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We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.\nWe know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!\nAbout the role\nAbout the roleHL is beginning a multi-year transformation of its back- and middle-office technology. This will require new backend capabilities that simplify complex operational processes, connect customer-facing journeys to core platforms, and provide secure, reliable access to the data and services needed across the organisation. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this core capability and help turn that ambition into well-engineered, reusable product.\nThis is a hands-on engineering leadership role with a long-term mandate: to help establish the services, APIs, events and integration patterns on which HL’s future back- and middle-office estate will depend. You will remain close to architecture, code and delivery while building a strong engineering team capable of modernising legacy workflows incrementally, safely and at scale.\nWorking across Product, Architecture, Operations, Data Platform and other engineering teams, you will shape capabilities that can be reused across transformation journeys rather than solving each need in isolation. \nWhat you’ll be doing\nHands-on engineering and technical direction\nLead by example through meaningful contribution to backend services, APIs, integration components, infrastructure and technical spikes.\nOwn the technical direction of the squad, ensuring immediate delivery choices contribute to a coherent, scalable backend estate for the transformation ahead.\nDesign and deliver synchronous, asynchronous and event-driven integrations using cloud-native patterns.\nSet clear standards for API-first and contract-driven design, versioning, backward compatibility, automated testing, observability and failure recovery.\nReview code and designs, remove complex technical blockers and ensure solutions are production-ready.\nReduce legacy complexity and technical debt through incremental modernisation and well-governed reuse.\nBuilding HL’s future back- and middle-office capabilities\nHelp define and deliver the multi-year engineering roadmap for the backend capabilities required by HL’s back- and middle-office transformation.\nBuild reusable domain services, APIs, events and data flows that connect digital journeys, operational processes and core enterprise platforms.\nTranslate target operating models and business processes into clear service boundaries, contracts and dependable integration capabilities.\nCreate strategic building blocks that can be adopted across multiple transformation journeys, reducing duplication and accelerating future delivery.\nLead the incremental transition from legacy services and point-to-point integrations through safe migration, reconciliation, replay, 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including technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, IAM, CloudWatch and VPC networking.\nExperience delivering infrastructure as code with Terraform and automated delivery through CI/CD pipelines.\nStrong understanding of testing strategies, observability, resilience, security and production support.\nExperience modernising legacy systems or delivering complex transformation programmes with multiple dependencies.\nEvidence of coaching engineers, improving team effectiveness and influencing technical decisions beyond a single squad.\nDesirable experience\nExperience delivering middle-office, financial-services or other regulated operational platforms.\nKnowledge of data pipelines, data quality, reconciliation and integration with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake.\nExperience with domain-driven design, schema governance, contract testing and service ownership models.\nUnderstanding of migration patterns, parallel running and controlled decommissioning of legacy services.\nHow you work\nYou are comfortable moving between strategy, architecture, code, delivery and people leadership.\nYou make clear decisions using evidence and explain trade-offs without unnecessary complexity.\nYou take ownership of outcomes and create the conditions for others to succeed.\nYou value collaboration, constructive challenge and learning from production.\nYou focus on incremental value while keeping long-term engineering quality in view.\nWhat success looks like over the next few years\nHL has a growing set of secure, scalable and reusable backend capabilities supporting back- and middle-office transformation journeys.\nTransformation teams can adopt consistent APIs, events and integration patterns rather than creating isolated point solutions.\nLegacy dependencies and manual operational processes are progressively replaced through controlled, low-risk modernisation.\nThe Integrations squad has clear technical direction, strong service ownership and the 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For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.\nTo achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. 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