Engineering manager – Automation

Hybrid role to be based in our London, Bath or Edinburgh office.

About Us: Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s on a mission to help more people invest – and invest well. We’re B-Corp certified with strong product-market fit, early traction, and potential to transform an outdated industry. We’re part of Octopus, the multi‑billion group, and we’re growing fast.

The role: As an Engineering Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in Seccl’s next phase of growth. This is a genuinely cross‑company role focused on solving operational and product problems where automation and AI can remove friction, reduce risk, and improve outcomes. You’ll work with teams across the business to understand complex processes and identify where automation and AI can help. The team focuses on AI-enabled automation: designing and delivering solutions that make day‑to‑day work easier, faster, and safer. This includes applying automation, data, and AI capabilities in a pragmatic, responsible way to augment human decision‑making, improve consistency, and strengthen control in critical workflows. The emphasis is on production‑ready solutions with real impact, underpinned by engineering discipline, governance, and resilience.

This is a leadership role with both delivery and growth accountability. You’ll work with Product, Compliance, and domain engineering teams, alongside leaders across the wider business, to address operational and technical challenges that constrain Seccl’s growth. Your leadership will influence how automation and AI are used across the organization to improve efficiency, strengthen control, and enable Seccl to scale safely as the platform and customer base grow. You’ll help shape the technical direction, operating model, and long‑term strategy for automation and AI across Seccl as the business scales.

The Automation team delivers solutions using a mix of technologies, including cloud services, custom‑built integrations, and the Microsoft Power Platform. The team includes experienced Power Platform engineers, and this role ensures these capabilities are applied thoughtfully with engineering discipline, governance, and integration alongside other technologies where appropriate.

Automation in Seccl: Automation is a critical enabler of Seccl’s growth. As the platform, customer base, and regulatory obligations scale, the ability to automate complex processes safely and intelligently is fundamental to maintaining speed, control, and operational resilience. This domain spans Product, Custody, Accounts, Finance, Operations, and Compliance, focusing on reducing manual effort, improving consistency, and enabling teams to operate at scale. We invest in production‑ready automation with strong engineering discipline and governance.

As Engineering Manager for Automation, you’ll lead how automation (including responsible use of AI where appropriate) is built, adopted, and scaled across the organisation to support Seccl’s growth now and in the future.

This role’s for you if:

• You’re an experienced Engineering Manager who has led production teams and is ready to take on a broader, cross‑company remit with real organisational impact.
• You have a strong track record of building, coaching, and developing engineers, including shaping ways of working for teams across multiple stakeholders.
• You’re comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands‑on execution, and can lead a squad that delivers value across the business rather than within a single product domain.
• You bring strong communication and stakeholder‑management skills and can work with Product, Compliance, and teams across the organisation.
• You’re confident with our tech stack: Node.js, React, MongoDB, AWS, Lambda, Serverless Framework, and JavaScript/TypeScript, and can engage credibly in architectural discussions.
• You have recent, practical experience with automation and AI‑assisted capabilities and are motivated to apply these approaches responsibly in production.
• You are confident in Prompt Engineering and verifying that Prompt + LLM produces production‑ready output.
• You have experience with automation and workflow platforms and can onboard onto new tools and ecosystems. Experience with the Power Platform is desirable but not required.
• You’re comfortable operating across a mixed technology landscape, integrating automation with APIs, data platforms, and cloud services.
• You enjoy staying close to the technology and can provide meaningful technical guidance without being the primary hands‑on contributor.
• You have experience in regulated or operationally complex environments (such as financial services, fintech, or other compliance‑heavy domains) and value governance, security, and resilience.
• You care about automation that delivers real business value, reducing manual effort, improving consistency, and making complex processes safer and easier to run.
• You’re excited to help shape how automation and AI are used across Seccl as the company grows.

This role isn’t for you if:

• You rely on a lot of top‑down direction and want to shape your own progression.
• You’re not comfortable in a fast‑paced environment; speed and scalability are essential.
• You struggle to follow through on ideas; if you care about something, you can make it happen.
• You don’t like change or embrace uncertainty.

What’s In It For You…

• Salary up to £110,000 – dependant on experience + reviewed annually.
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays + birthday day off + three days per year for Dependant leave.
• Two volunteering days per year.
• Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year.
• Secclbrate recognition programme with flexible rewards.
• Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years.
• 6% employer pension contribution and life assurance.
• Private medical insurance with AXA Health.
• Enhanced Parental leave.
• MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget.
• £750 per person learning budget.
• Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy and mental health support.
• Financial wellbeing focus with Octopus Money, Share Incentive Plan, and will writing.
• Perkbox with discounts and perks.
• Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing.

Our culture: We’re proud to put people first in a transparent and inclusive environment that encourages diversity of thought, challenge, and experimentation. Check out our Glassdoor page or LinkedIn for updates and insights.

Interview process: Interviewing is a two‑way process. Our interviews are conversational. After an initial chat with our Talent team, the typical process looks like:

• First round – 60 min System design technical round.
• Second round – 45 min Leadership and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Final round – 45 min culture‑based interview.

We’ll close the role once we have enough applications. Please submit your application promptly; you should hear back within one to two weeks. We aim to build a diverse and inclusive company. All applicants are considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity, or disability. If this sounds like your kind of thing, apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!