Responsibilities
- People Leadership & Coaching
- Line manage, mentor, and coach Software Engineers to support their professional growth, performance, and career development.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and capability development across the engineering function.
- Lead and participate in design and architectural sessions, partnering closely with the Architecture function to deliver compliant, scalable, cloud-ready solutions.
- Contribute hands-on to development, ensuring best practices, maintainability, and technical quality.
- Drive the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, guiding teams on how LLMs and automation can enhance productivity and quality.
- Own the lifecycle of delivery for your team, ensuring clear visibility of progress, quality, and key engineering metrics.
- Ensure strong adherence to Star’s SDLC, engineering standards, version-control practices, and quality expectations.
- Play a key role in defining, optimising, and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and associated tooling.
- Support the technical strategy and evolution of Star’s SaaS platform, contributing to modernisation, scaling, and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Work closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, QA, Architecture, and Cloud teams to ensure alignment on priorities, scope, design, and delivery.
- Advocate for engineering needs, design integrity, maintainability, and long-term platform health.
- Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, providing clear updates, risks, and mitigation plans
Skills and Experience
- Essential Technical Skills
- Extensive experience leading and mentoring high-performing software engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on expertise with the Microsoft .NET ecosystem:
- C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Visual Studio.
- Solid understanding of web technologies such as JavaScript, React, Angular, HTML.
- Strong grounding in software engineering principles, including SOLID, design patterns, and scalable architecture.
- Experience delivering enterprise-grade, cloud-hosted applications.
- Strong understanding of relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
- Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines and cloud technologies; Azure experience strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with PaaS, cloud infrastructure fundamentals, and SaaS operational considerations.
- Proven success overseeing large or complex software development projects.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of working across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
- Ability to analyse requirements, propose solutions, and guide teams through delivery.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and drive their adoption across the team.
- Experience or interest in AI-enabled engineering practices, including use of LLMs for productivity, code generation, or testing.
- Experience working in a modern, Agile, cloud-first SaaS environment.
- Exposure to microservices, distributed systems, and modern architectural patterns.
- Degree or Similar
- All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner.
Top Skills
What We Do
StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance software to the global financial industry. Our clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms, insurance providers, investment banks, and diversified financial institutions. Our scalable, easy-to-use solutions provide a 360-degree view of employee and business activity to help firms monitor and reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, gain efficiencies, and drive employee adoption.
Our Employee Conflicts of Interest suite provides clients a single place for monitoring and mitigating potential employee conflicts, covering: personal trading activity; insider trading; private investments, gifts and entertainment spending; outside business activities; and political donations. The STAR Mobile app supports personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts and entertainment spending submissions, and allows compliance officers and employee supervisors to review and approve those requests and submissions on-the-go. Compliance Control Room centralizes all firm deal-related activity—automatically surfacing critical data that might otherwise be missed—and allowing for easier conflict searches, so deals can be cleared faster and with greater confidence.
