Engineering Manager

Canada Life UK has helped individuals, families and businesses secure their financial futures for over 120 years. Today, we are transforming our technology, culture and ways of working to become a more modern, customer centric and engineering led organisation. As we modernise our IT estate and shift toward cloud, SaaS/PaaS and product centric delivery, we are investing heavily in engineering excellence, empowered teams and great leadership.

You will lead the evolution of our bespoke Ruby on Rails-based mortgage origination and servicing platform, architecting modern, resilient and scalable solutions.

We operate stream-aligned product teams where Engineering Managers have real authority over technology decisions, people development, engineering standards and team culture.

You will drive cloud adoption, DevSecOps, automation, data-driven decision making and continuous improvement across the lifecycle.

We are building a place where engineers can do their best work - curious, collaborative, inclusive, and always improving.

The role involves leading a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for the Home Finance application stack. You will act as a servant leader and coach, improving engineering practices, nurturing talent and enabling the team to deliver high-quality outcomes that support our customers and regulatory obligations. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will influence architecture, delivery, operational excellence and culture across the product. You will work closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers and operational teams to optimise flow, deliver customer value and modernise our platforms.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead, coach and inspire a stream-aligned product engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, psychological safety and high performance.
• Drive adoption of agile, DevSecOps and modern engineering practices, optimising the flow of change and reducing time-to-value.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver secure, stable and scalable solutions that support Home Finance operations and customer outcomes.
• Ensure regulatory compliance (including FCA MCOB) and operational excellence across the platform.
• Shape the technology roadmap, contributing to architectural decisions and cloud migration strategies.
• Manage operational risk, security posture, monitoring, alerting and incident response for Home Finance systems.
• Use data and insights to guide prioritisation, engineering improvements and product decisions.
• Support talent development, succession planning and recruitment to build a high-performing engineering capability.
• Manage budgets responsibly, improving cost efficiency and value delivery.
• Define and track team and departmental OKRs, ensuring alignment with Canada Life's strategy.
• Build strong relationships with third-party suppliers to maximise value and service quality.

About you:

Technical expertise includes a strong understanding of mortgage origination/administration systems or comparable regulated financial platforms, experience delivering and operating web-based MVC applications (e.g., Ruby on Rails, React) and APIs, and hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure or GCP) and cloud-native architectures.

Leadership & delivery requires being a people-first engineering leader who builds high-performing, motivated and curious teams, confident working with OKRs and outcome-driven delivery, and skilled at navigating ambiguity, prioritising effectively and influencing senior stakeholders.

What you will bring includes a degree or equivalent professional experience and a passion for modern, inclusive engineering leadership and the ability to inspire and develop others.

Benefits of working at Canada Life include a competitive salary and benefits package that is regularly reviewed, including a generous pension and bonus scheme, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance.

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others.

Diversity and inclusion is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we are making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.