Company & Department Context

The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of one million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community.

We have offices in more than 35 cities, including London, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila, Sofia, San Francisco and Tokyo. Join us and find an inclusive and fast-paced environment with unique opportunities to support every step of your career.

Learn more about the FT, including announcements and career opportunities, at aboutus.ft.com.

Role overview 

This role sits in the Data & AI Governance function and focuses on platform engineering and infrastructure ownership to ensure the reliable and scalable operation, integration, and development of Data & AI Governance platforms across the FT.

The role is responsible primarily for designing, integrating, optimising, and maintaining cloud-native platform infrastructure and services enabling metadata management, data lineage, data quality, data access, data retention, data compliance and data sharing in a dynamic, cloud-native data platform. 

The successful candidate is expected to take technical ownership of the key data governance systems, namely SageMaker Unified Studio (SMUS) and the infrastructure-as-code solution Data Innovation Workbench (DIW), ensuring their reliability, security, scalability, and effective integration within the broader FT data platform. 

The role contributes to the FT’s broader Data & AI Governance strategy by ensuring that governance technology is robust, well-integrated and capable of scaling with increasing demand or in response to evolving industry best practices. 

The role will report directly into the Data Governance team but requires close collaboration with the FT’s DevOps, Data Engineering, BI, Data Science and Cyber Security functions.

Context & Drivers for the Role

Data & AI Governance capabilities at the FT are increasingly dependent on well-integrated, cloud-native tools. Currently, the technical ownership of these tools is distributed across multiple teams. 

As adoption grows, and the governance tools ecosystem expands, there is a need for clear technical ownership centralised in the Data Governance team to enforce consistent infrastructure standards and scalable integration patterns. 

Responsibilities 

These responsibilities reflect the current scope of the role and will evolve over time as the FT advances its data governance and platform capabilities. 

Governance Platform Technical Ownership & Reliability

• Act as the technical owner of SageMaker Unified Studio (SMUS) and Data Innovation Workbench (DIW), ensuring high availability, reliability, and security
• Serve as the primary point of contact for platform-related infrastructure issues and escalations
• Ensure that technical metadata, data lineage, and data quality is consistently captured, accurate, and reliable via SMUS
• Ensure consistent governance enforcement across integrated AWS services for all Data handling services (e.g., S3, Redshift, MSK, MWAA) via SMUS.

Infrastructure & DevOps

• Define and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using primarily AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Terraform 
• Manage and optimise cloud-native infrastructure to ensure scalability, resilience, and maintainability 
• Plan and execute infrastructure changes, upgrades, and platform improvements with minimal service disruption.

System Integration 

• Collaborate with system owning teams to setup and maintain integration between SMUS and other systems such as data stores (Redshift, S3, MongoDB), Streaming platforms (Kafka/MSK)  orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, MWAA)
• Ensure lineage metadata is accurately captured and maintained as pipelines evolve
• Design, deploy, and support integrations with additional systems (e.g. analytics tools, streaming platforms, operational databases).

Performance, Compliance & Cost Monitoring

• Monitor platform usage, performance, and capacity to ensure systems scale effectively with demand
• Track and optimise cloud infrastructure costs, establishing best practices for cost efficiency
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for platform health.
• Enable audit, monitoring, and compliance reporting for all SMUS platform activities

Continuous Improvement & Strategy 

• Contribute to the development of standards and best practices for governance tooling and infrastructure
• Advise on platform evolution, including AWS service adoption, architectural improvements, and system upgrades
• Support the broader data governance strategy by ensuring platforms enable effective governance at scale.
• Work in close partnership with FT’s Data Platform team to ensure governance capabilities are natively embedded into platform services, architectures, and delivery processes. 

Required Skills & Experience 

• Proven experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure role
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Experience supporting (ideally, owning) production-grade cloud platforms and services
• Experience monitoring, analysing, and optimising cloud costs using best practices and tooling
• Experience in setting up and supporting CI/CD pipelines, familiarity with CircleCI or willingness to acquire one 
• Understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements

Additional (Desirable) Skills & Experience 

These skills are not required at entry but will enhance early success in the role and represent key areas for development with support from the FT

• Experience implementing data governance capabilities in cloud-native environments
• Understanding of metadata, data lineage, and data & ai governance concepts
• Experience working with data platform data engineering workflows in AWS environment (e.g., Redshift, S3)
• Familiarity with SQL or willingness to acquire one
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Experience with identity and access management (IAM), SSO integration, and role-based access control
• Experience with streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka/MSK) and modern data architectures
• Experience with SageMaker Unified Studio and Data Innovation Workbench or similar data platform environments

What’s in it for you?

• Annual bonus scheme
• 25 days paid leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Parental Leave policy
• Food Allowance
• Multisport Card
• Comprehensive in-house training, and external training programs (subject to approval)

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion 

We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.

Further information

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Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be monitored to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all.

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The Team/Role

The Fund Administration team supports the operational governance of Man's 300+ fund entities across several focused sub-teams. Core activities include fund financial statements production oversight, service provider management and governance, fund entity closures/liquidations, and oversight of third-party transfer agency activities.

