Senior Engineering Manager (Production Financials)

Job Purpose

As Senior Engineering Manager within RWS’s Production Financials team, you will play a pivotal role in leading the development, modernisation and evolution of business-critical financial platforms that underpin our global operations. Operating in a complex enterprise environment, you will balance the delivery of new, greenfield solutions with the transformation of established legacy systems, ensuring our technology landscape becomes more scalable, resilient and maintainable. You will provide strong technical and people leadership, setting engineering direction, driving architectural improvements and embedding modern software engineering practices, automation and continuous delivery. Working closely with Product, Architecture and business stakeholders, you will translate strategic objectives into practical engineering outcomes, balancing innovation with operational stability and business continuity. With a forward-looking mindset, you will champion opportunities to leverage AI, emerging technologies and modern engineering approaches to improve productivity, quality and efficiency. Just as importantly, you will build, develop and empower high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement while delivering reliable solutions that support the organisation’s evolving financial needs.

About Product & Technology

Product & Technology plays a pivotal role in aligning the organization with its strategic objectives and enhancing shareholder value. Product & Technology is responsible for establishing unified standards and governance practices throughout the company. Additionally, we oversee the development and maintenance of core applications essential for the seamless operation of various functions across the organization. We are committed to driving and executing future roadmaps that are in line with the overall strategic direction of RWS.

With a global reach, Product & Technology provides support services to over 7500 end users worldwide. We take pride in managing the information security operation and safeguarding all our assets. Our core functions encompass Enterprise & Technical Architecture, Network & Voice, Infrastructure, Service Delivery, Service Operations, Data & Analytics, Security & Quality Compliance, Transformation, Application Development, Enterprise Platforms, With a dedicated team of over 500 staff, Product & Technology ensures a strong presence across all regions, enabling efficient and effective support to our global operations.

Job Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams responsible for the design, delivery, modernisation and ongoing evolution of business-critical financial applications and services.
• Lead the modernisation and evolution of existing financial platforms, improving reliability, scalability, performance and maintainability through targeted architectural improvements, technical debt reduction and the adoption of modern engineering practices, while ensuring business continuity and minimising operational risk.
• Drive the design and delivery of new greenfield solutions, ensuring modern, scalable and maintainable architectures that align with business objectives and long-term technology strategy.
• Provide strong technical leadership and direction, working closely with architects and engineering teams to establish secure, resilient and maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise architecture principles and standards.
• Own engineering delivery and execution, ensuring predictable outcomes through effective planning, prioritisation, resource management and continuous improvement of delivery practices.
• Champion modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, test automation, cloud-native development, DevOps and observability, improving engineering productivity, quality and speed of delivery.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Architecture, Security and other technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and enterprise integration standards.
• Ensure the reliability, performance, security and resilience of production financial systems, embedding robust engineering processes, proactive monitoring and effective incident and problem management.
• Explore and champion emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development, intelligent automation and modern engineering tools, to improve team productivity, accelerate modernisation and enhance operational efficiency.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence, accountability and continuous improvement, coaching and mentoring engineers, developing future technical leaders and fostering collaboration across teams.
• Contribute to the wider engineering strategy, influencing technology investment, architectural decisions and engineering standards to support the long-term evolution of RWS's financial technology landscape.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in an Engineering Manager or senior technical leadership role, successfully leading and developing software engineering teams delivering business-critical enterprise applications and services.
• Strong technical background in Microsoft technologies, with significant experience in C#, .NET Core / modern .NET and .NET Framework, including the development, maintenance and modernisation of enterprise-scale applications.
• Demonstrable experience modernising legacy platforms, improving reliability, scalability, performance and maintainability through architectural improvements, technology upgrades and the reduction of technical debt.
• Experience designing and delivering greenfield solutions using modern software engineering principles, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, APIs and integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and containerisation technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, with experience deploying and operating scalable, resilient applications in cloud environments.
• Proven ability to lead and manage geographically distributed and remote engineering teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, engagement and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Strong experience of engineering delivery management, including planning, prioritisation, resource allocation and balancing new feature development with platform modernisation and operational requirements.
• Experience implementing and improving modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, observability and infrastructure-as-code, to improve software quality, delivery efficiency and operational reliability.
• Ability to work effectively with Product, Architecture and business stakeholders, translating complex business requirements into pragmatic technical solutions while balancing delivery priorities, technical investment and long-term sustainability.
• Strong people leadership skills, with experience coaching and mentoring engineers, developing technical capability, managing performance and building high-performing engineering teams.
• Curiosity and interest in emerging technologies, including AI-assisted software development and intelligent automation, with the ability to identify practical opportunities to improve engineering productivity and software quality.

For all applicants in Poland and accordance with applicable pay transparency legislation, candidates will be informed of the salary range for this position prior to interview. Pay is determined without reference to previous salary history and is aligned to objective job-related criteria.

Life at RWS

Life at RWS- If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you’ll love life at RWS.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right - Partner, Pioneer, Progress - and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

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