Head of FinTech Platform Engineering

WRK digital

Manchester

Hybrid

GBP 119,000 - 161,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Additional flexible benefits

Job summary

WRK digital is partnering with a global FinTech to appoint a Head of Engineering for its product platforms. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on architectural influence to modernise and scale mission-critical platforms serving global transactions, onboarding, risk, and financial operations.

You will shape engineering strategy, build capability, and drive security, resilience and regulatory compliance across a distributed global team.

Qualifications

5+ years of hands on experience within software and product engineering.
Experience within Financial Services, FinTech, Payments or other regulated sectors.
3+ years leading engineering teams responsible for modern, business-critical financial platforms.
Direct ownership of end-to-end software engineering delivery, spanning development, cloud infrastructure, APIs and platform engineering.
Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
Strong knowledge of modern engineering practices, CI/CD, automation and DevOps.
Experience driving cloud transformation and modern architecture initiatives.
Knowledge of operational resilience, security and regulatory requirements within financial services.
Technical expertise within Microsoft technologies, particularly .NET and Azure, would be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the engineering strategy for a portfolio of proprietary financial technology products.
Lead and develop a growing international engineering organisation.
Drive modern software engineering practices across product development, platform engineering and cloud services.
Partner with Product teams to align engineering delivery with strategic objectives and business outcomes.
Champion engineering excellence through automation, observability and data-driven decision making.
Drive improvements across deployment frequency, lead time, reliability and engineering performance metrics.
Lead adoption of modern architectures including cloud-native, microservices and event-driven systems.
Establish and mature DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering practices across the function.
Develop scalable engineering processes that support growth whilst maintaining agility.
Build strong relationships across Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance and Executive Leadership teams.
Provide technical leadership for strategic initiatives including platform modernisation, API development and operational resilience.
Support the continued growth of a globally distributed engineering function and external technology partnerships.