Based in our Sofia office, this role offers structured training and mentorship, developing a comprehensive understanding of fund operations, governance, and operating frameworks. The role requires close collaboration with international colleagues, global stakeholders, and external service providers; a high level of spoken and written English is therefore essential.

Responsibilities

Your role will be dynamic, providing support across various sub-functions within the broader team. Responsibilities will broadly cover work on some, but not necessarily all, of the following areas:
 

Service Provider Management (SPM)

• Governance & Oversight Support: Provide administrative and analytical support to the team's broader governance and oversight activities, including service reviews, due diligence exercises, and performance monitoring across fund service providers.
• New Business & Change Management: Assist senior team members in managing the onboarding of new business and change initiatives with service providers, helping to ensure smooth transitions when new products are launched.
• Commercial Oversight: Support the commercial oversight function by completing administration fee reconciliations and verifying that fees are accurately reflected in systems in line with contractual terms. Assist in preparing fee analysis and flag discrepancies for resolution.
   

Fund Liquidations

• End-to-End Closure: Support the end-to-end fund closure and liquidation process, helping manage fund entities’ passage from the final Net Asset Value (NAV) through to strike-off or liquidator appointment.
• Asset Distributions: Support the coordination of final asset distributions to investors. This includes analysing accruals and reserves to be retained, and working with administrators and transfer agents to ensure the accurate and timely payment of liquidating distributions.
• Process Improvement: Help streamline and standardise liquidation processes across all fund structures, contributing to efforts to consolidate workflows into a single, structured approach.
   

Operations Business Management

• Budgeting & Forecasting: Support Man Group Operations’ departmental budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Reporting & MI: Assist in the production of regular and ad hoc internal reports and management information (MI) for senior management and committees. This includes data gathering, tracking of deliverables, formatting, and the escalation of issues.
• Class Actions: Support the operation of the class actions process, working with claims agents to gather and analyse data that facilitates business decisions on claims participation.
   

Client Operations (COPS) & Fund Financial Reporting (FFR) Support

• Provide planned and ad-hoc analytical and administrative support to both the Client Operations and Fund Financial Reporting teams, assisting with reporting cycles, tracking deliverables, and general cross-team initiatives as required.
   

Skills & Competencies

• Language Skills: Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills are mandatory to engage confidently with international stakeholders at all levels.
• Educational Background: A strong academic background, holding a degree in a numerate discipline such as, financial, accounting, economics, or business.
• Relevant Experience: This role is suited to a recent graduate or someone early in their career. Some prior exposure to operations, accounting, or financial services is advantageous but not essential.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Microsoft Excel. Familiarity with Power BI or SharePoint is a plus.
• Attributes: High attention to detail and strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Team Orientation: A proactive, collaborative team player who learns quickly, applies new concepts well in a fast-paced environment, and is highly motivated to build a career in the financial industry.
   

Why Man Group

• Work on challenging problems at the cutting edge of technology and finance
• Opportunity to make a real impact on investment strategies managing billions in assets
• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with free parking, easy transport access and onsite amenities
• Hybrid working model
• Generous parental leave
• Opportunities for professional development 

The Team

This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the largest alternative asset managers. Technology is central to Man’s business strategy, and we are constantly evolving to stay ahead. Our culture embraces change and innovation, with engineering at the heart of our operating platform.

We are looking for a skilled C# Engineer to work within one of our Risk Engineering teams. You will work alongside Investment Risk Managers and other Engineers to deliver solutions that enable daily risk analysis and the continuous improvement of the Man Risk Platform. You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across the team.

A great chance to collaborate, and learn alongside, highly skilled engineers whilst building up core investment risk and data engineering knowledge. New joiners will get the chance to work on the latest and best technologies for the challenges ahead.

Role Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery process — from understanding the problem, designing and developing a solution, and delivering value in production
• Participate in the planning, design, and delivery of longer-term projects alongside senior engineers
• Develop and maintain core tools and services for risk data onboarding, analysis, and quality management at scale
• Collaborate with Risk Officers and other Engineering teams to deliver solutions for Investment Risk across Man Group
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing amongst peers
• Continuously improve production components — reducing technical debt, increasing release quality, and improving resource utilisation
• Support production systems and BAU requests, contributing to the team’s support rota

Key Competencies

Required

• Strong programming experience in C#/.NET
• Working knowledge of database technologies (e.g. SQL Server, MongoDB, ClickHouse)
• Familiarity with Linux environments and comfortable working across both Linux and Windows platforms
• Strong delivery-focused approach, ensuring business value is being met
• A proponent of collaborative software engineering practices: code review, unit testing, continuous integration, and refactoring
• Embracing agentic engineering — willingness and ability to work effectively with AI-assisted development tools as part of daily workflow
• Confident communicator — able to articulate ideas clearly and deal constructively with differing views
• A genuine willingness to learn new technologies, programming languages, and domain knowledge

Advantageous but not required

• Exposure to Python and its scientific ecosystem (numpy, pandas, scipy)
• Experience with data pipeline technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and workflow orchestration (Airflow)
• Experience with DevOps tooling (CI/CD, Bitbucket, Jenkins/TeamCity)
• Prior experience with financial market data or alternative data

Benefits  

• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with free parking, easy transport access and onsite amenities 
• Hybrid working model 
• Generous parental leave
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks and external conference attendance  

The Team

This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the largest alternative asset managers. Technology is central to Man’s business strategy, and we are constantly evolving to stay ahead. Our culture embraces change and innovation, with engineering at the heart of our operating platform.

