About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.

Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as of December 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level : 5

Department: Group Technology Solutions

Location: Southampton | Home Worker

Contract type : Permanent.

Reporting into the Head of Software Engineering, the Head of Digital Engineering is a pivotal role within the Quilter Technology function. Within this role the incumbent will be responsible for managing the features, performance, security, and risk of Quilter Digital Solutions and Applications, including the web and mobile apps.

The role is responsible for the Run and Change of the Digital solutions, within Quilter’s risk appetite and cost profile, ensuring ongoing delivery of fit-for-purpose functionality is provided to the broader Quilter organisation.

As part of a vertically integrated business, you will be involved in a number of Quilter wide Business and IT transformation initiatives, working closely with the Digital Proposition team, to deliver change onto our Digital Solutions. You will play a role in building out our digital capability driving growth and efficiency and delivering improvements in our operating margin. Embedding solutions and propositions will be a key focus as well as bringing modern technology and features to market which will allow our customers to feel more secure about the financial future and help advisers run more successful advice businesses.

The successful candidate will be responsible for our Digital Solutions. This includes the Quilter Web-sites, mobile applications and Extranet solutions.

The key areas of responsibility for this role include:
*You will lead the function and ensure of the solutions delivered enable Quilter in meeting our strategic goals and deliver well designed, operationally resilient technology solutions.
*You will be involved in setting the overall direction for the organization’s Digital platform strategy, including identifying opportunities for implementation and customization.
*You will lead and mentor the development teams, ensuring their skill development and performance.
*You will deploy teams in an effective way, balancing delivery of goals with skill development and maximise performance of the team through regular check-ins to support continuous improvement.
*Supervise the design, implementation, and deployment of Digital solutions, ensuring compliance with the organization’s specific requirements. Ensuring the quality of software solutions for Quilter.
*Manage the relationship with our flex delivery partners. Developing and maintaining a sustainable plan for Technology Suppliers engaged in delivering technology solutions, including performance, spend and status.
*Take responsibility for managing the budget for Digital development and implementation.
*You will own product delivery (via appropriate methodologies) across Run and Change, manage the lifecycle from inception, analysis, design, development, and testing through to delivery and maintenance.
*Provide effective stakeholder communication as well as acting as a key point of contact for delivery of Digital solutions and their operation.
*You will ensure a single view of Technology risks for the Digital Platform solutions exists and drives a prioritised risk mitigation process.
*Ensure the team members are clear about business priorities and performance expectations is an important part of this role.
*Drive the adoption of best practices in software development, including agile methodologies and DevOps.
*Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in digital engineering and incorporate them into the team’s strategy.
*Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the digital engineering team
About You

The successful candidate will have a strong technology background, including considerable experience managing development and technical teams and deliverables including new and emerging technologies.

A proven history within a wide variety of IT roles, including systems analysis, architecture, development, and project management would be ideal together with the understanding of technology best practices and trends together with their application within a business context.

We are looking for someone who has technical knowledge and experience within the Wealth Management industry as well as with customer facing digital solutions, who can demonstrate the following competencies: *Extensive experience leading software development and digital engineering.
*Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Next.js, and React.
*Knowledge of Azure cloud platforms and technologies
*Experience with agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
*Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
*Understanding of cybersecurity principles and practices.
*Strong people management skills with the capability to lead, coach, mentor, and influence others.
*Proven experience leading and managing the delivery of software development projects in a structured environment throughout the entire lifecycle including QA.In-depth knowledge of a variety of software development approaches and met