Senior Manager, Engineering

Who we are

At Mambu, we believe that banking and financial services can change the world for the better. We also know that inflexible systems are slowing innovation and limiting impact. We’re on a mission to change that, to make banking work better for everyone. 

 

Join us as we bring banking and financial services technology into the digital-first world. Where our best-in-class, cloud-banking platform is igniting financial change globally. Where we are enabling our customers to build great banking experiences for their customers; in a faster, more flexible and more dependable way than ever before. 

 

If this mission drives you, if you are bold, curious, customer-obsessed and ready to embrace a challenge, then we want you on our team. 

 

At Mambu our people are the foundation! We prioritise continuous learning and development to empower Mambuvians for success and growth. We provide a learning budget by function for professional development and offer a comprehensive L&D program that enhances both technical expertise and soft skills.

 

Let’s rewrite the rules of banking together!

What you’ll do

• Build and serve performing teams in an Area by:
• Working close to business expertise, Product Managers, & technical expertise, Staff Engineers or Principals, to acquire knowledge for decision making and enable new development;
• Ensuring roadmap successful delivery, on-time and in budget;
• Ensuring smooth, transparent and frequent solutions releases;
• Ensuring compliance with and contribute to definition of quality and security standards for delivered solutions;
• Ensuring compliance and evolution of operational, incident management included, standards for delivered solutions;
• Ensuring compliance with architectural principles for delivered solutions;
• Being accountable for changes implementation feasibility and alignment to objectives; 
• Defining and act (monitoring included) on team objectives to achieve team objectives, as agreed with Engineering Director;
• Ensuring each person fully understands their role/position and achieves the outcomes expected from them.

• Ensure that capacity & skills are ahead of team needs by:
• Defining outside-in purposed teams to meet objectives ensuring team capacity to achieve expected outcomes;
• Defining recruiting strategies to acquire new skills or create capacity to satisfy business needs, longevity, skills diversity, attrition mitigation and competitiveness at team level;
• Ensuring teams are built up only by Mambuvians aligned to our company values, engineering goals and required set of skills ;
• Assuring balance and spread to facilitate technical and delivery sustainability .

• Provide constant growth and clear career path for Engineers by:
  • Creating personalized career development plans for engineers and guide them in achieving both personal & organization goals;
  • Establishing holistic coaching and mentorship principles and ensure each team member receives fair & just-in-time feedback;
  • Facilitating relevant learning and skills growth for each engineer (training, conferences, learning materials, mentors etc.).
• Find a way of working that enables teams’ high autonomy, high alignment by:
  • Defining and applying modern engineering practices to enable team autonomy and alignment to our way of working;
  • Ensuring teams are able to autonomously design, build, test and operate their services;
  • Identifying impediments and applying ways to overcome them;
  • Connecting with other teams and stakeholders to provide visibility & transparency to current progress and agree next objectives.

• Ensure that onboardings are efficient & scalable by:
• Designing efficient onboarding process for new colleagues (new Mambuvians or people transitions from other groups);
• Making sure that new members are aligned to our values and culture & their skills and plans are aligned with the team they are part of;
• Capturing on-time feedback about the people in on-boarding and monitoring actions/corrections.

• Promote Mambu culture and Ways of Working by:
• Communicating internally and with each individual about our direction and beliefs;
• Being involved as a speaker at meetups/conferences in order to attract talent and contribute to the community.

What you’ll bring

• Strong leadership skills, in regards to establishing trust, transparency, direction and goals;
• Solid hands on background in pla