Senior Software Engineering Manager

Management Level

D

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.  

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and 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 Senior Engineering Manager will guide, drive, and lead technical excellence within the teams to enable market-leading software engineering standards for the development and delivery of innovative products enabling iconic global recall to Equiniti.

Works under broad direction. Work is often self-initiated. Is fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or group objectives. Analyses, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets. Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities.

Core Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development and implementation of policy and strategy.
• Demonstrates leadership in operational management.
• Analyses requirements and advises on scope and options for continual operational improvement.
• Shares own knowledge and experience and encourages learning and growth.
• Advises on available standards, methods, tools, applications and processes relevant to group specialism(s) and can make appropriate choices from alternatives.
• Understands and evaluates the organisational impact of new technologies and digital services.
• Creatively applies innovative thinking and design practices in identifying solutions that will deliver value for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder.
• Clearly demonstrates impactful communication skills (oral, written and presentation) in both formal and informal settings, articulating complex ideas to broad audiences.
• Learning and professional development —  takes initiative to advance own skills and identify and manage development opportunities in area of responsibility.
• Security, privacy and ethics — proactively contributes to the implementation of appropriate working practices and culture.

 Professional Responsibilities

• Line Management responsibility for Engineering Managers and Engineers within the Engineering home.  Provide encouragement, guidance, coaching and mentoring to members of the team
• Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products
• Lead and promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
• Drive optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
• Build a strong talent pipeline through hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
• Lead and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption as required
• Responsible for articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and leading the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline
• Ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and high performing, monitoring key metrics and KPIs, identifying and addressing issues, and proactively identifying opportunities to optimise performance and enhance the customer experience
• Provide visionary leadership to multiple Agile Scrum/Squad/teams, guiding their efforts in platform development, feature enhancements, and technical excellence

Technical Skills at Expert Level

• REST/WCF Services
• Database Design, Responsive web design
• Web accessibility standards, Web security principles
• SAST and DAST tools
• Message queuing systems, Application architecture
• Awareness of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments
• WCF, REST, Microservices, API Gateway, Messaging
• Azure DevOps, Jenkins, TFSVC, GIT
• Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (Preferred)
• Identity Access (e.g. ADFS, Oauth, Okta, Identity Server, Certificates)
• ORM Tools (Entity Framework, Dapper, etc.)
• Umbraco, SharePoint
• JSON, XML, XSLT,XPath,XQuery
• LinQ, Lamba, Powershell
• HTML5, CSS3, SASS
• Bootstrap, React
• JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI
• SQL Server, T-SQL/SQL Server
• Unit Test Tools (e.g. MS Unit Test Framework, Nunit, Xunit)
• .NET Core/Framework, C#
• ASP.NET core, Web API, MVC, WebForms

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.