Senior Engineering Manager - Business Banking

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The Senior Engineering Manager will build and scale a manager‑of‑managers layer and a reusable engineering platform across five teams in Valencia and Berlin, enabling rapid, secure, and maintainable delivery of a new business banking product. This role combines people leadership (hiring, coaching, performance calibration) with hands‑on ownership of engineering standards, platform architecture, and delivery practices in a regulated banking context.

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• Lead and grow a manager‑of‑managers layer: hire, coach, and develop founding Engineering Managers and create clear career pathways across the Valencia site.  
• Own the engineering operating system: establish and enforce standards for code review, testing, CI/CD, architecture review, observability, and incident handling.  
• Drive multi‑team delivery from discovery through MVP and production hardening, resolving cross‑team dependencies and maintaining release discipline.  
• Build a modular, reusable business‑banking platform that accelerates future use cases and reduces duplicated implementation effort.  
• Ensure service reliability, performance, security, auditability, and operational readiness for customer‑facing mobile and backend systems.  
• Partner with Product, Design, Security, Architecture, and Compliance to align priorities and deliver customer value.  
• Represent Valencia engineering in site‑building, talent planning, and leadership alignment with the Head of Valencia.

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• Proven experience as a manager of managers, directly leading and developing multiple Engineering Managers across teams.
• Demonstrable track record of multi‑team product engineering leadership (not only project/delivery management).
• Concrete examples of hiring, performance management, and building quality systems (scorecards, calibration, promotion decisions).
• Credible engineering depth: experience making technical trade‑offs, influencing architecture, and explaining technical decisions to engineers and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Hands‑on experience with engineering standards and platforms: CI/CD rollout, automated testing, observability, and incident response processes.
• Experience operating within regulated environments (security, compliance, audit readiness) or equivalent domain experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to create psychological safety and coach managers.
• Fluent in English; Spanish language skills are a plus.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), Kubernetes, and containerised deployments (nice-to-have).
• Familiarity with CI tooling (GitLab/GitHub Actions, Jenkins), observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, tracing), and mobile stacks (Kotlin/Swift or React Native) (nice-to-have).
• You're passionate about your work, but also know how to enjoy your free time!

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