Engineering Lead Benefact Group · Gloucester ·

Benefact Group plc; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Group Pension up to 12%

Bonus 7.5–30% on target

28 days leave + holidays

Private healthcare & life assurance

Charity grant £200 annually

Volunteer day per year

Employee Assistance Programme

Study support for qualifications

Virtual GP access

Enhanced parental pay

Job summary

Benefact Group is seeking an Engineering Lead in Gloucester to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership and line management. You’ll set direction, coach engineers, and ensure secure, scalable platforms aligned with business outcomes.

You’ll work with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and delivery leadership to drive strategy and deliver complex tasks, while hands-on coding remains a core part of your role.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills with modern languages and practices.
• Experience designing and delivering complex technical solutions.
• Knowledge of secure coding, architecture, and governance.
• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automation.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise, driving design, development, code quality, debugging, debt reduction and delivery planning.
• Define and govern engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices for scalable, secure and cost-effective solutions.
• Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams, supporting recruitment, growth and performance management.
• Drive delivery excellence and operational maturity across CI/CD, DevOps, platform reliability and SaaS integrations.
• Manage stakeholders, technical assets, and third-party partners with clear governance and security standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Complex solutions

Secure coding

DevOps CI/CD

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure

.NET

Job description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester

About the role

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 will 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 will 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’s 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.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme: on‑target bonus between 7.5% and30%
• 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

About us

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*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

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.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26