Engineering Technical Lead

Role Title: Engineering Lead

Experience: 12 to 18+ Years

Location : London (2 Days onsite/week)

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership
• Lead multiple engineering squads delivering complex banking solutions.
• Define engineering strategy, standards, and best practices.
• Drive engineering excellence, productivity improvements, and technical innovation.
• Establish development standards, code quality metrics, and governance controls.
• Mentor Technical Leads, Architects, and Senior Engineers.

Solution Delivery

• Own end-to-end technology delivery across programs and releases.
• Ensure commitments are delivered within agreed scope, timeline, quality, and budget.
• Manage dependencies across engineering, testing, DevOps, architecture, and business teams.
• Support release planning, capacity planning, and sprint governance.

Architecture & Design

• Collaborate with Enterprise and Solution Architects on technology roadmaps.
• Review solution designs to ensure scalability, resilience, maintainability, and security.
• Drive API-first, cloud-native, microservices-based engineering approaches.
• Ensure adherence to Bank's engineering and security standards.

Engineering Quality

• Champion test automation, code quality, security scanning, and performance engineering.
• Drive CI/CD adoption and DevSecOps practices.
• Monitor engineering metrics, technical debt, and platform stability.
• Improve system reliability, observability, and operational readiness.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary technology contact for business and delivery stakeholders.
• Present engineering updates, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Customer Journey Managers, Delivery Managers, and Architects.
• Support governance forums and executive status reporting.

Team & People Leadership

• Lead distributed teams across multiple locations.
• Support hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and capability building.
• Conduct performance reviews and career development conversations.
• Drive a high-performance engineering culture.

Risk & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with Bank's governance, audit, security, and risk requirements.
• Manage operational risks and technology controls.
• Support production readiness reviews and regulatory initiatives.

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

Banking Domain Knowledge

Preferred experience in:

• Retail Banking
• Commercial Banking
• Digital Banking
• Identity & Authentication
• Customer Journeys
• Payments
• Lending Platforms
• Open Banking
• Risk & Compliance
• Fraud & Security

Key Deliverables

• Engineering Roadmaps
• Solution Design Reviews
• Release Readiness Assessments
• Engineering Governance Packs
• Platform Modernization Plans
• Capacity & Delivery Plans
• Risk and Dependency Management Reports
• Technical Debt Reduction Plans
• Operational Stability Metrics

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