# Software Engineering Manager - Security

**Company**: Thought Machine
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology.

As a Software Engineering Manager - Security, you will lead complex technical projects to deliver on our product roadmap, managing a group of talented engineers as they identify issues and implement creative solutions.

The security team is cross-functional and comprises diverse people who bring their unique engineering expertise. The team covers the following areas:

- Define the best in class solutions to engineering problems

- Designs to build secure services and platforms

- Engineer unique solutions and tooling to engineering problems

- Implement and maintain cutting-edge solutions and capabilities

**Duties**

- Working with your team closely on defining and delivering our security engineering roadmap.

- Actively participate in technical discussions and design reviews.

- Measuring your team’s impact.

- Contributing to product strategy.

- Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes.

- Operate collaboratively with other Thought Machine teams with trust and influence

- Develop engineers in your team and help them in their career development.

- Leading by example: Code reviews and hands-on technical work

**Requirements** **Essential**

- 2+ years experience in engineering management of product-aligned teams.

- Technical background to drive technical choices and great interpersonal skills to communicate with Product Managers and client representatives.

- Knowledge and experience in designing, developing, and maintaining security for modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Go/Python).

**Desirable**

- Experience in defining roadmaps, technical architecture, and deliverables.

- Experience in balancing risk management with company objectives and opportunities.

- Awareness and experience with “well-architected” security frameworks such as CSA-CCM, OWASP SAMM, or similar cloud, infrastructure, or application security frameworks.

- Existing experience building and operating security for distributed systems at scale.

- You’ve previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.

- You’ve previously taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.

- Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc).

**Benefits**

- Highly competitive salary

- Pension plan (match up to 5%)

- Life insurance - three times annual salary

- Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)

- Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)

- 25 days holiday and bank holidays

- Flexible working hours

- Cycle-to-work scheme

- Electric car scheme

- Season ticket loan

- Access to outstanding learning materials and courses

- Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine

- All the latest tech you need

- Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals

- Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks

- A talented and experienced team as your colleagues

- An environment where we encourage learning and progress

- Two charity days a year

- Weekly food pop-up

## Skills

### Required
- engineering management
- security engineering
- AWS or GCP
- Kubernetes
- Go/Python

### Nice to have
- roadmap definition
- technical architecture
- risk management
- cloud security frameworks
- distributed systems

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