Engineering Manager - Data Services & Managed File Transfer

Responsibilities

• Leadership & People
• Lead, coach and develop a distributed team of ~8 engineers across London and Bangalore, including DBAs, platform engineers and MFT engineers.
• Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development and succession planning for the team.
• Maintain a sustainable and resilient 24/7 support model, including on-call rotation, handoffs and follow-the-sun coverage.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, automation-first thinking, ownership and continuous improvement.
• Operational Ownership
• Be accountable for the availability, reliability, performance and recoverability of 500+ databases across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and AWS RDS.
• Own MFT (GoAnywhere) operations, including secure file transfer workflows, partner connectivity, patching and vulnerability remediation.
• Own incident, problem and change management for the estate; drive root-cause analysis and permanent fixes over recurring toil.
• Ensure robust backup, recovery, HA and DR arrangements, including cross-data-centre replication and failover testing.
• Platform Engineering & Automation
• Drive the self-service database provisioning platform strategy and roadmap, reducing manual effort and freeing engineering capacity.
• Champion infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling to reduce operational overhead and accelerate delivery.
• Define and enforce database standards, guardrails, security baselines and operating procedures across engines.
• Strategy, Migration & Transformation
• Set the multi-year technical roadmap for the data services estate, balancing modernisation, risk and cost.
• Lead major migration programmes end-to-end, managing risk, sequencing and stakeholder communication.
• Define and execute cloud migration strategy, including lift-and-shift vs. re-platform decisions, and own capacity planning and investment cases.
• Cost, Vendor & Licensing Management
• Own and optimise Oracle licensing and support costs, including de-scope, consolidation and rebuy strategies, while managing compliance risk.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships (Oracle, Nutanix and others) and own the team's operational and capital budget.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance
• Ensure the estate meets regulatory and audit requirements (FCA, MiFID II and equivalent) and lead remediation of audit findings.
• Embed security, data-protection and operational-resilience controls into day-to-day operations, and maintain documentation and runbooks to audit standard.
• What you'll need for this role

Requirements

• Substantial experience as a senior DBA or data platform engineer, with a proven track record of managing engineering teams in a regulated, high-availability environment.
• Demonstrable experience managing large, heterogeneous database estates at scale across multiple engines.
• Experience operating in a regulated fina

Benefits

Additional Information

Job Title Engineering Manager - Data Services & Managed File Transfer Job Description So, who are we? Hello, we're IG Group - FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions - built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses. The bar is high - bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next. Join us at IG - the future gets built here. Your Team You'll be joining the Data Services & MFT team within IG Group's Data Platforms function. Data Platforms sits at the core of a global, FCA-regulated online trading and financial services group, accountable for the data infrastructure that underpins trading, pricing, risk, compliance, reporting and analytics across the firm. The Data Services & MFT team owns and operates: A heterogeneous database estate of 500+ databases spanning Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and AWS RDS, hosted on-premises (Nutanix) and in cloud. Managed File Transfer (GoAnywhere MFT) operations, moving business-critical and regulated data securely between internal systems, counterparties and regulators. 24/7 operational support across a follow-the-sun model spanning London and Bangalore. The team is a key enabler of the firm's regulatory obligations (FCA, MiFID II), operational resilience commitments, and cost-efficiency targets. It combines deep operational ownership with platform-engineering and automation work, including a self-service database provisioning platform and large-scale migration programmes. This is a delivery-focused management role. You're expected to stay close to the technology, guide engineers on complex issues, and maintain clear alignment with a line manager based in London. The best candidate will be technically credible, calm under pressure, highly organised, and able to build trust across geographies.

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