SimCorp Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

SimCorp

Negotiable

Remote3-5 Yrs ExpMasterFull-time

Remote Details

Open Country：Philippines

Language Requirements：English

This remote job is open to candidates in specific countries. Please confirm if you want to continue despite potential location restrictions

Job Description

Description

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

Platform leadership, SaaS acceleration, and Ecosystem scaling represent the three primary growth levers in SimCorp's 2025 strategy, while the Platforms as a Service Operations department enhances client services by providing a dependable, anticipated, and cost-efficient operations service. As a platform and technology operations team, we also aspire to streamline standard processes to assist in the growth and efficiency of SimCorp’s SaaS business. The advancement of client services is driven by our team members, who are essential for operational success. Managers are leading the teams of people in close collaboration with Product Owners and the rest of the PaaS leadership team. This position resides with Onboarding delivery engine, where the onboarding of new clients is being planned and executed.

What You Will Be Responsible For

You will be a part of leadership team where you collaboratively lead together with other Engineering Managers, Product Owners, and PaaS Senior Leadership

You are a manager of 1-2 teams of Site Reliability Engineers within SaaS Operations, with responsibility of hiring, growing, and upskilling your team through 1:1s, feedback, mentoring, coaching, and goal setting.
You are tasked with creating a positive working atmosphere for your team
Collaborate with other engineering leaders and operational delivery team, product owners and scrum masters to drive cross-area initiatives to ensure operational excellence of your teams
Develop and carry out learning and education paths for our people
You are responsible for maintaining team engagement through evaluation of findings and outcomes in our employee surveys, implementing actions and measuring results
Responsible for managing the People and Culture processes related to people management, such as Real Talks, Workday processes, performance & merit evaluations etc
You are responsible for monitoring team utilization and working closely with Product Owners to ensure sufficient capacity for upcoming deliveries
You are responsible for engineering expertise within your area of responsibility – with support from PaaS stakeholders
You identify and articulate key metrics to gain a clear perspective on your team's performance and to drive enhancement
Responsible for effective adoption of operational processes across teams
Work closely with the Scrum Master to mature the team's adoption of Agile Scrum and DevOps methodologies to promote a well-functioning, efficient team
Responsible for SRE team input to, and participation in, security and compliance processes such as annual SOC2 auditing, Business Continuity testing and Disaster Recovery drills, and ensuring team adherence to compliance surrounding these processes.
Responsible for driving your teams contribution to knowledge sharing initiatives within PaaS and across Client Services
Partner with product teams to onboard new application services efficiently
Communicate effectively with stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment on priorities
Act as an advocate for operational priorities in strategic planning discussions

What We Value

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

You possess a significant drive; this includes the drive to advance and to propel initiatives forward

You are inquisitive, and you have an experimental nature with a desire to explore, pursue new ideas, and adapt
You are an engineer at heart, motivated to improve things – whether that is people, process, or technology
Some years of managerial experience with a capacity to inspire and lead teams
You have a good grasp or Engineering / FinTech Background to be able to understand what your team is doing on a daily basis as well as reason with their decisions
You have relevant knowledge of the site reliability engineering practice
Deep empathy and a service-oriented mindset towards your employees
A focus on promoting a teamwork-oriented and open culture
Effective communication and collaboration within a large, international organization
Previous experience working in an agile team and an understanding of agile methodologies
The ability to work in, and manage, global virtual teams
Have extensive multi cultural awareness and appreciation for multi cultural teams
Have good written and verbal reasoning skills

Other requirements:

APAC shift hours
Hybrid working arrangement (2x a week)

Benefits:

SimCorp offers several benefits that might play a significant factor in considering whether to accept a job offer. Since we operate in 30+ offices worldwide, the benefits package may vary from country to country.

Take advantage of this section and indicate the most-valued benefits for candidates, considering training and certification, as well as benefits that can improve a candidate's work-life balance, such as flexible hours, vacation time, work-from-home options, etc. Please note that this may not be possible for multiple location postings due to the difference in benefits.

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 everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

SimCorp proudly announces the official certification of its Manila Delivery Center as a Great Place To Work, a remarkable achievement within just two and a half years of operations. This certification, which was acquired in November 2023, underscores SimCorp's effort to cultivating a workplace that is not only inclusive and collaborative but also committed to the personal and professional growth of its employees
We are also honored to have been voted as a WealthTech100 company for three consecutive years. The new WealthTech100 list aims to highlight tech innovation leaders in the investment management industry.**