Senior Engineering Manager

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, with SimCorp as the overarching company brand and Axioma as a key product brand.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated in 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.

While seeking to deliver client value, we believe it is vital to consider our people and our planet in every business decision we make. Acting responsibly is not optional. It is essential.

Our platform and ecosystem, which comprises partners, services, and third-party connectivity, empowers us to provide 40 percent of the world’s top 100 financial companies with the efficiency and flexibility needed to succeed. SimCorp provides clients with a full front-to-back-offering, whether through a SaaS (software as a service) platform or as an on-premise solution. Globally, we support clients, ranging from central banks and sovereign wealth funds to pension and insurance funds, asset managers, fund managers, asset servicers, and wealth managers.

As a global provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) investment management solutions, SimCorp supports clients 24/7 through delivery centers around the world. Our Global Delivery Centers are located in Mexico in the Philippines, Noida in India, Kyiv in Ukraine, Warsaw in Poland, and in Mexico City, Mexico.

Since its inception in 1971, SimCorp has collaborated extensively with investment professionals to create a highly esteemed platform. Today, SimCorp is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. The combined company employs over 3.100 people globally, spanning more than 30 offices worldwide.

As part of SimCorp's strategic vision for 2025, the focus on Platform Leadership, SaaS Acceleration, and Ecosystem Scaling underscores the essential role of SaaS Innovation in delivering reliable, precise, and efficient operational services. As a Platform and Technology DevOps team, we are committed to accelerating standard processes to drive the growth and efficiency of SimCorp’s SaaS business.

Why is this role important to us:

As a Senior Engineering Manager (EM), you will play a pivotal role in modernizing and operating our engineering platform. The platform scales to support 100+ teams working on a cloud technology transformation. This journey involves enabling automated deployment capabilities, enhancing UI and API experience for internal and external stakeholders, supporting SimCorp One vision. As an EM, you will lead a cross-organizational effort, collaborating with product, architecture, and services teams to ensure the engineering platform supports various product deliveries and technology enablers.

What you will be responsible for:

As an EM you will be responsible for leading 2 software development teams and reporting to Head of Service Orchestration.

You are the leader of 2 teams of Software Engineers with responsibility for hiring, growing, and upskilling your team through 1:1s, feedback, mentoring, coaching, and goal setting. Facilitate agile team processes and help remove impediments that block the team’s progress. Working with stakeholders across the organization to ensure that the team's work is aligned with the overall business strategy. You understand and define relevant engineering KPIs to gain insights into your team’s performance and to help drive improvement, for example in product quality, security, delivery, system performance etc. Staying up to date with the latest developments in engineering and technology, and advising the organization on new tools, techniques, and strategies that can improve engineering processes and outcomes.

Overall, an EM plays a crucial role in leading and guiding the teams within SimCorp, ensuring that teams are well-positioned to support the SimCorp’s goals and objectives. 

What we value:

• You are an engineer at heart, with a passion for improving things – whether that is people, process, or technology.

• Conceptual understanding of TDD and Agile practices (Scrum and Kanban).

• You have a degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or similar.

• Experience working in an international setting with people from different cultures and time zones to ensure smooth collaboration.

• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English (speaking and writing).

NEXT STEPS 

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. 

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