Quality Engineering and Assurance Manager

About Marex

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 3,000 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

For more information visit https://www.marex.com/

Vacancy Number: VN3144

Department description

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights, and analytics.

This role sits within the Technology department reporting to the Global IT Service Manager. Technology is central to the success of our organisation. The 290+ strong global Technology Department and delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and application support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, design, enterprise architecture and information security.

The Software Development function creates and maintains applications, frameworks and other software components to deliver to business requirements. Developers conceive, specify, design, engineer, document, test, and deliver bug fixes as needed to provide high quality software solutions. Each Development team is aligned to one of Marex’s business divisions and works for that division under Head of Technology and corresponding Application Support team.

Role Summary

Reporting to the Technology Centre of Excellence Manager, you will lead the Quality Engineering and Assurance capability. Owning the framework, standards and operating model, you will be accountable for ensuring technology quality is effectively governed within a regulated financial-services environment and for driving the transition from manual, downstream QA to an automation-first, continuous and AI-augmented model.

Owning the risk-based, proportionate and auditable Quality Engineering framework, you will define the mandatory testing, traceability, segregation of duties, automated quality gates, evidence and assurance requirements necessary to meet regulatory, SOX, audit, risk and internal control obligations. Delivery squads remain accountable for the quality of the technology they deliver and responsible for test execution, while you will ensure the enterprise framework is effective, consistently adopted and provides appropriate independent assurance and challenge.

Setting and governing engineering standards, tooling and reusable testing patterns, you will enable squads to meet quality requirements efficiently and consistently. This includes increasing automation across testing and evidence generation, embedding quality controls into CI/CD and driving adoption of AI and agentic capabilities, with appropriate human-in-the-loop controls, traceability and governance. Using quality, control and delivery data, you will identify systemic weaknesses and drive corrective action to continuously improve the effectiveness of Quality Engineering across technology delivery.

Responsibilities

Role specific:

• Own the risk-based, proportionate and auditable Quality Engineering framework and operating model, ensuring its effectiveness and adoption across technology delivery.
• Define testing, quality gates, traceability, evidence and assurance requirements to meet regulatory, SOX, audit, risk and control obligations.
• Set Quality Engineering standards, tooling and reusable patterns that enable delivery squads to own and execute quality effectively.
• Drive automation-first and AI-augmented Quality Engineering, embedding automated testing, evidence generation and appropriate human-in-the-loop controls into delivery.
• Support the Test for Operational Readiness approach, helping to define the testing and evidence required to demonstrate production readiness.
• Provide independent quality assurance and challenge, identifying material risks, governing exceptions and driving corrective action.
• Use quality, control and delivery data to identify systemic weaknesses and continuously improve quality, engineering capability and delivery outcomes.

All staff:

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA, NFA, AMF, AFM, MAS.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
• To escalate risk events immediately
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Competencies, Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Quality Engineering leadership : proven ability to own risk-based, proportionate Quality Engineering frameworks, standards and federated operating models
• Automation-first engineering : strong knowledge of automated testing, CI/CD quality gates, evidence generation and modern software engineering practices
• Regulated technology assurance : experience of controls, auditability, traceability, segregation of duties and independent assurance within regulated environments
• Leadership and influence : ability to challenge risk, drive organisational change and influence Engineering, Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance and senior stakeholders
• Quality transformation : experience transitioning organisations from centralised/manual QA towards federated, automated and engineering-owned quality

Desirable:

• AI-augmented Quality Engineering : practical knowledge of AI/agentic approaches to test generation, execution, analysis and assurance
• Financial-services controls : experience of SOX, technology risk, audit and regulatory requirements within financial services
• Operational readiness : understanding of non-functional testing, resilience, recoverability, observability, supportability and production readiness
• Cloud and DevSecOps : practical knowledge of AWS, CI/CD, security testing, cloud-native engineering and controls-as-code

Competencies:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates curiosity
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast pace and high-volume environment
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others

Conduct Rules, You must:

• Act with integrity
• Act with due skill, care and diligence
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers

Company Values

Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients

Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders

Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.

Be respectful – how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.

Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves, and our teams.

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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