Job Specifications
Hybrid role to be based in our London, Bath or Edinburgh office.
About Us
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s on a mission to helping more people to invest – and invest well.
We’re B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We've been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years.
We’re also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi billion group that's on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.
Check out the Seccl website for the latest on our products and our mission to shape the future of investments.
The role
As an Engineering manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in Seccl’s next phase of growth. This is a genuinely cross-company role, focused on solving realoperational and product problems wherever they exist. You’ll work closely with teams across the business to understand complex processes and identify where automation and AI can remove friction, reduce risk, and improve outcomes.
The team’s focus is on AI-enabled automation: designing and delivering solutions that make day-to-day work measurably easier, faster, and safer. This includes applying automation, data, and AI capabilities in a pragmatic, responsible way: augmenting human decision-making, improving consistency, and strengthening control in critical workflows.
The emphasis is on production-ready solutions with real impact, not experimentation for its own sake. Success in this role comes from delivering meaningful operational improvement, underpinned by strong engineering discipline, governance, and resilience.
This is a leadership role with both delivery and growth accountability.
You’ll work closely with Product, Compliance, and domain engineering teams, alongside leaders across the wider business, to identify and address the operational and technical challenges that constrain Seccl’s growth. Your leadership will directly influence how automation and AI are used across the organisation to improve efficiency, strengthen control, and enable Seccl to scale safely as the platform and customer base continue to grow.
This role goes beyond day-to-day squad leadership: you’ll help shape the technical direction, operating model, and long-term strategy for automation and AI, influencing how these capabilities are applied across Seccl as the business scales.
The Automation team delivers solutions using a mix of technologies, including cloud services, custom-built integrations, and the Microsoft Power Platform. The team includes experienced Power Platform engineers, and part of this role is to ensure these capabilities are applied thoughtfully, with appropriate engineering discipline, governance, and integration alongside other technologies where they are a better fit.
Automation in Seccl
Automation is a critical enabler of Seccl’s growth. As the platform, customer base, and regulatory obligations scale, the ability to automate complex processes safely and intelligently is fundamental to maintaining speed, control, and operational resilience across the business.
This domain spans the full breadth of Seccl - supporting teams across Product, Custody, Accounts, Finance, Operations, and Compliance - and focuses on reducing manual effort, improving consistency, and enabling teams to operate at scale. The scope continues to expand as we tackle increasingly complex workflows, higher transaction volumes, tighter regulatory expectations, and new growth initiatives.
We are investing in this team to ensure automation is applied in a deliberate, production-ready way, with strong engineering discipline and governance. As Engineering Manager for Automation, you’ll be a key leader responsible for shaping how automation (including the responsible use of AI where appropriate) is built, adopted, and scaled across the organisation, ensuring it continues to support Seccl’s growth ambitions over the next 12 months and beyond.
On a typical day you will be…
Partnering closely with Product managers to define priorities, plan delivery, and align initiatives with Seccl’s commercial, regulatory, and platform goals
Supporting and challenging technical decision-making, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, and well-integrated across the wider platform
Remaining hands-on where it adds value - through design reviews, architectural spikes, prototyping, or unblocking complex delivery challenges
Working closely with Platform engineering and other domain leaders to ensure strong cross-squad collaboration and consistency
Owning delivery health across your domain, including production readiness, incident response, and operational excellence
Using metrics and feedback to continuously improve delivery predictability, system reliability, and team effectiveness
Contributing to broader engineering leadership discussions, helpin