Manager, Engineering

Engineering Manager

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

The Engineering Manager Data Management is accountable for leading teams responsible for delivering platform changes upgrades and continuous improvements across enterprise data management products and customer environments. This role ensures changes are delivered safely predictably and in compliance while scaling engineering excellence through strong people leadership governance and adoption of data-driven and AI-enabled practices.

The Engineering Manager acts as a bridge between technical execution change governance and customer impact ensuring long-term platform stability and evolution.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Change Upgrade & Release Ownership

• Own end-to-end delivery of data management changes upgrades and major releases across environments.

• Ensure all changes follow approved change management validation and rollback frameworks.

• Accountable for release readiness production stability and post-release outcomes.

Data Platform & Engineering Oversight

• Provide technical leadership across data ingestion transformation validation reconciliation and storage layers.

• Ensure data quality integrity and consistency are preserved during upgrades and migrations.

• Guide architectural decisions to balance scalability performance and operational stability.

Risk Compliance & Governance

• Identify and mitigate technical operational and data risks associated with change and upgrades.

• Ensure compliance with data governance audit and regulatory expectations including segregation of environments.

• Maintain strong documentation traceability and audit readiness for all changes.

People Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead and develop engineering QA and release/change professionals.

• Drive performance management career growth mentoring and succession planning.

• Foster a culture of accountability quality continuous improvement and psychological safety.

Stakeholder & Customer Alignment

• Partner with product operations compliance and customer-facing teams to align priorities.

• Communicate change scope risks timelines and outcomes clearly to stakeholders.

• Support escalations with data-driven analysis corrective actions and preventive improvements.

Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Continuously improve change release and validation processes to reduce defects and recovery time.

• Promote standardization automation and repeatability in upgrade execution.

• Track delivery and operational metrics to improve predictability and quality.

Required Experience & Capabilities

• Proven experience managing engineering teams in complex data-centric environments.

• Strong understanding of data platforms releases and change governance.

• Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth people leadership and stakeholder management.

• Experience applying automation and AI-assisted practices in engineering or operations is a strong advantage.

WHAT WE VALUE

• 1415 years of overall software engineering experience with significant time /C# ecosystems.

• 5 years leading engineers (direct people leadership) owning delivery and engineering standards.

• Proven ability to work effectively in large distributed international organizations and across levels.

Technical Experience

.NET / C# Core Expertise

Strong C# fundamentals and deep experience with Framework including emphasis on:

• WPF WCF WWF

• Strong understanding of async programming concurrency and performance considerations

Modern Services & Cloud-native

Strong experience with Web Core and modern architecture patterns:

• Microservices

• Docker / container-based applications

Azure DevOps Pipelines

• Hands-on experience designing and operating Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines including quality gates and release orchestration.

Code Reviews & Engineering Standards

• Demonstrated ability to drive high-quality efficient code reviews enforce standards and mentor engineers.

Code Optimization / Performance Engineering

• Proven track record in profiling and code optimization strategies

Multi-threaded / Performance-intensive Systems

• Experience building and operating multi-threaded performance intensive applications with strong understanding of concurrency patterns and pitfalls.

Source Control & Continuous Build

• Strong experience with Git/TFS branching PR workflows and continuous builds integrated into CI/CD.

AI Elements (Required Mindset Practical Application)

• To align with SimCorps emphasis on engineering excellence and scalable delivery we expect the Engineering Manager to lead responsible adoption of AI-assisted practices in day-to-day engineering

AI-assisted Engineering Productivity (Developer Experience)

• Establish team practices for AI-assisted coding (e.g. suggestions refactoring support unit-test generation assistance) with clear review accountability and secure usage patterns.

• Build definition of done expectations for AI-assisted output (tests security checks performance impact review documentation).

AI for Quality Risk & Reliability:

Use AI-assisted approaches to improve:

• test prioritization and regression optimization

• anomaly detection in logs/telemetry

• root-cause analysis acceleration during incidents

• knowledge search across engineering artifacts (runbooks RCA history design notes)

Domain Experience (Strong Plus):

• Experience in Capital Markets is a plus preferably with Buy-Side firms (asset managers pension funds investment managers) and understanding of data workflows typical in investment operations and analytics.

BENEFITS

• Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose you can work remotely the other days. Of course you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.

• Growth and innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you your team or the application.

• Self-Direction - High degree of self-organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan organize and design their work.

• Inclusive and diverse company culture

• Work-life balance We believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of ourselves both in private life and as colleagues in the workplace

• Empowerment We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will be involved in shaping our work processes

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 everyones 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 worlds leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3000 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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