Engineering Lead – Greenfield FinTech Platform

Brookwood Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Brookwood Recruitment Ltd is partnering with a leading banking organisation undergoing a major technology transformation. The Engineering Lead will act as the senior technical leader within a high-performing squad, owning architecture and hands-on delivery of greenfield systems, APIs and platforms in a cloud-native environment.

You will validate AI-generated code and outputs, set engineering standards, drive CI/CD, observability and production readiness, and coach engineers while collaborating

Qualifications

• Strong engineering pedigree and architecture capability.
• Experience in fintech or large-scale technology environments.
• Hands-on engineering in production systems and cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of a high-performing engineering squad.
• Design and build greenfield systems, services, APIs and platforms.
• Lead system design across cloud, application, data and integration layers.
• Validate and challenge AI-generated code, tests and architectural solutions.
• Ensure AI-generated outputs are secure, scalable and technically correct.
• Define guardrails for AI-assisted engineering and use AI to boost productivity.
• Set engineering standards and guardrails while enabling rapid delivery.
• Remain hands-on to influence decisions and solve complex problems.
• Drive CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience and production engineering.
• Coach engineers and raise overall technical standards.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to deliver robust solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture ownership

Cloud-native engineering

Autonomous teams

Tools

Java

React / React Native

Azure / AKS

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Kong

Databricks

Infrastructure as Code

Modern CI/CD

API and integration architecture

Observability and SLOs

Production monitoring and incident response

AI-assisted software engineering tools

Job description

Brookwood Recruitment Ltd is partnering with a leading banking organisation undergoing a major technology transformation. The Engineering Lead will act as the senior technical leader within a high-performing squad, owning architecture and hands-on delivery of greenfield systems, APIs and platforms in a cloud-native environment.

You will validate AI-generated code and outputs, set engineering standards, drive CI/CD, observability and production readiness, and coach engineers while collaborating