Software Engineering Manager

Location: West of England

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About the role# About the role     HL 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.
This 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.
Working 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.

What you’ll be doing

Hands-on engineering and technical direction
* Lead by example through meaningful contribution to backend services, APIs, integration components, infrastructure and technical spikes.
* Own the technical direction of the squad, ensuring immediate delivery choices contribute to a coherent, scalable backend estate for the transformation ahead.
* Design and deliver synchronous, asynchronous and event-driven integrations using cloud-native patterns.
* Set clear standards for API-first and contract-driven design, versioning, backward compatibility, automated testing, observability and failure recovery.
* Review code and designs, remove complex technical blockers and ensure solutions are production-ready.
* Reduce legacy complexity and technical debt through incremental modernisation and well-governed reuse.

Building HL’s future back- and middle-office capabilities
* Help define and deliver the multi-year engineering roadmap for the backend capabilities required by HL’s back- and middle-office transformation.
* Build reusable domain services, APIs, events and data flows that connect digital journeys, operational processes and core enterprise platforms.
* Translate target operating models and business processes into clear service boundaries, contracts and dependable integration capabilities.
* Create strategic building blocks that can be adopted across multiple transformation journeys, reducing duplication and accelerating future delivery.
* Lead the incremental transition from legacy services and point-to-point integrations through safe migration, reconciliation, replay, parallel-running and rollback approaches.
* Manage dependencies and technical sequencing across squads and platforms so that near-term delivery decisions support the longer-term target architecture.
* Ensure new capabilities are secure, observable, resilient and supportable from the outset, with clear ownership throughout their lifecycle.

People and delivery leadership
* Build a high-performing, inclusive engineering team with clear goals, ownership…