Engineering Director

Director / Principal Engineer - Manchester

Manchester - on site

Salary: £130,000

We’re partnered with a global financial services organisation hiring a Director-level Principal Engineer to lead the build of a greenfield, mission-critical platform.

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands‑on engineering leader who thrives in agile environments and enjoys solving complex business challenges through scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions. You’ll play a key role in shaping engineering standards, leading talented teams, and delivering critical systems end‑to‑end.

This is a hands‑on, individual contributor role with major influence‑owning architecture, driving technical direction, and shaping a next‑generation Corporate Actions engine from the ground up.

What you’ll do

• Own architecture and design for a large‑scale, distributed platform
• Lead hands‑on engineering of a greenfield system end‑to‑end
• Set engineering standards and influence technical direction
• Drive best practice across microservices, APIs, data, and DevOps
• Partner across global teams to deliver a critical enterprise platform

What you bring

• 15+ years engineering experience, operating at Principal level
• Deep Java (Spring Boot) expertise in microservices environments
• Strong architecture experience across scalable, distributed systems
• Experience with messaging (Kafka / MQ), data modelling, and APIs
• Solid DevOps: CI/CD, containers, cloud platforms
• Hands‑on AI/ML experience and integrating AI into solutions
• Background in financial services (ideally Corporate Actions or post‑trade)
• Ability to influence without authority in complex organisations

Tech stack

Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Kafka, Oracle, Docker, CI/CD tooling

A rare opportunity to build a critical platform from scratch while operating at the highest level of technical leadership‑without people management.

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.