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Manager, Digital Engineering - EY FSO
Experience: 8-12 years | Rank: Manager | Team: Financial Services Organisation, Technology Consulting, Digital Engineering
Role Summary
Hands-on Digital Engineering Manager responsible for leading software engineering delivery across EY FSO client engagements. The role combines engineering leadership, solution design, cloud-native development, Agile delivery, stakeholder management, and production readiness in regulated financial services environments.
The opportunity
EY FSO Technology Consulting is expanding its Digital Engineering capability to help financial services clients move from ideas and pilots to production-grade digital platforms, cloud-native services, and resilient engineering delivery. This is a builder-leader role for someone comfortable setting technical direction, leading engineering teams, engaging senior stakeholders, and staying close enough to the code to assure quality and delivery outcomes.
Key responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end engineering workstreams across banking, insurance, wealth, asset management, or capital markets clients, ensuring high-quality delivery against scope, plan, risk, and value outcomes.
- Design and guide implementation of scalable digital solutions using modern backend, front-end, integration, data, and cloud-native engineering patterns.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture decisions, solution design, code reviews, engineering standards, testing discipline, and delivery governance.
- Lead Agile delivery across multi-disciplinary squads, partnering with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, QA, DevOps, security, data, and infrastructure teams.
- Drive production readiness including CI/CD, observability, resilience, security, automated testing, release management, runbooks, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Mentor engineers and senior consultants, building capability in modern engineering practices and supporting career development across the team.
- Contribute to Digital Engineering propositions, reusable assets, accelerators, estimation, proposals, client workshops, and market-facing thought leadership.
- Operate credibly in regulated financial services environments, translating business, risk, compliance, and operational requirements into pragmatic technical designs.
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Required skills
| Skill Area | Technologies / Capabilities |
|---|---|
| Engineering leadership | Team leadership, technical delivery ownership, solution design, code reviews, engineering standards, mentoring, delivery governance |
| Backend engineering | Java, Spring Boot, .NET or Node.js, microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, OpenAPI/Swagger, integration patterns |
| Front-end engineering | React or Angular, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, responsive design, and component-based development |
| Cloud & DevOps | Azure and/or AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub/Bitbucket, Maven/Gradle, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code |
| Data & integration | SQL, NoSQL, data integration, streaming/event platforms such as Kafka, API management, data quality, and operational data analysis |
| Production support | Monitoring, logging, incident management, RCA, performance tuning, runbooks, ServiceNow/Jira, SRE-aligned operational readiness |
| Financial services context | Experience delivering technology change for banking, insurance, wealth, asset management, risk, finance, payments, or market infrastructure clients |
| Consulting capabilities | Stakeholder management, workshops, requirements shaping, estimation, planning, risk management, communication, and client-facing delivery |
Preferred qualifications and competencies
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Typically 8-12 years of software engineering, platform engineering, or digital delivery experience, including proven experience leading engineering teams or workstreams.
- Experience working in a client-facing professional services or project-based delivery environment.
- Cloud certifications such as Azure/AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Developer, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, security, or relevant engineering certifications are advantageous.
- Competencies: technical leadership, outcome focus, problem solving, stakeholder management, coaching, Agile delivery, commercial awareness, and strong written/verbal communication.
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What success looks like
- Client stakeholders trust the manager as a credible engineering lead who can explain trade-offs and turn requirements into delivery plans.
- Engineering squads deliver secure, tested, and observable solutions with clear documentation, release discipline, and operational readiness.
- The role contributes beyond individual engagements by developing reusable patterns, assets, and capability across EY FSO Digital Engineering.
- Team members receive active coaching and clear technical direction that improves delivery quality and career progression.
Location, travel, and ways of working
UK-based role, with hybrid working and travel depending on client engagement needs. The role supports Financial Services clients and requires adherence to EY quality, risk, security, privacy, and professional standards.
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