We are seeking a Senior C# Engineer to join one of our Risk Engineering teams. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who sets multi-year technical strategy and delivers it through direct implementation and broad technical leadership across the Man Risk Platform. You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across the team.

A great chance to collaborate, and learn alongside, highly skilled engineers whilst building up core investment risk and data engineering knowledge. New joiners will get the chance to work on the latest and best technologies for the challenges ahead.

Role Responsibilities

• Set and drive multi-year technical strategy for significant areas of the Risk Engineering platform, aligning with business goals
• Lead the design and architecture of complex, cross-team systems — making decisions that minimise the cost of future change
• Deliver high-impact projects end-to-end, from architecture through to production deployment and operational excellence
• Champion the software products of the Risk Engineering team and drive technical planning and project management
• Champion engineering best practices across multiple teams, including CI/CD, automated testing, and scalable design patterns
• Conduct code reviews and provide deep technical guidance to engineers across the function
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis across systems
• Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
• Contribute to the evolution of our engineering culture and platform strategy

Key Competencies

Required

• Extensive professional experience in C#/.NET with a track record of delivering complex, cross-team technical projects
• Deep understanding of system architecture and distributed systems design
• Proven experience shaping technical strategy — making sound technical choices in ambiguous situations and driving alignment across teams
• Strong knowledge of database technologies (SQL Server, ClickHouse, MongoDB) including schema design, query optimisation, and performance tuning at scale
• Experience with data pipeline technologies (e.g. Kafka) in production environments
• Embracing agentic engineering — ability to leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and drive adoption across the team
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and drive consensus
• Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent
• Strong advocate for collaborative development practices and continuous improvement

Advantageous but not required

• Experience with Python and its scientific ecosystem (numpy, pandas, scipy)
• Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and workflow orchestration (Airflow)
• Experience with large-scale data platforms and data engineering at multi-terabyte scale
• Familiarity with financial market data, risk management, or quantitative systems development
• Track record of contributing to engineering culture — tech talks, open-source, or conference presentations

Benefits  

• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with easy access to transport and amenities.
• Hybrid working model
• Competitive compensation package
• 25 days holiday allowance
• Premium Health insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Referral Bonus
• Additional days off for long service and volunteering
• Multisport card
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks
• Conference attendance, and engagement with the open-source community.

The Role 

We’re seeking Senior Python Engineers to join various teams across our technology organisation, working on diverse challenges spanning systematic trading, quantitative research, a petabyte-scale data platform, and AI solutions. 

The role offers the opportunity to collaborate with and learn alongside highly skilled engineers whilst developing core technical and financial services knowledge. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and systems that power critical areas of Man Group’s business. 

Role Responsibilities 

• Design and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs that support quantitative research and trading infrastructure 
• Develop distributed compute applications, optmise performance, and implement monitoring and observability tooling to ensure system reliability 
• Build high-performance data pipelines for processing large-scale financial datasets using timeseries, SQL, and NoSQL databases 
• Partner with engineers, researchers, and platform teams to translate complex requirements into technical solutions that integrate with Man Group’s technology estate 
• Participate in production support rotations and contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices across the team 

Our Technology 

You’ll work in a modern, Linux-based infrastructure where Python is the primary development language, utilising the full scientific stack including pandas, numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn. A key component of our data infrastructure is ArcticDB (https://arcticdb.io/), our internally developed DataFrame database that you’ll use extensively. We maintain a dynamic technology landscape, continuously evaluating and adopting new tools and libraries that enhance our capabilities. man.com/technology 

Key Competencies 

Essential 

• Minimum 3 years professional software development experience, primarily using Python  
• Strong academic record with coursework focused on mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Science 
• Experience developing mission-critical production systems, with knowledge of best practices for testing, monitoring, and deployment 
• Proficient on Linux platforms and strong understanding of Git 
• Strong knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. MS SQL, Postgres, or MongoDB 
• Demonstrated experience working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured 
• Ability to work independently and gather requirements from stakeholders 

Nice to Have 

• Deep understanding of the Python scientific stack (pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn) 
• Familiarity with distributed systems and orchestration 
• Knowledge of modern data engineering practices including data pipeline & ETL tools, distributed storage & processing and data warehousing 
• Contributions to open-source projects 
• Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) 
• Experience mentoring junior team members and managing projects 

Why Man Group? 

• Work on challenging problems at the cutting edge of technology and finance  
• Collaborate with world-class engineers, researchers, and investment professionals 
• Receive on-the-job training to develop and succeed at the firm  
• Entrepreneurial, innovation-driven culture 
• Small, agile teams with high autonomy 
• Opportunity to make a real impact on investment strategies managing billions in assets 

Benefits  

• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with free parking, easy transport access and onsite amenities  
• Hybrid working model  
• Generous parental leave 
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks and external conference attendance

The Role

Join our high-performing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team and play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of the technology powering Man Group’s hedge funds. You’ll have the autonomy, tools, and support to innovate and shape the future of our platform. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, gain mentorship from senior leaders, and develop a deep understanding of both technology and the business.

