Engineering Manager

Job Description

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation. Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues. Our culture is incredibly important to us. Were proud of our heritage, our values and our people. In an ever-changing world, we need to be ready to adapt and meet the changing needs of our customers and people. To meet these needs, Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions. As part of this, we have ambitious plansto modernise our IT estate, looking to leverage the Cloud and SaaS/PaaS, to change how we fundamentally deliver solutions to support our customer. Job SummaryReporting to the Head of Product Engineering, the Finance Engineering Manager will lead a stream aligned product team, who look after our Finance application stack. Working with Finance and the Data product engineering team, you will act as a servant leader for the product team, be self-organised, working autonomously & deeply data driven. You will be focused on continuous learning and improvement, coaching your team tohigh performance. You will need to be motivated, collaborative, thoroughly experienced in leading adoption of agile and DevSecOps ways of working. Youll be a critical conduit for prioritisation of backlogs and optimising the team for flow of change. Workingat every stage of a product lifecycle development, you will put our customers at the centre of the teams thinking and decisions. Responsibilities

• To lead, coach and inspire the Finance product engineering team, improving ways of working including driving agile adoption and DevSecOps, optimising for flow of change
• Foster collaboration within the team, work cross-functionally with peer engineering managers, Product Owners and operational colleagues to achieve high-performance outcomes, deliver end-to-end solutions for customers
• Enable a culture of continuous improvement, engineering excellence, and innovation
• Provide capabilities that ensure Finance meet operational regulatory compliance
• Operation and maintenance of the financial systems, ensuring their stability, scalability and performance, achieving agreed service levels
• Ensure compliance with security policies and standards and manage operational risks across the Finance product engineering team
• Aid in the definition of the technology runway & deliver modernisation within the IT estate
• Agree integration points into the wider Canada Life Group
• Use data to inform decision making and targeted improvements
• Develop and execute effective strategies for people development, talent and succession planning
• Manage the team budget, with a focus on reducing the cost of ownership
• Effective management of third-party suppliers to deliver great service and value for money
• Define and track departmental and team-level OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), driving engineering team accountability and ensure alignment with Canada Life strategic goals

Knowledge, skills and Experience Technical

• Demonstrable understanding of finance & core policy administration systems and the associated regulatory principles, within financial services or similar sectors
• Experience of LakeHouse, Microsoft automation technologies, AI and ML over a LakeHouse platform, compute on demand-based designs
• Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and tools including Python, SQL, R and tools like Data Bricks, Azure Data Factory, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and proprietary modelling technologies like Prophet
• Experience in managing the operation and change management of critical finance systems, ensuring stability, performance and protecting service
• In-depth working knowledge of various Engineering techniques, across all aspects of engineering including Cloud, Application, Data, DevSecOps, Automation (Deployment &
• Testing), Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
• Shift left on security
• Use of monitoring and alerting tools

Non-technical

• A passionate leader and coach, who cares about creating a positive learning environment for your team, encouraging curiosity and development
• Outcome focused with familiarity using OKRs
• Foster collaborative cross-functional relationships and work effectively to deliver end to end outcomes for our customers
• Have an ability to drive consensus through discussion, presentation of facts and negotiation
• Strong senior stakeholder management skills, able to understand their needs and positively influence decisions
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts in a straightforward way
• Ability to prioritise and plan complex work and respond effectively to a changing environment
• Strong critical thinker with a collaborative problem-solving aptitude

QualificationsEducated to degree level or 3+ years equivalent experience Benefits of working at Canada LifeWe believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package thats regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, youll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pensionand bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development. How we work at Canada LifeOur culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationshipswe have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward. We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. Thats why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop. Diversity and inclu