Engineering Manager (Identity)

Engineering Manager (Identity Team)

London Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home

As an Engineering Manager for the Identity Platform, you will lead the team responsible for building high-throughput, mission-critical authentication and authorisation controls. You will architect and scale platform services that define and govern permissions across human, service, and bot identities, ensuring a secure, seamless banking-and-payments experience across Ebury.

Why This Role is Different

• Own Client Outcomes: Take real client problems end-to-end, owning experience, APIs, data, and iteration with full trust and autonomy.
• Player-Coach Early, Leader Always: Stay close to code early on (pairing, reviewing, shipping) and transition leverage into building people and systems as the team grows.
• Platform-First Thinking: Build scalable, generalisable platforms rather than bespoke one-offs. Value retiring technical debt and flags as much as shipping features.
• AI-Native Culture: Fluent in AI tools as force multipliers, guiding the team on effective adoption and designing AI into the product.

Key Responsibilities

• Grow the Team: Coach engineers through actionable feedback, clear growth paths, and performance management.
• Delivery Ownership: Translate ambiguous business outcomes into clear roadmaps. Sequence work, manage risk, and deliver reliably at a sustainable pace.
• Technical Leadership: Guide architecture and design reviews for high-scale, event-driven transactional systems on AWS and BigQuery.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner closely with Product, Design and Business Domains to shape customer solutions and influence strategic trade-offs.
• Operational Health: Ensure production-grade stability, humane on-call loads, testing standards, CI/CD, and strong observability.
• Responsible AI Adoption: Integrate AI tools into development workflows safely and effectively while maintaining complete ownership of shipped code.

What We're Looking For

• Engineering Leadership: Proven experience managing and developing software engineering teams with a track record of mentorship and high delivery standards.
• Technical Depth: Solid CS foundation with hands-on credibility building/operating distributed systems at scale (AWS, event-driven architecture, APIs).
• Hiring Instincts: Ability to define an interview bar, run rigorous hiring processes, and close exceptional talent from scratch.
• AI Fluency: Hands-on usage of AI coding tools and strong opinions on how teams best leverage AI for productivity and product capabilities.
• Product & Quality Mindset: Focus on client value, pragmatic scoping, and high discipline around money-movement systems (idempotency, reconciliation).
• Communication: Fluency in English with exceptional ability to articulate complex technical ideas and align cross-functional teams.
• Identity and User Management: Have worked on scalable platforms that define and operate authentication and fine grained authorisation functions.
• Nice to Have: Fintech/payments/regulated domain experience, experience on early founding hub teams, or web & mobile channel exposure.

What We Offer

• Competitive Package: Strong base salary, performance-based bonus, and comprehensive benefits tailored to a senior leadership role.
• Career Progression: Clear leadership paths, senior mentorship, and room to grow across technical and organisational domains.
• Challenging Problems: The opportunity to work on complex, intellectually stimulating projects that have a significant and measurable business impact.
• Premium Equipment: High-end MacBook Pro and the required tools.
• Collaborative Culture: An inclusive, high-performing environment rewarding technical excellence, decision-making, and constructive challenge.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or in a similar leadership role, leading and supporting engineers.
• Experience working in fintech or within the financial services industry.
• Experience working in a multi-channel, multi-product driven environment.
• Deep understanding of software development methodologies and best practices.
• Experience with agile development processes.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Passion for technology and innovation.

Desirable Attributes

• Experience building enterprise-level Identity, Access Management (IAM) platforms, Fine-Grained Access Control (FGAC) systems and defining authorisation policies.
• Knowledge of advanced authentication techniques, such as device binding/attestation, and experience in consolidating fragmented user identities into a unified identity model.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Contributions to open-source projects or a personal portfolio demonstrating technical curiosity and skill.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and standardising communication patterns in a centralised architecture.

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