As an SRE, you’ll take ownership of service reliability and deliver solutions that make a real impact. Your initial focus will include leveraging AI to accelerate incident diagnosis and resolution, improving observability, capacity planning, and automation. Over time, you’ll work across our entire infrastructure stack, operating at scale and driving continuous improvement.

Role Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability and performance of critical systems across global infrastructure through proactive monitoring and rapid incident response.
• Design and implement observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Loki to provide deep insights into system health.
• Automate operational tasks and build self-service capabilities to eliminate toil and improve efficiency.
• Develop and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to guide reliability improvements and inform engineering priorities.
• Participate in incident response efforts, blameless post-mortems, and implement preventive measures to reduce recurrence.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve system design, deployment practices, and operational excellence.
• Operate at scale, managing petabyte-level storage, large CPU/GPU deployments, and high-throughput distributed systems.
• Contribute to capacity planning and performance tuning, ensuring systems meet business demands.
• Manage multiple ELK clusters hosting hundreds of terabytes of logs, telemetry, and APM data.

Key competencies

Required

• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability best practices.
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or similar).
• Proficiency with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) and scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, PowerShell).
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed systems, with the ability to diagnose complex production issues under pressure.
• Experience with incident management, on-call rotations, and post-incident reviews.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• A proactive mindset and ability to take ownership of reliability initiatives.

Advantageous

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control workflows (Git, Jenkins, TeamCity).
• Administration of Linux and Windows systems and exposure to cloud technologies (AWS/Azure).
• Understanding of networking concepts, load balancing, and distributed architectures.
• Knowledge of AI/LLM concepts (context windows, prompt tuning, MCP servers).
• Interest in FinOps principles, desire to understand the true cost of our decisions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with easy access to transport and amenities.
• Hybrid working model
• Competitive compensation package
• 25 days holiday allowance
• Premium Health insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Referral Bonus
• Additional days off for long service and volunteering
• Multisport card
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks
• Conference attendance, and engagement with the open-source community.

The Team

We are seeking an experienced System Engineer to join our End User Engineering team. You’ll play a critical role in building and maintaining the automation frameworks that underpin our End User infrastructure operations. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies at scale, supporting our End User platforms.

You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across the team.

Role Responsibilities

As an System Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions, configuration management, monitoring systems, whilst also supporting business-as-usual activities.

You’ll work closely with the entirety of our infrastructure organization, and other platform teams to drive automation initiatives that help us further provide platforms that drive our delivery. The role is subject to on-call rotation.

Key Competencies

Required

• Experience supporting End User platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Slack.
• Exposure to identity management and associated technologies (Active Directory, Entra ID).
• Experience supporting End User clients such as Windows, MacOS, and mobile devices.
• Proficiency with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) and scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, PowerShell).
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed systems, with the ability to diagnose complex production issues under pressure.
• Awareness of security best practices, and infrastructure architecture patterns.
• Embracing agentic engineering — willingness and ability to work effectively with AI -assisted development tools as part of daily workflow

Advantageous

• Experience with device management, including Intune and Jamf
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or similar).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control workflows (Git, Jenkins, TeamCity).
• Knowledge of AI/LLM concepts (context windows, prompt tuning, MCP servers).
• Self-organised with the ability to prioritise and effectively manage time across multiple projects. 
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.  

Benefits

• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with easy access to transport and amenities.
• Hybrid working model
• Competitive compensation package
• 25 days holiday allowance
• Premium Health insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Referral Bonus
• Additional days off for long service and volunteering
• Multisport card
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks
• Conference attendance, and engagement with the open-source community.

The Role 

We’re seeking Python Engineers to join various teams across our technology organisation, working on diverse challenges spanning systematic trading, quantitative research, a petabyte-scale data platform, and AI solutions. 

The role offers the opportunity to collaborate with and learn alongside highly skilled engineers whilst developing core technical and financial services knowledge. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and systems that power critical areas of Man Group’s business. 

Role Responsibilities 

• Design and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs that support quantitative research and trading infrastructure 
• Develop distributed compute applications, optmise performance, and implement monitoring and observability tooling to ensure system reliability 
• Build high-performance data pipelines for processing large-scale financial datasets using timeseries, SQL, and NoSQL databases 
• Partner with engineers, researchers, and platform teams to translate complex requirements into technical solutions that integrate with Man Group’s technology estate 
• Participate in production support rotations and contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices across the team 

Our Technology 

You’ll work in a modern, Linux-based infrastructure where Python is the primary development language, utilising the full scientific stack including pandas, numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn. A key component of our data infrastructure is ArcticDB (https://arcticdb.io/), our internally developed DataFrame database that you’ll use extensively. We maintain a dynamic technology landscape, continuously evaluating and adopting new tools and libraries that enhance our capabilities. man.com/technology 

