About The Role

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking an Engineering Manager to work for our client within the finance sector. This is initially a 3 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in London.

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams delivering critical banking and lending technology programmes. This is a technical leadership role requiring an individual who can provide strategic engineering direction whilst remaining hands-on enough to pair programme, review solutions, mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence. The successful candidate will oversee approximately 20 engineers across 3-4 feature teams and play a key role in modernising platforms, improving engineering standards and delivering complex technology initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Lead and manage multiple cross-functional engineering teams.
Provide technical leadership across Java, React/React Native and cloud-based solutions.
Drive engineering best practice, quality standards and governance.
Coach, mentor and develop engineers and engineering leads.
Pair programme with engineers and provide hands-on technical guidance where required.
Own technology delivery across multiple workstreams.
Lead technical planning, dependency management and risk mitigation activities.
Define and implement test strategies and engineering health initiatives.
Collaborate with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
Drive DevOps adoption, CI/CD maturity and secure coding practices.
Support large-scale platform migration and transformation programmes.
Ensure delivery aligns with engineering standards and strategic objectives.

About You

5+ years' Engineering Management experience.
5+ years' Technical Leadership experience.
Experience leading multiple feature teams (circa 20 engineers).
Strong engineering background with Java, Spring Boot and React/React Native environments.
Engineering governance and delivery management experience.
Test strategy and quality engineering expertise.
Risk, dependency and stakeholder management.
Coaching and mentoring of engineering teams.
DevOps, CI/CD and modern software delivery practices.
Secure coding and engineering standards expertise.
Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Previous Banking or Financial Services experience.

Desirable:

Lending domain experience.
AWS cloud engineering knowledge.
Event-driven architecture.
Large-scale migration and legacy decommissioning programmes.
SonarQube and Veracode.
Jira and Confluence.
Vendor and partner management.
Strategic planning and organisational leadership experience.

About Us

FDM is an award-winning global leader in tech and business talent solutions, backed by more than 35 years of industry experience. We have centres across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer, currently listed on the FTSE4Good Index and as a 2026 Financial Times UK ‘Best Employer’.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
Annual leave and work-place pension

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