Senior Engineering Manager

World-Check One is a market-leading screening and risk intelligence platform used by financial institutions, fintech, corporates, and regulators to identify and manage financial crime risks (e.g., sanctions, PEPs, AML, adverse media). The development team builds scalable, high‑availability services, intuitive workflows, and compliant data pipelines that power critically important customer decisions worldwide.

As a Senior Engineering Manager
, you will lead multiple multi‑functional engineering squads (backend, frontend, Dev Ops, QA) to deliver high‑quality product increments ’ll own engineering strategy and execution for critical domains within the World‑Check One ecosystem, drive technical excellence, and grow high‑performing, autonomous teams. You’ll partner closely with Product, Delivery, Architecture, Cyber‑Security, and Service/SRE teams to achieve business outcomes, improve reliability, and ensure regulatory compliance.

This role will report to the Director of Engineering, World Check One, and be a key member of the engineering leadership team.

• Lead and develop 15–20 engineers and managers across 3–6 squads; hire, onboard, coach, and retain top talent.
• Lead the Feature Architects, ensuring alignment between architectural vision and squad delivery, and supporting their career development.
• Build a healthy engineering culture passionate about autonomy, accountability, craftsmanship, and psychological safety.
• Establish clear growth paths (IC & EM), set goals/objectives and key results, and run performance cycles with actionable feedback.

• Own outcomes for your domain—roadmap delivery, quality, SLOs, and cost efficiency—across multiple products/services.
• Drive predictable delivery using agile practices and lean flow (e.g., short iterations, WIP limits).
• Use DORA and flow metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, change failure rate, cycle time) to identify bottlenecks and improve efficiency.

• Partner with Architecture and Feature Architects to evolve platform strategy (microservices, eventing, data pipelines, APIs) and simplify complexity.
• Champion sound engineering practices: CI/CD, trunk‑based development, testing pyramid, infra as code, observability, security by design.
• Sponsor critical improvement initiatives (e.g., reliability, cost optimisation, engineering forums, tech debt reduction).

• Own non‑functional requirements: performance, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery within SLO/SLA targets.
• Embed secure SDLC practices; ensure compliance with financial crime regulations and internal controls (e.g., data governance, auditability).
• Establish robust QA and release processes: automated test coverage, canary/blue‑green deployments, feature flags, phased releases.

• Partner with Product Management and Delivery Management to develop roadmaps, define outcomes, and handle trade‑offs.
• Communicate plans, risks, and results to senior leadership; influence cross‑team priorities and investment decisions.
• Collaborate with Support & Product teams to address customer feedback and reduce operational burden.

• Scale teams responsibly: workforce planning, balancing the use of vendor resources and shaping the team backlogs appropriately.
• Optimise cloud costs and platform utilisation across prod and non‑prod environments.
• Drive data‑informed decision making with clear dashboards and engineering reviews.

• 8–12+ years in software engineering with 4+ years leading managers and multi‑squad groups in a product environment.
• Validated delivery of large‑scale, distributed systems with high availability and compliance/security requirements.
• Deep understanding of agile delivery at scale (Scrum/Kanban), continuous delivery, and modern Dev Ops/SRE practices.
• Strong communication skills; able to translate sophisticated technical topics into business outcomes.
• Experience with one or more relevant stacks (e.g. Java, Vue), cloud platforms (AWS), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain diverse engineering talent; track…