Key Competencies 

Essential 

• Minimum 3 years professional software development experience, primarily using Python  
• Strong academic record with coursework focused on mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Science 
• Experience developing mission-critical production systems, with knowledge of best practices for testing, monitoring, and deployment 
• Proficient on Linux platforms and strong understanding of Git 
• Strong knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. MS SQL, Postgres, or MongoDB 
• Demonstrated experience working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured 
• Ability to work independently and gather requirements from stakeholders 

Nice to Have 

• Deep understanding of the Python scientific stack (pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn) 
• Familiarity with distributed systems and orchestration 
• Knowledge of modern data engineering practices including data pipeline & ETL tools, distributed storage & processing and data warehousing 
• Contributions to open-source projects 
• Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) 
• Experience mentoring junior team members and managing projects 

Why Man Group? 

• Work on challenging problems at the cutting edge of technology and finance  
• Collaborate with world-class engineers, researchers, and investment professionals 
• Receive on-the-job training to develop and succeed at the firm  
• Entrepreneurial, innovation-driven culture 
• Small, agile teams with high autonomy 
• Opportunity to make a real impact on investment strategies managing billions in assets 

Benefits  

• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with free parking, easy transport access and onsite amenities  
• Hybrid working model  
• Generous parental leave 
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks and external conference attendance

Role Summary:

This position will support the activities of two functions within Man Group's Enterprise Risk Management team:

• Operational Risk – focuses on internal risks (things that could go wrong in our day-to-day operations)
• Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) – focuses on external risks from the suppliers and vendors we work with

Both teams identify potential risks, assess how serious they are, and work with other teams across the whole of Man Group to help manage and communicate those risks.

Role Responsibilities

Managing risk processes including:

• Collecting and updating information about risks and controls
• Tracking whether controls are working (attestations)
• Tracking compliance with the standards set out in Man Group’s Risk Management Policies
• Recording problems when they occur and tracking actions to closure
• Maintaining lists of all our vendors and assessing their levels of risk
• Monitoring performance targets and escalating issues
• Maintaining accurate records and timelines

Managing data and creating reports

• Making sure all risk data is accurate, complete, and up-to-date
• Monitoring news and industry events for risks that might affect us
• Building dashboards and reports, including automation
• Preparing draft materials for senior management meetings

Continuous process improvement

• Creating automated workflows to reduce manual work (e.g., approval requests, reminders, data updates)
• Checking data quality fixing any issues
• Developing ways of using AI to review and challenge risk and control data
• Creating clear process maps and documentation
• Finding ways to make processes more efficient
• Helping to test and improve our risk management systems

Candidate requirements:

Knowledge

• Understanding of how companies manage operational risks and controls
• Familiarity with concepts including:
• Risk assessments
• Key risk indicators
• Risk event (error) management
• Issue and Action tracking
• Vendor lifecycle management (onboarding, assessing, monitoring suppliers)

Technical skills

• Excel: advanced skills (data manipulation, lookups, pivot tables)
• Dashboards: ability to build visual reports (e.g. Power BI)
• Automation: experience with workflow tools (e.g. Power Automate)

Working style

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail
• Able to document processes clearly
• Good at breaking down complex problems into manageable steps and asking questions when required
• Comfortable working in a support role, helping risk managers
• Clear communicator who can work with different teams to gather information
• Capable of working on a hybrid basis, combining office-based work for team collaboration and face-to-face engagement with remote working flexibility

The Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Database Platform Engineer to join a team of highly skilled Engineers and DBAs who are responsible for managing the Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQL Server database estate.

The team are responsible for the day-to-day support and administration of the Oracle, MongoDB, SQL Server and PostgreSQL database estate including engineering and all database related projects. The role involves working closely with other Infrastructure teams as well as developers and end users.

This role also offers the opportunity to work on exciting technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and exposure to other DevOps aligned methods of automation, real time monitoring and metrics collections using latest Open-Source toolsets; Grafana and InfluxDB etc. 

Role Responsibilities

• Administer and manage the Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQL Server database estate.
• Collaborate with other technology teams to identify and implement optimal solutions for Man Group.
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn new technologies in this area.
• Ensure the rollout of a standards-based estate using relevant configuration management tools.
• Plan capacity for physical and virtual database servers.
• Ensuring high availability of the infrastructure and minimising the duration and impact of any outages.
• Maintain a consistently high level of service delivery for incidents, requests, and changes.
• Provide database support and advice to Infrastructure teams, developers, and end users.
• Uphold database security standards across the database estate.
• Participate in an on-call support rota.

Key Competencies

Required

• Deep knowledge of Oracle or PostgreSQL RDBMS.
• Foundational knowledge of MongoDB or SQL Server.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and configuration management tooling such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Proficiency in Linux.
• Strong scripting skills (preferably Bash, PL/SQL, Python, Powershell).
• Experience of designing, building, configuring Data-Guard, RMAN.
• Ability to diagnose and tune performance across the entire stack (Database internals, OS, Storage, Networks).
• Proven ability to automate builds and repetitive tasks.
• Flexibility to broaden and develop skills in any area as required.
• Strong prioritization and project management skills.

