What Makes Us, Us
Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!
At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.
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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US
At SimCorp, we develop products, services and solutions for leading financial institutions worldwide. In Product Development we build applications covering all aspects of investment management flows. Data and Reporting product areas cover multiple products and solutions for effortlessly ingesting, handling and usage of data. We are looking for an experienced engineering lead in the Reporting area (incl. Data warehousing and Client Communications solutions). Our Data Solutions strategy is to reduce integration complexity and make consistent, accessible, high-quality data a reality for every client. We are planning to utilize more AI technology in this area.
This is an opportunity for you to join the senior reporting leadership team, leading 3 designated product areas, consisting of 8 agile teams across several geographical locations. You report to the CVP of Data & Reporting.
What You Will Be Responsible For
- Provide strategic leadership as a leader of leaders, and their engineering teams—setting clear direction, promoting collaboration, growth, and ensuring alignment with SimCorp’s vision and objectives
- Promote a culture of innovation, accountability, and technical excellence—creating an engaging environment that promotes growth, collaboration, and delivery of premium-quality software
- Align engineering priorities with product strategy, ensuring focus on business-critical initiatives while enabling continuous improvement and scalability across teams
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, architecture, design, and operations, to deliver measurable value to our clients
- Collaborate with your engineering peers and optimize systems for effective strategy execution
- Partner with the architecture team to maintain clear technical direction and shape long-term engineering strategies that support scalability and innovation
- Build the right capabilities within teams to meet current and future business needs. Overall responsibility for the health and evolution of multiple products within Reporting
- Maintain close cost awareness, including infrastructure, cloud services (e.g., Azure), and staff
- You enable cross-team and –product area planning and execution in Reporting, and manage conflicting priorities and stakeholder expectations
- You have the responsibility to be on top of potential customer incidents / escalations and seeing them through to resolution
- Enabling change – define incremental steps to implement transformations such as new technology adoption, location strategy or migration to SaaS operating models
- Communicate, execute and follow-up on executive strategy to your organization
- Lead and manage cross product area strategies supporting large scale initiatives
What We Value
- Minimum three years experience leading leaders of cross-functional teams within a medium/large sized product area or enterprise solutions
- Agile, lean and growth mindset. Experience with Agile practices in R&D.
- Extensive technical expertise in data warehousing and reporting platforms—such as Snowflake or similar—covering dimensional and semantic data modeling, ELT/ETL pipelines, query performance tuning, and modern BI/reporting delivery
- Experience with AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) in SDLC.
- You have a good grasp of core engineering practices such as testing methodologies, coding, CI/CD, security and architecture and willing to learn where you have gaps.
- Demonstrated ability to set and defend a technical vision for a data/reporting organization — making build-vs-buy calls, evaluating platform choices, and guiding architectural direction in partnership with Architecture
- Demonstrates initiative with a client-focused approach and clear execution drive. Capacity to handle conflicting priorities and manage stakeholder expectations
- You stay focused when handling client incidents and maintain clear, constructive communication
- You enjoy sparring with your peers in Engineering, Product Management and Architecture across Product Division to find the most effective solutions for the product areas and for SimCorp
- Ability to anticipate the skillset, capability and capacity needs of the product areas across Reporting
- Effective problem-solving and collaboration skills to overcome obstacles and implement change in a large organisation
- You are pragmatic and able to handle change, promoting a culture of collaboration and trust
Benefits
Competitive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, at SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an excellent work & life balance: flexible work hours, a hybrid workplace model. On top of that, we have IP sprints where you have 3 weeks per quarter you can spend on mastering your skills as well as contributing to the company development. There is never just only one route - we practice an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.
NEXT STEPS
Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.
WHO WE ARE?
For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, education, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds.
SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.
SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.
