Head of Engineering

Overview

Head of Engineering, Manchester, UK. Monex is a leading global financial solutions provider, offering a complete set of tools to support business growth and strategic financial operations. We specialise in FX risk management and international payments, helping corporate and institutional clients design tailored FX solutions to navigate currency volatility with confidence. Our team implements currency strategies and provides dedicated support for payment needs. Monex facilitates FX turnover, assets, and transactions across multiple regions. The role is part of the technology leadership, responsible for shaping and delivering the overall technology strategy for Monex International.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver all aspects of the software engineering strategy.
• Build and lead a world-class product engineering organisation that ships secure, reliable products delivering measurable business value.
• Establish a culture of craftsmanship and automation, driving high deployment frequency, low change failure rate, short lead time, and fast MTTR while meeting regulatory obligations and ensuring operational resilience.
• Provide strategic direction for platforms to deliver corporate payments, API modernization, cloud, and real-time payment initiatives.
• Partner with business and delivery teams to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions.
• Act as a trusted technology advisor to clients and internal leadership.
• Hire, develop, mentor and retain top talent and work with strategic development partners to build a high-performance global team.
• Partner with Product to align delivery roadmap with strategy and OKRs, ensuring predictable delivery and outcomes.
• Drive adoption of modern architectures (microservices, event-driven systems) and cloud-native technologies.
• Institutionalise modern engineering practices and drive metrics-led improvement using DORA and cost-to-serve.
• Own CI/CD strategy (pipeline standardisation, policy as code, quality gates, security scanning) and implement test automation at all levels.
• Embed DevSecOps and SRE practices across the Engineering team: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident management, post-mortems, capacity and resiliency engineering.
• Ensure compliance with data and IT security and country-specific regulations.
• Provide stakeholder communications on strategy and deliveries to ExCo level.
• Embed security-by-design principles into all engineering processes and ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks such as MiFID II, PSD2, and GDPR.
• Collaborate with Information Security and Risk teams to maintain robust controls and audit readiness.
• Align engineering processes and technology stacks across merged entities to achieve operational efficiency and scalability.

Qualifications

• 8 – 15 years in product engineering roles, at least 5 years in financial services; >3 years as the lead engineering manager on a modern, custom financial services critical product with end-to-end software engineering leadership (including cloud, platform engineering, APIs).
• Previous experience in a regulated investment firm or strong equivalent knowledge within a relevant Financial Services firm.
• Strong knowledge of the regulatory environment in which an FX firm operates.
• Clear understanding of the purpose of risk management and compliance within a regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of FX and derivatives.

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