Advantageous

• Experience with Docker containerization.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
• Eagerness to learn and understand the business environment.

Benefits

• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with easy access to transport and amenities.
• Hybrid working model
• Competitive compensation package
• 25 days holiday allowance
• Premium Health insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Referral Bonus
• Additional days off for long service and volunteering
• Multisport card
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks
• Conference attendance, and engagement with the open-source community.

The Team

The team is currently undergoing significant investment in order to rationalise the trading capability across AHL, Numeric and the Discretionary teams.  The engineering team works exceptionally closely with both the Trading Desk and the Execution Research team in order to design, build and maintain a world-class trading capability.  We have trading floors in London, Hong Kong, Boston and New York and are responsible for trading in excess of 8 trillion dollars annually.

We are continually expanding the markets, asset classes and regions in which we trade as well as the styles in which we trade them. The team is responsible for designing imaginative and flexible software and tools to keep pace with this change.

Role Responsibilities

As a Senior Java Engineer you will be building the tools, platforms and algorithms that enable Man’s investment engines to drive forward their centralised global trading operation.

Your challenges will be varied and might involve building new execution algorithms, the platforms on which they run, simulation environments, intelligent order routing, connectivity to execution venues and brokers, tools for high touch and quant traders, monitoring capability, post-trade performance analysis and software to optimise all aspects of the trading lifecycle.

We are looking to hire talented software engineers across the experience spectrum, and previous experience with almost any asset class will be an advantage. You should have the enthusiasm for leveraging AI development tools to accelerate delivery and driving their adoption across the team.

Financial knowledge is not essential - we are looking for highly skilled, motivated engineers who are excellent communicators and keen to learn.

Our Technology

Our systems are almost all running on Linux and most of our code is in Java, with some Python and TypeScript.

We use Kafka as the backbone of our platform, Aeron, Git for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, Docker for containerisation, Ansible for architecture automation, and Slack for internal communication. But our technology list is never static, we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.

Technology and Business Skills

You will be an expert software developer and ideally have an understanding of the financial markets with relevant electronic trading experience in at least one of the asset classes that we trade. You’ll be a member of a highly-focused team with an exceptionally broad responsibility, so great communication skills and an ability to work as part of a team are a must. You’ll possess a significant proportion of the following skill-set;

Key Competencies

Required

• Expert proficiency in Java.
• Database / SQL skills.
• Great communication skills coupled with the ability to work closely with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• A proponent of strong software engineering techniques and agile methods: continuous integration, code review, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches.
• Proficient working on both Linux and Windows platforms.
• Embracing agentic engineering — willingness and ability to work effectively with AI -assisted development tools as part of daily workflow

Advantageous

• An excellent understanding of financial markets and instruments.
• Experience with FIX a significant advantage.
• Experience working closely with Quants and/or Traders.
• Python knowledge.
• Experience of front office software and/or trading systems development e.g. in a hedge fund or investment bank.
• Expertise in building distributed systems with service-based or event-driven architectures, and concurrent processing.
• Experience of web based development (TypeScript).
• Relevant mathematical knowledge e.g. statistics, asset pricing, time-series analysis optimisation algorithms.
• Embracing agentic engineering — willingness and ability to work effectively with AI -assisted development tools as part of daily workflow

Personal Attributes

• Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics from a leading university
• Craftsman-like approach to building software; takes pride in engineering excellence and instils these values in others
• Demonstrable passion for technology e.g. personal projects, open-source involvement
• Intellectually robust with an analytic approach to problem solving
• Self-organised with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities
• Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders and senior business people alike
• Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.

Benefits

• Modern office located in the OfficeX campus with easy access to transport and amenities.
• Hybrid working model
• Competitive compensation package
• 25 days holiday allowance
• Premium Health insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Referral Bonus
• Additional days off for long service and volunteering
• Multisport card
• Opportunities for professional development including internal tech talks
• Conference attendance, and engagement with the open-source community.

ABOUT THE TEAM

ABOUT THE ROLE

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. 

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ABOUT THE TEAM:

As a Regulatory Risk & Compliance Specialist - UK, you will play a vital role in ensuring Tide complies with the evolving regulatory requirements set by the FCA and other UK regulators. You will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating regulatory risks, while ensuring that Tide’s compliance frameworks are embedded across the business. 

Working closely with teams across the organisation, including Product, Member Operations, Payments, Marketing, Legal and Finance, you will provide expert advice on regulatory developments, lead compliance initiatives, and integrate regulatory requirements into our day-to-day operations.

As the subject matter expert on particular regulations, you’ll help to steer decisions, impact strategies and support the rest of the team and business. At Tide, you’ll be able to work in a fast-paced environment, with cross-team exposure, inquisitive freedom and the ability to impact how Tide conducts its business.

