Senior Engineering Manager

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. 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

Why this role is important to us:

Platform Technology is a product area within SimCorp’s Product Division which delivers core framework and platform functionality that enables our business product areas to deliver efficient solutions and ensure a modern cloud enabled/aware framework. This is an opportunity for you to be part of the technology transformation to support our new developer experience, frameworks and platform.

Platform Technology consists of six teams (of 5-8 software engineers) across several geographical locations, and we are now looking for a Senior Engineering Manager for 2 teams that are based in Ukraine.

What you will be responsible for:

• Manager for 2 teams of Software Engineers within Platform Technology in the Platform development line, with responsibility for staffing and developing your teams

• Working closely with Product Management to understand and refine the customer outcomes that you and your teams are responsible for delivering

• Leading the day-to-day work for the scrum teams and have responsibility for both the short-term business deliverables in the sprint and the long-term improvements

• Collaborating with other engineering leaders on improvements within the product area, for example in product quality, security, delivery, system performance, etc.

• Providing input to the strategic direction of the product area

• As an Engineering Manager, you will be a part of a team of three Engineering Managers and report to the Director of Engineering.

What we value:

• You are an engineer at heart, with professional software development experience 

• You have 5+ years’ experience leading software engineers

• You take pride in delivering sound software solutions to clients

• You are curious about new technologies and able to pave the way for keeping our product up to date

• You have a good grasp of core engineering practices such as testing methodologies, coding, CI/CD, security, architecture, and ability to understand what your team is doing on a daily basis

• You enjoy a collaborative and open culture

• You work effectively across a big, international organisation and at different levels

Our 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 an work & life balance: flexible work hours, a hybrid workplace model. On top of that, we have IP sprints where you have 3 weeks per quarter you can spend on improving your skills as well as contributing to the company development. There is never just only one route - we practice 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 Kateryna Kozak, Talent Acquisition Partner, at [email protected]. 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.