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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsReactMongoDBAWSLambdaServerless FrameworkJavaScriptTypeScriptautomationAI-assisted capabilities

Soft Skills

communicationstakeholder managementcoachingstrategic thinkinghands-on executionteam developmentcross-team collaborationproblem-solvingleadershippsychological safety