Hybrid Engineering Manager – Automation

at Seccl

• Job title: Engineering Manager – Automation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £110,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, React, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Engineering manager for Seccl’s Automation team improving processes with AI and automation. Leading engineering disciplines to support the platform’s growth and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Partnering closely with Product managers to define priorities, plan delivery, and align initiatives with Seccl’s commercial, regulatory, and platform goals
• Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and well-integrated across the wider platform
• Remaining hands-on where it adds value - through design reviews, architectural spikes, prototyping, or unblocking complex delivery challenges
• Working closely with Platform engineering and other domain leaders to ensure strong cross-squad collaboration and consistency
• Owning delivery health across your domain, including production readiness, incident response, and operational excellence
• Using metrics and feedback to continuously improve delivery predictability, system reliability, and team effectiveness
• Contributing to broader engineering leadership discussions, helping shape how engineering operates at Seccl as we scale
• Leading, coaching, and mentoring engineers within the Automation team, fostering a culture of high performance, psychological safety, and continuous improvement
• Building and evolving a high-impact automation squad, shaping team structure, onboarding, and ways of working to support a growing cross-company remit
• Partnering closely with Product managers, Compliance, and stakeholders across the business to identify, prioritise, and deliver automation initiatives that support Seccl’s growth and operational goals
• Providing technical leadership and architectural oversight for automation solutions, including workflow orchestration, integrations, data movement, and the responsible application of AI where appropriate
• Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring automation solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and well-integrated with the wider platform
• Remaining hands-on where it adds value, through design reviews, architectural exploration, prototyping, or unblocking complex cross-team delivery challenges
• Working closely with Platform engineering and other domain leaders to ensure automation aligns with platform standards, shared services, and long-term architectural direction
• Owning delivery health for the Automation domain, including production readiness, incident response, operational resilience, and ongoing maintainability
• Using metrics and feedback to improve delivery predictability, automation effectiveness, reliability, and team performance over time
• Contributing to the wider engineering leadership group, helping shape how engineering, automation, and AI capabilities evolve at Seccl as the organisation scales

Requirements

• You’re an experienced Engineering Manager who has led production teams and is ready to take on a broader, cross-company remit with real organisational impact
• You have a strong track record of building, coaching, and developing engineers, including shaping ways of working for teams that operate across multiple stakeholders and problem spaces
• You’re comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and can lead a squad that delivers value across the business rather than within a single product domain
• You bring strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, and can work effectively with Product, Compliance, and teams across the wider organisation
• You’re confident working across our tech stack: Node.js, React, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and JavaScript/TypeScript, and can engage credibly in architectural and technical discussions
• You have recent, practical experience working with automation and AI-assisted capabilities, and are motivated to continue building and applying these approaches responsibly in production environments
• You are confident in Prompt Engineering and verifying that the combination of Prompt + LLM produces acceptable production ready output
• You have experience with automation and workflow platforms, and are comfortable onboarding onto new tools and ecosystems. Experience with the Power Platform and its wider ecosystem is desirable, but not required
• You’re comfortable operating across a mixed technology landscape, integrating automation solutions with APIs, data platforms, and cloud services rather than treating them as isolated tools
• You enjoy staying close to the technology and can provide meaningful technical guidance and challenge, without needing to be the primary hands-on contributor
• You have experience working in regulated or operationally complex environments (such as financial services, fintech, or other compliance-heavy domains), and value strong governance, security, and resilience
• You care deeply about building automation that delivers real, sustained business value, reducing manual effort, improving consistency, and making complex processes safer and easier to run
• You’re excited by the opportunity to help shape how automation and AI are used across Seccl as the company continues to grow

Benefits

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave
• Two volunteering days per year
• Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
• Secclbrate - our recognition programme that offers a mix of flexible rewards including extra pay, additional holiday and increased learning budget
• Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years
• 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance
• Private medical insurance with AXA Health
• Enhanced Parental leave
• MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget
• £750 per person learning budget
• Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace
• Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy
• Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing