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. The 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.

Responsibilities

- 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.

Qualifications





- 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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📌 Senior Engineering Manager - Business Banking (Valencia)
🏢 DKB Code Factory
📍 Valencia