Integration Engineering Manager

Overview

As Engineering Manager, you will lead the Integration Engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable, and observable solutions across AJ Bell. You’ll drive a culture of high performance, coach engineers to technical leadership, and contribute to architectural discussions. Your role sits at the intersection of product, operations, and technology, shaping how engineering capabilities evolve and expand across the organisation. This is a hands-on leadership role with a strong impact on speed, quality, and strategic delivery.

Pay / Benefits

• 27 days holiday
• 8% pension with matched contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
• Free onsite gym

Responsibilities

• Own a strategic engineering capability that influences engineering practices across AJ Bell
• Build a culture of continuous improvement and high performance
• Drive adoption and evolution of the ETL Streaming platform
• Establish a new capability for evolving critical business processes
• Encourage innovation and collaboration across diverse teams
• Promote AI-assisted software engineering to increase pace and quality
• Lead, coach and develop engineers into technical leaders
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical design discussions
• Manage stakeholders effectively and balance product, operational, regulatory and strategic priorities

Key requirements

• Experience leading software engineering teams
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills
• Proven ability to develop engineers into technical leaders
• Experience building high-performing cultures
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Right balance of management and technology focus
• Deep background in software engineering
• Experience in software and system integration
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture
• Experience operating critical production services
• Knowledge of cloud-native architecture
• Confident in technical design and discussion
• Experience owning and evolving engineering platforms used by multiple development teams

• collaboration
• communication
• leadership
• Event-driven architecture
• Software integration
• Cloud-native architecture

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