Job Description
AJ Bell is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Integration Engineering team.
The Integration Engineering team builds and evolves strategic capabilities that enable software engineering teams across AJ Bell to deliver reliable, scalable and observable solutions. The team has successfully established our ETL data streaming platform and is taking on a new capability to evolve critical business processes.
You will join a team that is established, skilled and highly collaborative. Your focus is to consistently increase team performance and pace of delivery. Your challenge is to increase technical depth, develop future technical leaders and expand our influence across Technology Services, working closely with product and operational teams to improve pace and quality.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will be responsible for coaching and developing engineers, but you'll also be contributing to technical discussions, supporting architectural decision-making and helping to shape how our engineering capabilities evolve.
What does the job involve?
- Owning a strategic engineering capability that influences how engineering is done across AJ Bell.
- Building a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
- Driving adoption and evolution of the ETL Streaming platform.
- Establishing a new capability to evolve critical business processes.
- Encouraging innovation and constant collaboration.
- Promoting AI-assisted software engineering to increase pace and quality.
- Working with diverse software engineering and technology teams.
- Balancing product, operational, regulatory and strategic priorities.
Leadership skills
- Experience leading software engineering teams.
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
- Proven ability to develop engineers into technical leaders.
- Experience building high-performing cultures.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- The right balance of management and technology focus.
Technical skills
Deep background in software engineering.
- Experience in software and system integration
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture.
- Experience in operating critical production services.
- Knowledge of cloud-native architecture.
- Confident in technical design and discussion.
- Experience owning and evolving engineering platforms used by multiple development teams.
Desirable skills
- AWS serverless technologies.
- Event streaming and messaging technologies.
- Enterprise integration patterns.
- Platform engineering.
- Modernisation programmes.
- Financial services industry experience.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot.
About AJ Bell
At AJ Bell, we believe investing should feel good. Whether you're looking for an ISA, pension or dealing account, whether you want to invest with the help of a financial adviser or do it yourself, we have easy-to-use solutions to suit people from all walks of life.
We're one of the UK's fastest-growing investment platform businesses, trusted by everyone from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.
Today, over 762,000 customers trust us to manage more than £121.5 billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we're helping more people take control of their financial futures.
We're proud to be recognised as one of the UK's Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years, and a Great Place to Work® in 2025 and 2026, a reflection of our supportive and collaborative culture.
What we offer
- 27 days holiday, increasing with service, plus buy/sell scheme and bank holidays
- 8% pension with matched contributions
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Share schemes, including free shares and BAYE
- Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
- Free onsite gym
- Enhanced family leave, subject to qualifying criteria
- Travel and bike loan schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme
Life at AJ Bell
- Regular social events including summer and Christmas parties
- Learning and development opportunities tailored to you
- Casual dress code
- Friendly, supportive team environment
Our ways of working
At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you'll spend a minimum of 50% of working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be spent full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
Inclusion & diversity
We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected, supported and able to be themselves at work.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience and potential.
Agency information
This vacancy is being managed exclusively by our in-house Recruitment team. We are not partnering with recruitment agencies on this opportunity and will only accept applications submitted directly by candidates.
