Join us as an Engineering Director
- Take on a high profile and influential role working with internal and external stakeholders to drive visibility and support for our engineering strategy
- We'll look to you to manage the strategic end-to-end engineering requirements for a business unit
- You'll be leading teams to meet key strategic milestones by driving vision and having a holistic view of the business
What you'll do
As an Engineering Director, you'll be delivering key engineering milestones that support our Banking as a Service strategic commitments. You'll foster a culture of collaboration and quality to make sure our engineering, security engineering and architecture functions build well-architected, extensible, scalable and resilient banking systems and customer propositions.
You'll also be:
- Overseeing the management of your engineering group and acting as the highest authority on high-level and complex decisions within the function
- Contributing to the development of a bank-wide engineering strategy and overseeing the execution of plans
- Responsible for the software delivery of all engineering teams, collaborating with key colleagues to define roadmap and plans
- Developing and coaching colleagues within the engineering business area
- Proactively planning for the growth and succession of others as the bank develops
The skills you'll need
We're looking for a technical expert with the ability to understand complex technology architectures and secure software development lifecycle. You'll bring experience of leading large engineering teams in a high-tech finance environment, paired with analytical and quantitative knowledge, and the ability to use data to make decisions.
In addition, you'll need:
- Experience of leading change initiatives through your teams, with the ability to collaborate
- Technical knowledge relevant to software engineering, such as coding standards, continuous integration or continuous deployment, platform engineering, and operational excellence
- Experience of working with different areas of the business and presenting at board level
- The ability to operate at a range of levels in terms of big picture strategic thinking, thought leadership and data and analysis
- Experience of working in cloud based environments
- Experience of leading local and offshore teams