work with our development teams to deliver high-quality software, quickly and reliably, that has a tangible impact on our business.

You must be proficient and up-to-date in your field, have a good idea of how to design software for future supportability and extensibility, and be able to command the respect of your engineering peers immediately.

As an Engineering Lead, your focus will be twofold.

Firstly, you will spend time with teams across your area, working on delivery, guiding their design and implementation, spotting opportunities to improve what they do, sharing new ideas and best practice,and measuring the difference you make.

You'll also be guiding and mentoring other engineers in your area, including contributing technical objectives and reviewing subsequent performance.

Secondly, you will spend time working with Enterprise Software Engineering and other Engineering Leads, helping to shape the software engineering culture at Schroders.

You'll contribute to standards, patterns, practices, reference architectures, shared components,and many other things that will improve the way we deliver software to the business.

You'll need to be a versatile and active engineer, and be able to express your ideas clearly, without being too wedded to them.

You'll put collaboration at the heart of your approach to software development, inviting input widely and making sure all voicesare heard.

About Schroders
We're a global investment manager.

We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
Technology at Schroders

Schroders' Global Technology (GT) function is organised into a number of teams, distributed across Schroders' global offices, with Technology hubs in London, Luxembourg, New York, Singapore and Zurich.

The software development and technology function is split between 5 business-facing technology domains:

Corporate Technology
Digital, Distribution and Marketing Technology
Investment Technology
Operations and Private Assets Technology
Wealth Management Technology domain.

In addition there are teams which operate as shared services to Technology namely:

Enterprise Technology (comprising our Architecture, Cloud, Data, Delivery and Engineering practices)
End-User and Production Services (including production support, release and access control)
Information Security and Risk
GT Management Office in which sit our Business Management teams and our Chief of Staff.

The Global Technology vision is to change the impact we have on the firm bringing about positive outcomes for our colleagues, clients and shareholders.

The base
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.
The team

You will join a business facing technology delivery domain where you will take on the Engineering Lead responsibilities for one or more software delivery teams.

As an Engineering Lead, you will also form part of the broader Enterprise Engineering function.

This function exists to help us improve the way we provide business value through quality, predictable, and supportable software delivery.

Enterprise Software Engineeringalso houses our DevOps toolchain team and our Quality Engineering team.
What you'll do

Work across teams in your area, guiding design and development with your technical expertise, and getting your hands dirty on implementation as needed
Bring the experience and knowhow to find the right balance between fast delivery, and longer term sustainable delivery
Drive a continuous delivery approach which focusses on developing software iteratively, with fast feedback loops, frequent releases, and a "shiftleft" approach to testing
Create an inclusive and collaborative engineering environment in which all voices are heard
Bring all your talents to help shape our shared software engineering culture across the entire organisation
Work in close collaboration with your delivery and product counterparts sharing the responsibility for managing those in your teams to support their inrole development and career progression
Collaborate with and contribute to the engineering community, helping to define best good practice and contributing to the ongoing improvement to our ways of working
Support the smooth running of teams with administrative activities such as budgeting and forecasting.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

Strong expertise in at least one of C#/.Net, Python, and/or React
Good experience of cloud based data platform technologies e.g. Snowflake, Terraform, is an advantage
Plenty of experience in the full lifecycle of developing software from the first idea to the final execution in an agile environment
An excellent understanding of testing approaches and putting testability at the heart of software design and development
A natural systemlevel thinker who works with developers and Solution Architects alike to ensure design and technology choices are appropriate.
Great design skills, starting from client needs and operational processes, to ultimately ensure solutions are modelled around the business domain need
Excellent written and spoken English, and well developed communication skills to help manage relationships with stakeholders of all levels
Ability to produce and communicate effective and insightful thought leadership on technical topics

What you'll be like