Engineering Manager / Scrum Manager, Home Based

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're investing heavily in engineering excellence, empowered teams and great leadership.

We're now looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Home Finance product engineering team - a group responsible for the systems that power our mortgage origination and servicing capabilities. You'll 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.

Modern engineering focus

• Drive cloud adoption, DevSecOps, automation, data-driven decision making and continuous improvement across the lifecycle.
• Build a place where engineers can do their best work - curious, collaborative, inclusive, and always improving.
• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for the Home Finance application stack.
• 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.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers and operational teams to optimise flow, deliver customer value and modernise our platforms.
• Ensure regulatory compliance (including FCA MCOB) and operational excellence across the platform.
• 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.
• Build strong relationships with third-party suppliers to maximise value and service quality.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Skilled in designing, managing and optimising relational SQL databases.
• Broad engineering experience across DevSecOps, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring and security best practice.
• Proven track record of running critical production services with a focus on stability, performance and security.
• A people-first engineering leader who builds high-performing, motivated and curious teams.
• Collaborative, pragmatic and adept at building trust across product, engineering and operational teams.
• A passion for modern, inclusive engineering leadership and the ability to inspire and develop others.

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that's regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That's why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.