Overview:
This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world. Technology is central to Man’s business strategy and we are constantly looking at better ways of doing things. Our culture embraces change; indeed change is the norm rather than the exception in a constantly evolving organisation and industry.
We are looking for skilled engineers with a genuine passion for technology to work within the Enterprise Engineering Compliance and Regulatory team. This group is responsible for the technology solutions implemented across Reg Ops space.
All roles will have a balance of BAU and Project work. BAU work will involve maintaining the existing tech stack, 3rd line support and supporting the business with smaller enhancements and fixes, whilst project work will consist of longer term, more far-reaching changes that are a mixture of extending existing systems, incorporating new technologies and building out our strategic technology platform in line with our long-term vision.
This opening has the potential to be high profile role with extensive interaction with business stakeholders and senior management across Man Group, so would suit individuals who thrive in those environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Owning the end-to-end delivery process – from requirements gathering through to development, testing and coordinating deployment to production
- Participating in/owning the planning, design and delivery of longer term projects
- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing amongst peers
- View stakeholder interaction as integral to successful delivery
- Continuous improvement of production components such as reducing tech debt, increasing release quality and improving resource utilization
- Encourage and drive adoption of best practices and help improve business knowledge and understanding within the team
- Support for production systems and BAU requests
- Depending on seniority – mentoring more junior members of the team
Key Skills
- Strong delivery focused approach, ensuring business value is being met
- Core experience in C# and .NET
- Query writing, schema design and performance tuning in MS SQL Server
- Ability to balance business delivery and incremental adoption of new architectural platform features
- Proponent of collaborative software engineering techniques and methods
- Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views
Useful Experience
- Any working knowledge of Kafka, Mongo
Where will I be working?
We operate a successful hybrid working model, with members of the team attending the office for three days per week, more if desired.
We always encourage a high rate of in person attendance to begin with in order to forge strong relationships with your peers and allow the best opportunity to learn from others in the team.
Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man
Man Group is proud to provide the best working environment possible for all of its employees, and we are committed to equality of opportunity. At Man Group we believe that a diverse workforce is a critical factor in the success of our business, and this is embedded in our culture and values. We run a number of external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes that help us to attract and develop talent from diverse backgrounds and encourage diversity and inclusion across our firm and industry. https://www.man.com/diversity. Man Group is also a Signatory of the Women in Finance Charter.
Man Group supports many charities, and global initiatives. We support professional training and development, and requests for flexible or part-time working. Employees are also offered two 'Mankind' days of paid leave per year as part of the Man Charitable Trust's community volunteering programme.
We offer comprehensive, firm-wide employee benefits including competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Additional benefits are tailored to local markets and may include private medical coverage, discounted gym membership and wellbeing programmes.
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What We Do
Man Group is a global active investment management firm, which runs $127 billion* of client capital in liquid and private markets, managed by investment specialists based around the world. Headquartered in London, the firm has 15 international offices and operates across multiple jurisdictions. Our business has five specialist investment engines, which represent the range of our capabilities: Man AHL, Man Numeric, Man GLG, Man FRM and Man GPM.
These engines house numerous investment teams, working collaboratively within the framework of Man Group, with a high degree of investment autonomy. Each team benefits from the strength and resources of the firm’s single operating platform, enabling their primary focus to be seeking to generate alpha for clients. The teams invest across a diverse range of strategies and asset classes with highly specialised approaches, with long only and alternative strategies run on a discretionary and quantitative basis in single and multi-manager formats. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do and we engage in close dialogue with our investors as strategic partners, to understand their particular needs and constraints. Man Group’s investment teams are empowered and supported by our institutional infrastructure and technology, which aims to facilitate the efficient exposure to markets and effective collaboration across the organisation.
