Engineering Manager - Security
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
07-04-2025
Job Specifications
Thought Machine’s mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world’s banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking and built core and payments technology which runs natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.
We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 500 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney. We have raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn. Our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, and more.
To move closer to achieving our mission, we are looking for highly talented individuals to join our security team. Our unique culture brings together a talented group of diverse problem solvers to design, build, and maintain security within our products and our company’s systems and services.
Security Engineering Managers at Thought Machine lead security engineering in delivering on our company roadmap. To accomplish this, you will manage a group of talented security engineers as they identify issues and implement creative solutions to address them. You will contribute to security strategy, manage your own project deliverables, and help develop and grow your team. We are particularly excited to hear from people who show strong ownership of outcomes and enjoy switching between engineering management and being hands-on with technical work.
The Security Engineering Team Covers The Following Areas
Designs and reviews to build secure services and platforms
Threat modelling to identify relevant areas of focus
Define the best in class protective and detective security controls
Development of security tooling and automation
Implement and maintain cutting-edge tools and capabilities
A large part of the Thought Machine security function is greenfield; we are building the bank of tomorrow with cutting-edge technology. To achieve this, we need innovative thinking to create security solutions for our products and infrastructure. We look for people who think outside the box and outside of traditional silos to find unique solutions and approaches to security that lead the industry.
Duties
Working with your team closely on defining and delivering our security engineering roadmap.
Actively participate in technical discussions and design reviews.
Measuring your team’s impact.
Contributing to product strategy.
Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes.
Operate collaboratively with other Thought Machine teams with trust and influence
Develop engineers in your team and help them in their career development.
Leading by example: Code reviews and hands-on technical work
Requirements
Essential
2+ years experience in engineering management of product-aligned teams.
Technical background to drive technical choices and great interpersonal skills to communicate with Product Managers and client representatives. You should enjoy working in environments where you have a high level of responsibility and autonomy.
Knowledge and experience in designing, developing, and maintaining security for modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Go/Python).
You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves.
Desirable
Experience in defining roadmaps, technical architecture, and deliverables.
Experience in balancing risk management with company objectives and opportunities.
Awareness and experience with “well-architected” security frameworks such as CSA-CCM, OWASP SAMM, or similar cloud, infrastructure, or application security frameworks.
Existing experience building and operating security for distributed systems at scale.
You’ve previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.
You’ve previously taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.
Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc).
Benefits
Highly competitive salary
Pension plan (match up to 5%)
Life insurance - three times annual salary
Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)
Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
25 days holiday and bank holidays
Private health insurance with Bupa for you and your family
Health cash plan (including dental and optical)
Flexible working hours
Cycle-to-work scheme
Electric car scheme
Season ticket loan
Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
All the latest tech you need
Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
An environment where we encourage learning and progress
Two charity days a year
Weekly food pop-up
About the Company
Our team’s mission is a bold one – to create technology that can run the world’s banks according to the best designs and software practices of the modern age. In doing so, we will properly and permanently rid the world’s banks of the problems generated by poor technology running on legacy infrastructure. Our solution to this is Vault Core: a complete core banking platform that is capable of being configured easily to suit the needs of any bank. We have built Vault Core from the ground up as a cloud-native, microservices an... Know more
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