Lab Engineering Lead - Prudential & Analytics Platform

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lab Engineering Lead to oversee the engineering lifecycle of a pivotal cloud platform. This role will involve leading a team to design and optimize cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while fostering innovation. You will collaborate with diverse teams to enhance data processing and analytics capabilities, driving continuous improvement and strategic direction. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and inclusion, and contribute to impactful projects that shape the future of risk analytics and regulatory compliance.

Benefits

Generous pension contributions

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Flexible benefits

30+ days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in leading cloud-based data platforms, especially with GCP.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team to build and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Oversee project delivery ensuring alignment with risk management objectives.

Skills

Cloud-based data platforms

GCP expertise

Cloud architecture

Data engineering

BigQuery

Dataflow

Programming languages (Python, Java, Scala)

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Leadership skills

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree (optional)

Tools

Terraform

Job description

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Job Description:

The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Risk strategy, enabled by the Prudential & Analytics (P&A) Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group.

P&A ensures Regulatory compliance for all activities within its scope and transforms regulatory and analytical capabilities across key technology enablers including data, modelling, reporting, and infrastructure. The goal is to deliver regulatory requirements efficiently while simplifying our system landscape and reducing costs.

About this opportunity:

A great opportunity has arisen to join the P&A platform as a Lab Engineering Lead. You will oversee all aspects of the engineering lifecycle, from design to implementation and optimization, ensuring infrastructure supports critical regulatory, prudential, and risk analytics functions. You will collaborate with cloud architects, data scientists, and risk officers to deliver a robust, scalable, and compliant platform that meets the bank’s needs. The role involves shaping the vision for the Lab and setting strategic direction for engineering teams to demonstrate thought leadership across the entire lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Engineering Leadership: Lead the engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the end-to-end infrastructure, including transforming legacy platforms and managing GCP-based data infrastructure.
2. Cloud Infrastructure Design and Optimization: Design scalable, high-performance cloud infrastructure on GCP supporting real-time data processing, analytics, and compliance. Implement Infrastructure-as-Code practices using tools like Terraform.
3. End-to-End Engineering Delivery: Oversee project delivery from requirements to deployment, ensuring solutions align with risk management and analytics objectives. Collaborate with DevOps and security teams to automate pipelines and testing.
4. Data Infrastructure and Analytics Integration: Work with data scientists and risk analysts to build data pipelines supporting risk analytics, stress testing, and regulatory reporting, ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance.
5. Security, Governance, and Compliance: Ensure infrastructure complies with regulations (GDPR, Basel III/IV, IFRS 9). Implement security controls, encryption, and auditing following DevSecOps principles.
6. Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration: Engage with product owners, risk teams, and architects to gather requirements and ensure alignment with cloud strategy and risk framework. Communicate progress to leadership.
7. Continuous Innovation and Improvement: Stay updated on GCP services and industry best practices. Drive adoption of new tools to enhance platform performance, security, and scalability.

Key Qualifications:

• Extensive experience leading cloud-based data platforms, preferably with GCP expertise.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, data engineering, and big data technologies (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub).
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.
• Experience with microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure best practices and digital transformation.
• Familiarity with banking risk management and regulatory frameworks (optional but advantageous).
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

We offer:

• Generous pension contributions, annual bonus, share schemes, and flexible benefits.
• 30+ days holiday, wellbeing initiatives, parental leave policies.

If you're ready to make a positive impact, learn, grow, and thrive, apply today!

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, creating a workplace where everyone can make a difference.