Engineering Lead – Public Markets Operations Technology

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year Requirements: • Strong expertise in at least one of C#/.Net, Python, Node.js and/or React • Good experience with cloud-based data platform technologies such as Snowflake, and low-code platforms such as OutSystems or Power Platform, is an advantage • Good understanding of engineering principles, patterns and best practices for designing applications • Plenty of experience in the full lifecycle of developing software from the first idea to final execution in an agile environment • Excellent understanding of testing approaches and putting testability at the heart of software design and development • A natural system-level thinker who works with developers and Solution Architects to ensure design and technology choices are appropriate • Great design skills, starting from client needs and operational processes to ensure solutions are modelled around the business domain need • Excellent written and spoken English, with well-developed communication skills to help manage relationships with stakeholders of all levels • Ability to produce and communicate effective and insightful thought leadership on technical topics • Experience managing multiple initiatives, helping teams provide transparency of their work and capacity, and fostering effective collaboration between teams and stakeholders • Experience in financial services operational functions and/or enterprise-scale regulated environments is helpful • Development experience using Azure is helpful • Familiarity with agile delivery methodologies is helpful • Knowledge of test automation techniques such as TDD, BDD, and shift-left is helpful • Ability to balance near-term delivery with longer-term platform health and strategic direction is helpful • Experience using developer productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, or similar, is helpful • Front-end development experience using TypeScript, Next.js, and React is helpful • Practical and delivery-focused, with a bias for making progress and learning quickly • Calm, resilient, and positive during high-pressure periods; able to help teams focus on what matters most • Collaborative and inclusive, actively seeks input, listens well, and ensures different perspectives are heard • Comfortable with change and ambiguity, able to adapt plans while maintaining quality and control • Accountable, fair, and consistent, sets clear expectations, demonstrates integrity, and deals fairly with everyone • A supportive technical leader who enjoys mentoring and helping others succeed • Motivated by improving engineering standards, developer experience, and operational outcomes • Shows initiative and thrives in a fast-paced and time-critical business environment • Able to explain technical decisions and their rationale to senior management, product owners, and other non-technical stakeholders • A keen technologist who follows the latest trends, technology, and engineering approaches Responsibilities: • Leading the development of applications using appropriate technologies for the problem space • Owning and influencing software delivery across design, development, testing, release, and implementation • Partnering with business stakeholders and analysts to translate outcomes, features, and user stories into working, supportable software • Working with Delivery Leads to prioritise backlogs, manage dependencies, and ensure technical debt is visible and actively addressed • Collaborating with UX and product/design colleagues to deliver intuitive, efficient user experiences • Explaining technical options and decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders, including risks, trade-offs, and rationale • Working with engineers across teams to identify and resolve cross-stream dependencies and reduce delivery friction • Writing and maintaining infrastructure as code to support CI/CD and consistent environments • Setting the tone for engineering quality through code reviews, secure engineering, testing discipline, maintainability, and operational readiness • Mentoring engineers and supporting capability growth, including constructive feedback and coaching for third-party engineering partners • Contributing to agile ceremonies with a focus on outcomes and learning • Contributing to the Enterprise Engineering community through shared standards, patterns, reference architectures, and knowledge sharing • Supporting the maintenance, support, and ongoing evolution of a complex platform, with a focus on operational stability and measurable business value • Actively managing the application estate, including end-of-life software, upgrades, and vulnerabilities Technologies: • Azure • C# • CI/CD • Claude Code • Cloud • Copilot • GitHub • Support • OutSystems • Python • React • Snowflake • TDD • TypeScript • UX UI Design • ASP.NET • NodeJS More: We are Schroders, a global investment manager helping institutions, intermediaries, and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 6,000 people on six continents and have been around for over 200 years, continuously adapting as society and technology change. Technology is a growing part of our business, with many opportunities to shape the future, and we back good ideas strongly. Our tech teams are friendly and informal, and we operate from our new HQ in the City of London with flexible working. The role sits within Public Markets Operations Technology, supporting the full client and product event lifecycle across onboarding, transaction processing, reconciliation, and reporting. You will work within the Asset Management Platform and alongside Delivery Leads and Architects to drive modernisation, continuous improvement, and shared engineering practices across the organisation. We value innovation, excellence, and inclusion, and we are committed to helping our clients and society prosper. last updated 35 week of 2026