ABOUT THE ROLE: 

• Provide regulatory guidance on product and service development, conducting compliance assessments for new initiatives
• Research regulatory developments in the UK, assess their impact, and advise on necessary actions
• Execute the Compliance Monitoring Plan, taking ownership of monitoring activities, addressing findings, and engaging stakeholders as needed
• Support regulatory submissions, including licence applications, periodic reports, and responses to regulatory information requests
• Ensure accurate and timely regulatory reporting by working closely with business areas and conducting oversight checks where required
• Maintain and update compliance policies in line with UK and FCA regulations, tracking required refresh cycles
• Support the Regional Director of Risk & Compliance and the Global Director of Compliance in regulatory engagements, strategic planning, and governance
• Lead and actively participate in the Regulatory Risk & Compliance working groups, ensuring key issues are identified, addressed, and escalated
• Act as a liaison for external partners and service providers on oversight requests and regulatory expectations
• Coordinate and deliver compliance and risk-related training across the business
• Collect and prepare MI for internal governance reporting and external regulatory submissions
• Track regulatory deadlines, file submissions, maintain a log of regulatory interactions, and prepare for meetings and inspections with the FCA and other authorities
• Engage with internal teams to respond to compliance-related requests and regulatory inquiries, ensuring cross-functional alignment
• Work closely with the 1LOD to remediate regulatory oversight findings and enhance controls
• Identify, assess, and monitor regulatory risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation measures are in place
• Support internal and external audits, participate in compliance reviews, and oversee effective remediation of findings

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• At least four years of experience in Compliance, Regulatory Risk, or Risk Management at a mid level within Financial Services
• Direct experience interacting with regulators, handling responses, managing notifications, and supporting regulatory inspections, audits, and thematic reviews
• Familiarity with regulatory submissions, licence applications, and reporting
• Experience in oversight functions, monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs), and providing Compliance Advisory on new initiatives, products, and services.
• Background in Banking, FinTech, Payments/E-Money firms, or Regulatory Consultancy.
• Ideally you'll have experience working with firms under the FCA regulations.
• Ability to interpret complex regulations, research requirements, and advise internal stakeholders on compliance matters.
• Proactive problem solver with a strong sense of ownership and accountability in resolving compliance challenges.
• Exceptional organisational skills, managing multiple projects, deadlines, and regulatory engagements effectively.
• Meticulous attention to detail, with strong drafting, analytical, and risk assessment skills.
• Fluency in English (mandatory)

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN: 

Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans: 

• 25 days holiday
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• Sabbatical Leave
• Additional health & dental insurance
• Mental wellbeing
• L&D/ Volunteering leave
• Learning & Development Budget Amount differs by level & team
• Work Outside the Office
• WFH Setup allowance
• Laptop incentive scheme
• Fully covered Multisports card
• Food vouchers (120 BGN)
• Snacks, light food, drinks in the office

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. For this role you'll ideally be able to work from our Sofia office once a week. 

ABOUT THE TEAM

ABOUT THE ROLE

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. 

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ABOUT THE TEAM

ABOUT THE ROLE

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community. 

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ABOUT THE TEAM:

The People Partnering team at Tide plays a pivotal role in driving business success by acting as strategic advisors and coaches to leaders at all levels. We provide expert guidance on organisational design, talent development, employee relations, and engagement, ensuring a positive and high-performance culture. Embedded within the business, we use data-driven insights to shape policies, pre-empt workforce challenges, and lead high-impact initiatives that enable Tideans to do work they love.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

• Acting as a trusted partner to leaders up to Director level, supporting organisational design, workforce planning, performance, and engagement initiatives that enable team effectiveness and growth.
• Partnering closely with managers and senior leaders to improve engagement, performance, and retention through data-informed insights and thoughtful action planning.
• Leading and contributing to high-impact People projects within your client group, ensuring initiatives are delivered effectively and aligned to business priorities.
• Managing a wide range of employee relations cases independently, using sound judgement to balance business needs with fairness and consistency.
• Using people data (e.g. engagement, attrition, DEI, compa-ratio) to identify trends, diagnose challenges, and recommend practical solutions to stakeholders.
• Supporting and executing core People processes (e.g. performance cycles, talent reviews), ensuring a high-quality and consistent experience across your client group.
• Coaching managers on day-to-day people topics including performance management, team dynamics, and development, building their confidence and capability.
• Supporting organisational design and talent planning conversations, ensuring teams are structured effectively for current and future needs.
• Driving adoption of People initiatives by tailoring central programmes to your client group and ensuring successful rollout.
• Contributing to a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture by embedding DEI principles into people practices and decisions.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• 4–7 years of HR Business Partnering experience, including exposure to senior stakeholders (Head of / Director level).
• Experience partnering within fast-paced, technology or product-led organisations.
• Strong understanding of HR fundamentals, including employee relations, performance management, and engagement practices.
• Working knowledge of employment law and HR practices in relevant regions (e.g. Europe).
• Ability to use people data and metrics to inform decisions and influence stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to connect people initiatives to business outcomes.
• Confident communicator with the ability to coach, influence, and build relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, execute independently, and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
• Good judgement and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity.
• Passion for building inclusive, high-performing teams and continuously improving ways of working.

