Engineering Manager (Platform Engineering)

As part of SimCorp's strategic vision, the focus on Platform Leadership, SaaS Acceleration, and Ecosystem Scaling underscores the essential role of our Platform organization in delivering reliable, precise, and efficient operational services. The Platform and Technology Engineering team is committed to accelerating standard processes and delivering high-quality software to drive the growth and efficiency of SimCorp’s SaaS business. This role involves leading and managing a team of engineers, contributing to team growth, developing team members through mentorship and coaching, ensuring focus on sprint commitments, and fostering a healthy working environment. The manager will also collaborate with other leaders to drive cross-team initiatives and ensure engineering excellence.

Must Have

• Relevant managerial experience with a demonstrated ability to inspire, develop, and lead engineering teams
• A solid grasp of agile methods, structures, and components
• Experience with Platform Engineering or DevOps
• A focused drive and motivation to build and sustain high-performing teams
• Experience promoting agile ways of working and continuous improvement within a team
• Solid organizational, planning, and documentation skills
• High interpersonal skills and a service-oriented, supportive leadership style
• A mindset focused on building a workplace where collaboration, transparency, and openness are prioritized
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across multiple regions, cultures, and time zones
• Alignment with our core values: Caring, Customer Success Driven, Collaboration, Curious, Courageous

Perks & Benefits

• Attractive salary
• Bonus scheme
• Pension
• Good work and life balance
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid workplace model (2 days in office, other days remote)

WHAT MAKES US, US

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

As part of our strategic vision, the focus on Platform Leadership, SaaS Acceleration, and Ecosystem Scaling underscores the essential role of our Platform organization in delivering reliable, precise, and efficient operational services. As a Platform and Technology Engineering team, we are committed to accelerating standard processes and delivering high-quality software to drive the growth and efficiency of our SaaS business.

Join our Platform - Engineering department and be part of our innovative software development teams, a strategically vital division responsible for delivering solutions to clients worldwide.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a genuine interest in people leadership and technology, ready to join our global organization that includes multiple leaders and 300+ engineers across the world, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Noida, and Mexico. This is an opportunity to work with modern technologies and play an essential role in how we build and operate our platform for our clients.

What you will be responsible for:

As an Engineering Manager, your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and managing a team of engineers located in Manila, Copenhagen, Warsaw and Kyiv, in close collaboration with other Engineering Managers across multiple product areas.
• Contributing to team growth, including hiring and onboarding, with plans to expand the team further this year.
• Developing your team through mentorship, coaching, feedback, and clear goal-setting.
• Ensuring focus on sprint commitments and longer-term team development.
• Creating and maintaining a healthy, engaging, and psychologically safe working environment.
• Collaborating with fellow engineering leaders to drive cross-team initiatives and support knowledge sharing across locations.
• Ensuring engineering excellence within your area together with Tech Leads, including code quality, reliability, and continuous improvement.

What we value:

• Relevant managerial experience with a demonstrated ability to inspire, develop, and lead engineering teams.
• A solid grasp of agile methods, structures, and components
• Experience with Platform Engineering or DevOps
• A focused drive and motivation to build and sustain high-performing teams
• Experience promoting agile ways of working and continuous improvement within a team.
• Solid organizational, planning, and documentation skills.
• High interpersonal skills and a service-oriented, supportive leadership style.
• A mindset focused on building a workplace where collaboration, transparency, and openness are prioritized.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across multiple regions, cultures, and time zones.
• Alignment with our core values: Caring, Customer Success Driven, Collaboration, Curious, Courageous.

Others:

• Hybrid work arrangement (2x/week)
• Flexible between APAC and EMEA

BENEFITS:

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work and life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid workplace model. Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days.

NEXT STEP:

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

WHO WE ARE:

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

SimCorp Manila proudly announces that its Manila Delivery Center has been officially certified as a Great Place To Work for the second consecutive year – Apr25-Apr26 This certification underscores SimCorp's effort to cultivating a workplace that is not only inclusive and collaborative but also committed to the personal and professional growth of its employees

We are also honored to have been voted as a WealthTech100 company for three consecutive years. The new WealthTech100 list aims to highlight tech innovation leaders in the investment management industry.

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