Senior Engineering Manager

at  Simcorp

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 for us
At SimCorp, we assist numerous major global financial institutions by streamlining their investments, accounting, and operational processes. Connectivity API is a product area within SimCorp’s Product Division which delivers integration capabilities and communication frameworks (REST API, messaging, eventing, infrastructure and hosting) to enable integration scenarios and data flows for our applications suite. This is an opportunity for you to be part of the technology area to support our integration, and service framework development to enable Open Platform strategy as well as modernize connectivity tech stack.

What you will be responsible for

• Lead two teams of 6-8 software engineers each
• Build a stronger team by investing in the growth of current members and recruiting fresh talent
• Establish, maintain and seek for continuous improvement in engineering practices
• Work closely with Product Management to ensure balance of team health, planned delivery, production quality, and improvement/modernization
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross-functional units
• Facilitate the day-to-day work for the scrum teams, being responsible for the team performance and business deliverables
• Support initiatives to share knowledge across teams through demos, meetups, and working groups
• Providing input to the strategic direction of the product area

As an Engineering Manager, you will be a part of Engineering Managers community, reporting to Director of Engineering
Our Tech-stack & tooling: C# (.Net8, .Net Framework 4.7), Asp.Net 8 (REST & OData), gRPC, Azure (AD, SB), Kafka, ELK, GitHub, and more
What we value



• 3+ years’ experience in managing engineering teams (as, i.e. team lead or development manager)
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, preferably in distributed systems and platform engineering
• Previous experience with growing teams and delivering complex projects
• Expert in processes: Agile, SDLC, Release Management
• Great people manager: you know how to appreciate achievements, motivate, coach, give feedback, retain, and create culture people to share and follow
• Advanced communication skills, both written and verbal
• You work effectively across a big, international organization 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 Yuliia Kostiuk, Talent Acquisition Partner, at Yuliia.Kostiuk@simcorp.com. 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

• Lead two teams of 6-8 software engineers each
• Build a stronger team by investing in the growth of current members and recruiting fresh talent
• Establish, maintain and seek for continuous improvement in engineering practices
• Work closely with Product Management to ensure balance of team health, planned delivery, production quality, and improvement/modernization
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross-functional units
• Facilitate the day-to-day work for the scrum teams, being responsible for the team performance and business deliverables
• Support initiatives to share knowledge across teams through demos, meetups, and working groups
• Providing input to the strategic direction of the product are