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