Senior Manager, Engineering - Observability and Monitoring
We are looking for a senior Manager, Engineering for our Observability and Monitoring teams. Someone who can take ownership of two high-visibility teams building the operational backbone of SimCorp One, and who is ready to help define how we see, detect, and resolve issues across the company before clients feel them.
WHAT MAKES US, US
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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
The AI & Insights area is building the foundation for reliable, intelligent operations of SimCorp's offerings. When something breaks in our systems, we need to know immediately, and our teams need to quickly be able to understand the root cause. Ideally, we see the signals in advance, initiate self-healing, and avoid interruptions for our clients. Observability and Monitoring are how we enable that.
The Observability team owns the data foundation: a standard, Open Telemetry-based way for every SimCorp system to emit logs, traces, and metrics, collected on a central Operational Data Platform that SREs, monitoring, and AI agents can all use. The Monitoring team owns what we do with that data: one governed monitoring standard with a single alert funnel, a standard alert payload, and one Grafana instance for dashboards and alert rules. Together, the two teams are the data and signal layer for AIOps: AI-assisted root-cause analysis, proactive resolution, and self-healing workflows.
You will partner closely with the Product Managers for Observability and Monitoring and with the architect to turn the roadmap into delivery, and you will report directly to the Senior Director of Engineering. You will also be part of the AI & Insights leadership team, contributing to the broader deliveries and growth of the area.
WHAT WILL YOU BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
Team leadership and development
Lead and grow the Observability and Monitoring teams, distributed across multiple locations, creating clear priorities and a supportive, engaged culture
Develop individual engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, and honest feedbac
Build one coherent engineering group across two domains, with the right composition, skills, and no single-person dependencies
Hire and onboard new engineers into fast-moving workstreams as scope grows
Delivery and operations
Own delivery of the Observability and Monitoring roadmaps
Hold a high bar on quality, security, and operational readiness
Manage day-to-day prioritisation, capacity, and engineering health across both teams, keeping delivery and engagement strong
Remove blockers before they slow the team down, including the ones involving other teams
Stakeholder and cross-team collaboration
Partner with the Product Managers to translate product strategy into an executable delivery plan
Work with the architect on technology direction, from the OpenTelemetry data plane to the alerting and visualisation stack
Collaborate with SREs, Operations, SaaS reliability, and the product development teams who instrument their code and consume the data, and translate technical work into clear updates for non-technical stakeholders
Align with the Senior Director of Engineering on priorities and risks
Strategy and growth
Help shape SimCorp's observability, monitoring, and AIOps strategy as scope expands from collecting data to automated root-cause analysis and…