FinTech Platform Engineering Leader

WRK Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension

Additional flexible benefits

Job summary

WRK digital is seeking a Principal Technologist to lead a portfolio of fintech platforms, shaping technology strategy and guiding platform modernisation. Join a hybrid Manchester team, influencing architecture decisions while staying hands-on enough to review designs and support engineering challenges.

You'll work closely with the CTO and product teams to drive engineering excellence, DevSecOps adoption, and reliable delivery of critical financial services technology.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in software and product engineering roles.
• 3–5 years in Financial Services, FinTech, Payments or regulated environments.
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for modern, business‑critical products or platforms.
• Direct experience across software engineering, cloud platforms, APIs and platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across a portfolio of critical financial services platforms.
• Help define and evolve engineering strategy, standards and best practices.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to align technology decisions with business outcomes.
• Guide platform modernisation, API development and cloud‑native engineering initiatives.
• Support adoption of modern architectures, including microservices and event‑driven systems.
• Drive improvements across engineering performance, quality and operational resilience.
• Champion DevSecOps, automation, CI/CD and engineering excellence practices.
• Mentor engineers, technical leads and engineering managers.
• Contribute to AI adoption and responsible use of emerging technologies across teams.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on technology direction, delivery and risk.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on engineering

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

.NET

Azure

Microservices

API design

Influence

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

WRK digital is seeking a Principal Technologist to lead a portfolio of fintech platforms, shaping technology strategy and guiding platform modernisation. Join a hybrid Manchester team, influencing architecture decisions while staying hands-on enough to review designs and support engineering challenges.

You'll work closely with the CTO and product teams to drive engineering excellence, DevSecOps adoption, and reliable delivery of critical financial services technology.