Engineering Lead

The Benefact Group; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension - up to 12%

Generous annual bonus scheme: on‑type?

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private healthcare and wellbeing

Charitable giving and volunteering

Study support for professional quals

Job summary

Benefact Group is seeking an Engineering Lead for our Gloucester office to balance hands-on work with technical leadership and people management. You will set direction, coach engineers, and ensure secure, scalable platforms that meet business outcomes.

You’ll work with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering and delivery leadership to align execution with strategy while contributing to complex engineering tasks.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering expertise and modern programming practices.
• Experience designing and delivering complex technical solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of secure coding, architecture, and governance.
• Fluent in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and communicate with non‑technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering, driving design, code quality and delivery planning.
• Define and govern engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices for secure, scalable solutions.
• Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams, supporting recruitment and performance management.
• Oversee delivery excellence, platform reliability, and collaboration with product and QA.
• Manage stakeholders and third-party partners with clear governance and safety standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Secure coding

DevOps & CI/CD

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure

.NET

Job description

Benefact Group are looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Gloucester office. This role balances hands‑on engineering with technical leadership and line management responsibilities. You'll be responsible for driving high-quality engineering delivery and ensuring that products are built to our Engineering Excellence standards and meet defined business outcomes. You'll set the technical direction for your area, coaching and developing engineers, embedding best practice, and ensuring that platforms and applications are secure, scalable, maintainable, and well-governed. You'll work closely with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and delivery leadership to align technical execution with strategy, while still contributing directly to complex engineering tasks.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that is committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK’s 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group - where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you’ll be doing

Provide technical leadership and hands‑on engineering expertise, driving software design, development, code quality, debugging, technical debt reduction, and delivery planning. Define and govern engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, cost‑effective, and aligned with organisational standards. Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams, fostering a high‑performing culture while supporting recruitment, mentoring, capability growth, and performance management. Drive delivery excellence and operational maturity, overseeing prioritisation, CI/CD, DevOps practices, platform reliability, SaaS integrations, and continuous improvement initiatives. Manage stakeholders, technical assets, and third‑party partners, ensuring effective communication, governance, security, lifecycle management, and adherence to engineering and quality standards.

What you’ll need to have

Strong software engineering expertise, with proficiency in modern programming languages, frameworks, and development best practices. Proven experience designing and delivering complex technical solutions, ensuring high‑quality and effective outcomes. In‑depth knowledge of secure coding, software architecture, and engineering governance, with a focus on compliance and standards. Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, driving efficient, reliable, and scalable software delivery. Effective technical leader and communicator, skilled in mentoring engineers and translating complex technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders.

What makes you stand out

Experience operating across multiple platforms or domains. Exposure to cloud‑native architectures and container‑based deployment models. Experience shaping technical strategy or influencing architectural direction. Industry awareness. Experience in Azure and .NET.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade.

We believe it's essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135‑year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better. At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone. If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

Salary

A competitive salary - let's discuss it.

Benefits & Perks

• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 7.5% and 30%
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay