Software Engineering Manager - Investments

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Software Engineering Manager - Investments based in the United States. This is a strategic engineering leadership role overseeing one or more agile teams delivering technology for global investment operations. You will combine people leadership, technical depth, delivery accountability, and financial-services expertise to drive business-critical outcomes. The role spans investment applications, APIs, integrations, data platforms, and modern cloud capabilities across front-, middle-, and back-office functions. You will partner closely with Investments, Investment Operations, Accounting, Product, Architecture, Security, Risk, and Data teams. A key focus will be modernizing technology while maintaining strong reliability, security, auditability, and regulatory controls. You will also shape engineering culture, develop talent, manage resources, and introduce responsible innovation, including AI-enabled engineering practices. This is an opportunity to influence technology strategy while delivering resilient solutions in a complex, globally connected financial environment. Accountabilities - Lead, coach, and develop software engineering teams across hiring, performance management, career development, succession planning, and workforce strategy. - Own predictable delivery and operational performance, balancing product enhancements, modernization, regulatory commitments, technical debt, reliability, and production support. - Build strong partnerships with investment and accounting leaders, developing a practical understanding of portfolio management, trading, settlement, valuations, risk, cash, reconciliation, and financial reporting.

- Partner with Product Management and Product Owners to shape roadmaps, define outcomes, manage dependencies, allocate capacity, and translate business priorities into actionable engineering work. - Guide technical direction in partnership with architecture, data, cloud, and security teams across applications, APIs, integrations, infrastructure, and data platforms. - Establish engineering standards covering secure development, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, documentation, release management, and maintainability. - Oversee cloud-native applications, services, data pipelines, APIs, event-driven integrations, and analytical data capabilities. - Manage integrations with investment platforms, accounting systems, custodians, market-data providers, and other external technology partners while supporting build-versus-buy decisions and vendor performance. - Ensure production services meet expectations for availability, resilience, recoverability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and disaster recovery. - Embed security, privacy, access controls, data lineage, auditability, segregation of duties, and regulatory requirements into engineering delivery. - Manage budgets, vendor spend, staffing, capacity, hiring, and forecasts while aligning resources with the highest-value business priorities. - Evaluate emerging technologies, including generative AI and agentic engineering tools, and introduce them responsibly to improve productivity, quality, and investment workflows. - Communicate delivery progress, operational health, risks, dependencies, investment needs, and strategic decisions effectively to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership. Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. - 9+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, platform engineering, data engineering, or a related technology field.