Engineering Manager – Pricing Transformation (Contract)

About the role

We are supporting a leading financial services organisation on a major pricing transformation programme. The role is a three‑month contract (with strong extension potential) based in Bristol, requiring three days on site each week. As Engineering Manager you will guide a mixed legacy‑and‑cloud technology landscape, helping the team modernise core products and tooling.

Key responsibilities

• Lead engineering activities across the pricing transformation initiative.
• Assess legacy systems, applications and codebases to identify improvement opportunities.
• Provide technical guidance on modernisation strategies and technology investments.
• Support engineering teams in adopting modern cloud‑native technologies and best practices.
• Partner with non‑technical stakeholders to communicate challenges, options and recommendations.
• Influence technical direction across products, platforms and tooling.
• Assist architectural decision‑making for both legacy and modern environments.
• Drive engineering excellence, delivery effectiveness and continuous improvement.

Required profile

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager in complex technology environments.
• Strong background delivering technology transformation or modernisation programmes.
• Experience working across both legacy and modern technology stacks.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, architecture and platform design.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to translate business objectives into technical strategies and actionable plans.
• Comfort operating as a technology polyglot with broad exposure to different technologies.

Required skills

• TypeScript
• React
• AWS
• PHP
• Oracle
• Java