Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Management Level

E

Equiniti provides comprehensive solutions to support organizations throughout their corporate lifecycle, including managing shareholder engagement, maintaining stock registers, facilitating ownership transfers, enabling shareholder meetings, paying dividends, supporting IPOs, and administering employee equity plans. We are dedicated to revolutionizing shareholder services by developing digital solutions that facilitate dematerialization for issuers and shareholders. 

EQ is a fintech that connects the future of capital, communications, and governance, building trust and confidence in every market we serve. Our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The Technical Engineering Manager will lead technical excellence across teams, enabling market‑leading software standards for innovative product delivery and global recall at Equiniti. Work pattern aligns with UK hours.

Core Responsibilities (SFIA Level 5)

• Autonomy: Works under broad direction, self‑initiated, accountable for objectives, milestones, and task assignment.

• Influence: Shapes decisions impacting deadlines, budgets, and resources. Builds strong business relationships and fosters collaboration across stakeholders.

• Complexity: Executes policies aligned to strategy, resolves complex issues, and applies principles across varied contexts.

• Business Skills: Leads operational management, advises on improvement, evaluates risk, shares knowledge, and applies innovative thinking. Communicates effectively across audiences.

• Knowledge: Familiar with industry bodies of knowledge, applies standards, and develops breadth across the business.

Professional Responsibilities

• Line management of engineers, providing guidance, coaching, and mentoring.

• Drive adoption of Agile and SDLC practices.

• Maintain processes, standards, and best practices for high‑quality delivery.

• Promote engineering excellence via analysis tools, peer reviews, and design improvements.

• Optimize lifecycle through knowledge management and continuous learning.

• Advocate reduction of technical debt with Product teams.

• Collaborate with central EQ functions (risk, compliance, InfoSec).

• Mentor engineers, instill ownership, and build a high‑performance culture.

• Strengthen talent pipeline through hiring, succession planning, and reviews.

• Evaluate emerging technologies for differentiation and adoption.

• Articulate technical roadmap, architecture documentation, and validate platforms.

• Contribute code as an expert developer.

Technical Responsibilities (SFIA Level 6 – Programming/Software Development)

• Develop organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software construction/refactoring.

• Lead construction activities for strategic, large, complex projects.

• Adapt or create new methods and drive adherence to standards.

Professional Skills & Qualities

• Agile methodologies (Scrum), efficiency improvement, configuration management, release readiness, documentation, lifecycle management, problem solving.

• Emotional intelligence, motivation, collaboration, active listening, continuous learning, communication, creative thinking, resilience, ownership, critical thinking, time management, decision‑making, accountability, leadership.

Technical Skills (Expert Level)

• Full stack development, REST/WCF services, database design, responsive web design.

• Microservices, API Gateway, messaging, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, financial services experience.

• Dependency injection, ORM frameworks, unit/integration testing, modern patterns, web accessibility/security, CI/CD, deployments.

• Application architecture, source control, issue resolution, feedback capture.

• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), identity access (ADFS, OAuth, Okta), ORM tools, SharePoint.

• JSON, XML, XSLT, XPath, LINQ, Lambda, PowerShell.

• HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL Server, T‑SQL.

• Unit test tools (NUnit, Xunit, MSTest), .NET Core/Framework, C#, ASP.NET Core/Web API/MVC/WebForms.

• Visual Studio, Redgate tools.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

Experience Level

Mid Level