Engineering Team Lead
Role Title: Engineering Lead
Location: London, UK
Employment Type: Inside IR35 Contract
Client: Wipro
Primary Skills
Engineering Leadership + Cloud & Platform Engineering + Banking Domain
Secondary Skills
Microservices & APIs + DevOps / CI-CD + Agile Delivery
Tertiary Skills
Stakeholder Management + Architecture Governance + Team Leadership
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to drive end-to-end engineering delivery
across strategic Banking Group initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for
leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams, providing technical direction, driving
engineering excellence, ensuring delivery quality, and managing stakeholder relationships
across business, architecture, operations, and delivery functions.
The role requires strong hands-on knowledge of modern engineering practices, cloud-native
platforms, microservices architecture, DevOps, security, and large-scale transformation
programs within the banking domain. Engineering Leads are expected to foster a culture of
innovation, automation, quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence while
ensuring successful delivery of business outcomes.
Qualifications
∙Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Technology.
∙12+ years of software engineering experience.
∙5+ years leading large engineering teams.
∙Experience delivering large-scale banking transformation programs.
∙Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
∙Experience working in Agile / SAFe environments.
Preferred Certifications
∙AWS Solution Architect
∙Azure Architect Expert
∙Kubernetes Certification
∙SAFe Agilist
∙TOGAF
∙DevOps Certification
Required Technical Skills
Engineering & Architecture
∙Java / GoLang / .NET / Python
∙Microservices Architecture
∙REST APIs
∙Event-Driven Architecture
∙Domain Driven Design (DDD)
Cloud Platforms
∙AWS / Azure
∙Kubernetes
∙Docker
∙OpenShift
DevOps & Automation
∙Jenkins
∙GitHub / Bitbucket
∙Terraform
∙Ansible
∙CI/CD Pipelines
Engineering Practices
∙TDD / BDD
∙Secure Coding
∙Performance Engineering
∙Observability & Monitoring
∙SRE Principles
Tools
∙JIRA
∙Confluence
∙Azure DevOps
∙Splunk
∙Dynatrace
∙SonarQube
