Manager, Engineering

Engineering Manager – SaaS Onboarding and Reliability

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 to SimCorp!

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 an Engineering Manager (SRE) in our SaaS division, you will lead one or more Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams within a Product Area. These teams ensure high availability, performance, and operational excellence across our Azure-hosted SaaS platforms, supporting both onboarding and running client environments.

You will focus on creating an environment where engineers can thrive, deliver reliably, and continuously improve our infrastructure. This includes hiring, coaching, technical guidance, and collaboration with product and engineering leadership to ensure scalable, secure, and observable systems aligned with SRE and ITIL principles.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Lead 1–2 teams of SREs responsible for Azure-based infrastructure and client platform operations
• Partner with Product Owners and other stakeholders to align SRE capabilities with product outcomes
• Act as a people manager, responsible for hiring, performance development, 1:1s, and career growth
• Guide teams through both short-term delivery cycles (sprints) and long-term infrastructure evolution
• Foster a healthy, inclusive, and productive engineering culture
• Support your teams in resolving technical challenges, collaborating on system design and automation
• Promote security best practices, reliability goals (SLOs/SLIs), and cross-team consistency
• Partner with other engineering managers and tech leads to define and deliver shared platform capabilities
• Champion operational excellence by setting and tracking relevant SRE metrics and KPIs
• Serve as a servant leader, enabling your team’s success and coaching for growth

Your qualifications 

• You are an engineer at heart, focused on enabling others to deliver operational excellence
• You bring 2-4 years of leadership experience and build followership
• You are fluent in core SRE practices (monitoring, automation, CI/CD, incident response, IaC)
• You have experience working in or managing teams using Microsoft Azure
• You’re familiar with ITIL processes, especially incident and problem management
• You know what “good” looks like and are comfortable with incremental progress over perfection
• You share our values: Caring, Customer Success Driven, Collaboration, Curious, Courageous

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-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid 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.

Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

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.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Swati Pal([email protected]), Talent Acquisition Partner. 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.

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.

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