Software Engineering Manager

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Software Engineering Manager

Permanent

Location: Edinburgh (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)  

Salary: A competitive salary from £52,720 – £79,080 depending on the experience you can bring  

Closing date: 11th September 2026

People are living longer, and we’re excited by the opportunities this brings to help people live their best lives. We’re here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it – however grand or humble their ambitions. 

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging. 

Technology is at the heart of what we do. We’re on an exciting journey to modernise how we work – upgrading our systems, boosting our data and engineering capabilities and driving innovation. That means combining cutting-edge digital and cloud solutions with our platforms.

We have an opportunity for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to join our team in Edinburgh. In this role, you’ll drive engineering standards and delivery across established teams, ensuring they build and run high-quality software that meets customer and business needs. You’ll shape how information flows through our teams, improve processes and guide technical decisions to enable better outcomes.

You will manage demand, oversee development and support architectural changes – while ensuring teams operate with autonomy and within governance frameworks. This role often spans multiple teams, requiring strong leadership and influencing skills to align delivery across a complex environment.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Bringing together cross-functional teams – aligning engineers, analysts, architects, and other specialists to deliver high-quality solutions. Your leadership will ensure collaboration, technical excellence and a shared focus on outcomes.
• Leading technical planning, estimation and delivery across multiple initiatives.
• Owning service quality – ensuring performance, resilience, and tech debt reduction.
• Managing defects and issues to maintain system stability and reliability.
• Overseeing work intake, backlog prioritisation and delivery flow.
• Monitoring development costs and drive technical efficiency (e.g. cloud spend).
• Ensuring governance and performance tracking through metrics and controls.
• Enabling high-performing teams by embedding agile, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and SRE practices.
• Fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and a strong engineering culture.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• A technical background in Software Engineering or Architecture, focusing on Java and Python.
• Evidenced knowledge and experience of hands-on development, architecture and automation – although this role isn’t hands-on.
• Strong influencing skills to lead cross-functional teams without direct line management.
• Strong understanding of the engineering lifecycle – branching, code reviews, release governance, and change control.
• Experience building software across different platforms and technologies.
• Experience with build automation, deployment techniques, and production practices like observability and monitoring.
• Deep technical knowledge and ability to lead meaningful conversations across engineering and architecture.
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices including Agile, cloud platforms, automation, CI/CD, and tooling like Bitbucket or GitHub.
• Experience building strong relationships across senior stakeholders, product and delivery teams.
• You thrive in ambiguity, bringing a mindset of continuous improvement and adaptability.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place.  We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%.  If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us). 
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
• 36 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time).

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.  To find out more about what to expect at Aegon, visit our careers site.

Make an Impact! If you're passionate about making a difference and want to work in a place where your contributions are valued, apply now. Let's create something amazing together! 

The legal bits 

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.