Engineering Lead, Premier Banking

Join us as an Engineering Lead in Premier Banking
This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development and software development life cycles within the bank
With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
You’ll be recognised as a leader in software engineering, as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities
What you'll do
As an Engineering Lead, you’ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You’ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, while leading engagements with senior stakeholders to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, overseeing the quality of their work and making sure it meets the required technical standards.
You’ll also be:
Overseeing the definition of the technical strategy and advising on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals
Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholders
Designing and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality
The skills you'll need
You’ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm.
Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, you’ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.
You’ll also need:
Experience of building a new team, defining the roles, responsibilities, standards, coaching to drive performance
Previous experience of defining CI/CD standards, engineering guardrails, deployment practices, reusable pipelines
Experience of leading cloud migration execution, infrastructure as code, cloud standards, resiliency engineering, observability strategy
Knowledge of testing standards, release quality, data management, along with security and operational standards, and production readiness
Strong experience of programme level engineering co-ordination, removing blockers, managing technical dependencies and co-ordinating cross team delivery
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
28/10/2026
Ways of Working:Hybrid

Skills
Microservices, CI/CD