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN: 

Our location-specific employee benefits are designed to cater to the unique needs of Tideans: 

• Competitive Compensation -  Competitive salary.
• Time Off – Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays.
• Health Insurance – Private health insurance with Bulgaria Zdrave, including extra dental care.
• Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.
• Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth.
• WOO (Work Outside the Office) – Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
• Home Office Setup – Contribution towards setting up your home office
• Fully Covered Multi Sports Card – Granting access to hundreds of gyms and pools across Bulgaria
• Monthly Food Vouchers -– Monthly food vouchers to enjoy your favorite meals with Edenred +
• Snacks & Meals – Daily breakfast spread with all-day coffee, tea, and juices.

TIDEAN WAYS OF WORKING

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. 

While remote work is supported, we believe in the power of face-to-face interactions to foster team spirit and collaboration. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.
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Yotpo helps brands turn first-time shoppers into lifelong customers through reviews and loyalty.
As we modernize the UGC Product House into a scalable, self-serve platform, our infrastructure becomes a critical priority. If you’re passionate about technical leadership, engineering excellence, people growth, and driving modernization across multiple teams, this could be your dream job.

Your Mission at Yotpo:

We are seeking an R&D Team Lead to drive technical modernization, improve developer experience, and elevate engineering quality across the UGC Product House. In this role, you will lead an engineering team, shape the modernization roadmap, and work closely with Experience Teams to enable fast, scalable, and reliable product value delivery across the UGC Product House.
This position blends people leadership, architectural direction, and hands-on technical contribution, while working in close partnership with Yotpo’s Infra teams and technical leadership to shape the future foundations of the UGC platform.

What you'll do:

• Modernization Roadmap & Planning: Define and align the modernization roadmap for the UGC Product House, ensuring clear prioritization, stakeholder communication, and strong collaboration with engineering and product partners.
• Team Leadership & Coaching: Lead the Infrastructure Modernization Team, providing mentorship, fostering technical growth, and shaping a high-performing engineering culture.
• Embedded Execution Model: Ensure the team successfully embeds within Experience Teams to execute modernization initiatives and architectural consistency, while promoting knowledge transfer.
• Hands-on Technical Contribution: Actively contribute to complex design, architectural work, POCs, and infrastructure modernization through consistent hands-on execution.
• Engineering Standards & Best Practices: Define, promote, and enforce engineering standards across the Product House, raising quality in areas such as scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Reliability & Stability Enablement: Partner with Experience Teams to support and nurture long-term resilience and stability initiatives and culture.
• Developer Experience & Velocity: Drive improvements in tooling, CI/CD, observability, testing, and AI-assisted workflows to increase engineering velocity and reduce operational friction.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure modernization efforts and infrastructure investments support the UGC strategic focus.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, product, design, data, and cross-PH stakeholders to gather input, align priorities, and maintain transparency across teams.
• Cross-R&D Initiatives & Leadership Forums: Participate in R&D-wide leadership forums, contributing to cross-organizational decisions, knowledge sharing, and long-term engineering direction.

What You Bring:

• Experience & Leadership: 8+ years as a senior backend, platform, or infrastructure engineer, with at least 2 years leading engineers or driving cross-team technical initiatives.
• Modernization Expertise: Proven track record of leading modernization, replatforming, or large-scale technical transformation efforts in high-scale environments.
• Architectural Strength: Deep understanding of distributed systems, service architectures, and scalable backend design, with the ability to define and communicate architectural direction.
• Reliability & Stability Focus: Experience improving performance, reliability, operational hygiene, and reducing production noise across complex systems.
• Developer Experience Mindset: Passion for improving developer workflows, internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and engineering velocity.
• Coaching & Mentorship: Strong ability to mentor senior engineers, elevate technical thinking, and create an environment that encourages growth and ownership.
• Collaboration & Influence: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without authority and align multiple teams.
• Strategic Problem-Solving: A long-term thinker able to balance modernization priorities with product needs, making pragmatic, data-informed decisions.
• Quality-Driven Approach: Deep commitment to maintainability, security, performance, and overall engineering excellence.

Technical Skills:

• Backend & Architecture: Expertise in Java/Kotlin, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, or similar technologies, with strong system design and architecture capabilities.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD systems, and cloud-native operational practices.
• Data & Messaging: Familiarity with MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and event-driven or streaming architectures.
• Observability & Reliability: Strong understanding of logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and resilience patterns.
• Developer Tooling: Experience with internal platforms, automation, quality gates, static analysis, and workflow/tooling improvements.
• AI-Assisted Development: Familiarity with GitHub Copilot, LLM APIs, and AI-driven developer acceleration workflows.

What we offer:

• Track to success – work in a dynamic organization with ambient and laid-back office atmosphere
• Individualized career development, rewards, and recognition.
• Work-life balance – 25 days paid vacation with add-ons for loyalty, regular team buildings and celebrations in and outside the country
• Additional health insurance package
• Internal mobility program and refer-a-friend program
• Managing a fixed monthly budget for social benefits thru Re:Benefit – a flexible online benefits solution
• Food vouchers
• E-learning portals and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Company backed Hackathons, Tech conferences, workshops events, etc
• Stocked kitchen and bar.
• Equity in options.
• Flexible hybrid capacity

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, that’s okay! We believe in hiring people, not just skills. If you have a passion to learn and are excited about eCommerce and technology, then we want to hear from you.

Help us be the best version of Yotpo by building something great together!