Overview:

This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world.  Technology is central to Man’s business strategy and we are constantly looking at better ways of doing things.  Our culture embraces change; indeed change is the norm rather than the exception in a constantly evolving organisation and industry.

We are looking for skilled engineers with a genuine passion for technology to work within the Enterprise Engineering Compliance and Regulatory team.  This group is responsible for the technology solutions implemented across Reg Ops space.

All roles will have a balance of BAU and Project work.  BAU work will involve maintaining the existing tech stack, 3rd line support and supporting the business with smaller enhancements and fixes, whilst project work will consist of longer term, more far-reaching changes that are a mixture of extending existing systems, incorporating new technologies and building out our strategic technology platform in line with our long-term vision.

This opening has the potential to be high profile role with extensive interaction with business stakeholders and senior management across Man Group, so would suit individuals who thrive in those environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Owning the end-to-end delivery process – from requirements gathering through to development, testing and coordinating deployment to production
• Participating in/owning the planning, design and delivery of longer term projects
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing amongst peers
• View stakeholder interaction as integral to successful delivery
• Continuous improvement of production components such as reducing tech debt, increasing release quality and improving resource utilization
• Encourage and drive adoption of best practices and help improve business knowledge and understanding within the team
• Support for production systems and BAU requests
• Depending on seniority – mentoring more junior members of the team

Key Skills

• Strong delivery focused approach, ensuring business value is being met
• Core experience in C# and .NET
• Query writing, schema design and performance tuning in MS SQL Server
• Ability to balance business delivery and incremental adoption of new architectural platform features
• Proponent of collaborative software engineering techniques and methods
• Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views

Useful Experience

• Any working knowledge of Kafka, Mongo

Where will I be working?

We operate a successful hybrid working model, with members of the team attending the office for three days per week, more if desired.

We always encourage a high rate of in person attendance to begin with in order to forge strong relationships with your peers and allow the best opportunity to learn from others in the team.