Engineering Lead, Premier Banking

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; Sur place; GBP 100 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NatWest Group is seeking an Engineering Lead in Premier Banking to guide software engineering across platforms, ensuring high performance and resilience. You will lead one or more software teams, drive technical decisions with senior stakeholders and shape architectural standards for scalable systems.

You will champion CI/CD practices, cloud migration, and reusable components while mentoring engineers to deliver robust solutions in a banking environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering and architecture within SOA or microservices.
• Proven track record of leading teams and delivering complex platforms.
• Strong experience with CI/CD and deployment practices.

Responsabilités

• Lead one or more software engineering teams to deliver robust platforms.
• Define technical strategy, roadmaps and migration plans.
• Ensure architectural principles, scalability and performance.
• Coordinate with senior stakeholders on technical solutions.

Connaissances

Software engineering

Leadership

Team leadership

CI/CD

Cloud migration

Observability

Microservices

Stakeholder management

Outils

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Description du poste

Join us as an Engineering Lead in Premier Banking

• This is an exciting and challenging role that will see you leading best practice for application development and software development life cycles within the bank
• With your software development background, you’ll be delivering software components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services for the bank
• You’ll be recognised as a leader in software engineering, as you lead the wider participation in internal and industry wide events, conferences and other activities

What you'll do

As an Engineering Lead, you’ll be driving development software and tools to accomplish project and departmental objectives by converting functional and non-functional requirements into suitable designs. You’ll play a leading role in planning, developing and deploying high performance robust and resilient systems for the bank, while leading engagements with senior stakeholders to explore and suggest appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills as you manage the technical delivery of one or more software engineering teams, overseeing the quality of their work and making sure it meets the required technical standards.

You’ll Also Be

• Overseeing the definition of the technical strategy and advising on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals
• Making sure that the bank’s systems follow excellent architectural and engineering principles, and are fit for purpose
• Monitoring the technical progress against plans while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance, and providing progress updates to stakeholdersDesigning and developing reusable libraries and APIs for use across the bank
• Writing unit and integration tests within automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

You’ll come with a background in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as significant experience developing software within an SOA or microservices paradigm.

Along with development experience in one or more programming languages, you’ll bring an excellent understanding of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll Also Need

• Experience of building a new team, defining the roles, responsibilities, standards, coaching to drive performance
• Previous experience of defining CI/CD standards, engineering guardrails, deployment practices, reusable pipelines
• Experience of leading cloud migration execution, infrastructure as code, cloud standards, resiliency engineering, observability strategy
• Knowledge of testing standards, release quality, data management, along with security and operational standards, and production readiness
• Strong experience of programme level engineering co-ordination, removing blockers, managing technical dependencies and co-ordinating cross team delivery