Engineering Manager: Lead RegTech Platform & AI Delivery in London

Novatus is a Series B scale-up RegTech SaaS provider and boutique advisory practice, enabling financial services firms to solve complex challenges and redefine what’s possible through expert-led technology and consulting. Across both our technology and consulting services, Novatus delivers practical solutions to some of the most complex regulatory, data and operational challenges in financial services.

Our SaaS platform, En>ACT (short for Ensuring Accurate, Complete and Timely reporting), is a market-leading solution for regulatory transaction reporting and reconciliation, providing real-time, independent oversight of transaction reporting across all global regulatory regimes. En>ACT is the only real-time assurance solution that tests 100% of transactions and 100% of fields, replacing sample-based reviews and static PDF reports delivered months after the event with live, actionable insights. This helps firms remediate quickly, reduce risk, and meet regulatory obligations with confidence. Already trusted by more than 45 firms worldwide, the platform is scalable, proven, and designed for both business and technical users.

Alongside our SaaS offering, our unique model delivers consulting services to solve complex challenges, combining deep expertise, ownership and delivery to create lasting change. Our expertise spans Strategy & Operations, Data & AI, Risk & Resilience, Compliance, Transaction Reporting, and ESG. We embed ourselves within client teams to deliver both insight and execution, taking ownership of outcomes and driving measurable impact. Since our launch in 2019, we have scaled rapidly, creating space for our people to grow the business. Backed by North American private equity investment, and partnerships with the London Stock Exchange Group and Snowflake’s global data platform, we are shaping the future of financial services through innovation in both consulting and technology.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a full-stack team whilst remaining hands-on with delivery and architecture. You'll provide technical leadership and mentorship to your team, and write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. You will be accountable for our core domain services, our customer-facing web application and our internally-facing tooling. You will set technical direction, drive standards, and ensure high-quality execution across the team. You'll join at a pivotal stage as we re-platform from a legacy Django application to a service-based .NET platform, with React & TypeScript frontends on AWS. Our systems power regulatory reporting for major financial institutions, requiring precision, traceability, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own delivery for our core domain services and web applications.
• Manage and mentor a team of Engineers in a player/coach capacity.
• Design, build, and optimize services using C# and .NET.
• Apply principles and best practices from DDD, Event-Driven and hexagonal architecture.
• Ensure systems are auditable, resilient and observable in regulated environments.
• Champion AI tooling in developer workflows to accelerate delivery without compromising quality.
• Partner with Product, Data Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Regulatory teams to turn requirements into effective solutions.
• Continually improve engineering standards, processes, and tooling across the team.

About You:

Must-Haves:

• Experience managing an engineering team.
• Strong hands-on experience building services with C# and .NET.
• Deep experience designing event-driven (we use Kafka), service-based systems using DDD and hexagonal architecture.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, observability).
• Hands-on experience with AWS.
• Actively uses AI tooling (e.g. Copilot, Claude Code) and has opinions on best practices.
• Ability to translate complex regulatory or domain requirements into technical specifications.
• High ownership mindset and accountability for delivery and reliability.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience re-platforming or modernizing legacy systems.
• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
• FinTech, RegTech, or financial services background.

Why Join Us?

• Work Across Disciplines: You won't be confined to a single track- you will develop a broader skillset across our capabilities and offerings.
• Solve Problems that Matter: Work on complex challenges, where your thinking, analysis, and execution have real impact.
• Flat, Visible, Collaborative: We keep the structure flat, so you can collaborate directly with senior leaders and experienced specialists. Your work is visible, your perspectives are valued, and you will see the impact of your contributions every day.
• A Place for Builders: This is a great place for people who enjoy driving results and taking ownership. If you are driven to add value and help grow our business, you will enjoy a rewarding experience that recognises your contributions.

Perks & Benefits:

• Private Medical Insurance (via AXA): includes mental health, dental, vision, and private GP access.
• Life Insurance - 4× salary (via Unum).
• Unum’s: includes GP access, medical second opinions, physiotherapy, lifestyle coaching, savings and discounts, mental health support, bereavement counselling, and cancer support services for you, your partner, and your child(ren).
• Salary sacrifice childcare and nursery scheme (via YellowNest).
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity & paternity).
• Professional qualification sponsorship.
• Accelerated career progression based on readiness and performance, not tenure or time spent in role.
• Holiday entitlement increases with tenure.
• Flexible hours with core collaboration time.
• Paid volunteering leave.
• Gym & fitness discounts.
• Bi-annual socials.
• Office snacks and drinks.
• Interest-based working groups to collaborate and innovate.

Novatus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, socioeconomic background, disability, or any other characteristic protected under the Equality Act 2010. We maintain a workplace culture that is inclusive, respectful, and supportive. Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to ensure fairness and consistency for all candidates. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the application and interview process, and candidates are encouraged to contact Human Resources to discuss any specific requirements. This commitment is embedded in all aspects of our employment practices, including recruitment, compensation, professional development, promotion, and workplace conduct.