Technical Engineering Manager – Financial Services | London
£90,000 per annum + benefits + bonus | Full-time, onsite (5 days per week)
We’re recruiting a Technical Engineering Manager on behalf of a financial services client, to join their Group IT function and play a central role in turning architectural vision into production-ready, well-documented technical solutions.
This is a hands-on delivery role for someone who thrives on pace, owns their work end-to-end, and takes genuine pride in engineering things properly.
The Role
You’ll take ownership of multiple technical initiatives running concurrently, leading everything from requirements capture and high-level design through to build, testing and handover into BAU. You’ll work closely with the Head of Architecture and a small team of engineers, and you’ll be equally comfortable rolling your sleeves up to solve a complex technical problem as you are presenting a trade-off decision to a business stakeholder.
A strong emphasis is placed on documentation and traceability — you’ll be expected to produce clear, version-controlled requirements, designs and artefacts yourself, not delegate that responsibility elsewhere.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll lead technical design and delivery across cloud, workplace, networking, identity and security domains. You’ll interrogate and optimise the organisation’s existing product and licensing estate — finding and eliminating waste, consolidating overlap, and unlocking value from tools already in use before recommending anything new. You’ll own technical delivery on business-driven projects, translating outcomes into requirements and being accountable for scope, timelines and quality. And you’ll coach and develop junior and mid-level engineers, instilling good habits around documentation, requirements discipline and delivery pace.
The Environment
The organisation operates a hybrid ICT environment comprising on-premise data centre infrastructure, a Microsoft Azure footprint and Microsoft 365. This is a regulated, audited environment where change management, security compliance and thorough documentation are non-negotiable.
What We’re Looking For
- At least five years of hands-on engineering and technical delivery experience, spanning multiple infrastructure or cloud domains
- A solid track record of converting architectural direction into documented requirements, detailed designs and working production solutions
- Proven experience optimising Microsoft 365, Azure or equivalent licensing and platform estates
- Strong competence across at least four of: Azure/cloud platforms, modern workplace and Entra ID, security tooling, networking, integration/APIs, automation and DevOps
- The ability to write requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and design artefacts yourself — clearly and consistently
- Experience managing several concurrent workstreams without letting documentation quality or delivery pace slip
- Confident communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, backed by clear written records
The Person
The organisation moves quickly and values pragmatic decision-making. They’re looking for someone who is professionally serious but sociable, energetic, and comfortable leading conversations at all levels. This is not a remote-first role — you’ll be onsite five days a week, collaborating closely with colleagues, business sponsors and third-party partners.
If you’re a hands-on technical leader who gets things built properly, documented thoroughly and delivered at pace, we’d love to hear from you.
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