Salary: £65,000 - 73,000 per year Requirements: 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 optimizing relational SQL databases. Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure or GCP) and cloud-native architectures. Broad engineering experience across DevSecOps, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring, and security best practices. Proven track record of running critical production services with a focus on stability, performance, and security. A degree or equivalent professional experience. A passion for modern, inclusive engineering leadership and the ability to inspire and develop others. Responsibilities: 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, optimizing 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 prioritization, 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 Lifes strategy. Build strong relationships with third-party suppliers to maximize value and service quality. Technologies: Azure CI/CD Cloud DevSecOps Flow GCP Support MVC Rails React Ruby SQL Security Web JavaScript MySQL PaaS More: At Canada Life UK, we have been securing financial futures for over 120 years and are undergoing a transformation to modernize our technology and culture. We are focused on empowering our teams and fostering engineering excellence, which is why we are looking for an Engineering Manager for our Home Finance product engineering team. You will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for our mortgage origination and servicing systems. We value a work culture that encourages curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement, while also offering a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels they belong and can achieve their potential. last updated 5 week of 2026