Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect

Zohorecruit; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Leading Cyber Engineering Excellence initiatives at CLIENT in the United Kingdom, focusing on driving automation, efficiency, and standardized practices across cyber engineering teams. The role requires experience in high-performing teams and a strategic, architectural mindset.

Based in Sheffield, this engineering-led initiative targets mature, scalable cyber services and collaboration with cross-functional partners to deliver secure, reliable digital infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams in fast paced environments.
• Proven track record driving automation, efficiency, quality and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Establish engineering excellence program across Cyber and build a community of practice to drive standardisation and automation.
• Embed engineering efficiency and best practices across cyber, aligning with leads and capability owners.
• Set requirements with engineering teams to develop services that meet controls and scale for a broad customer base.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Automation

DevSecOps

Architecture

Cybersecurity engineering

Job description

Sheffield, United Kingdom | Posted on 07/31/2026

Our technology teams work closely with CLIENT ’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank.

Our multi-disciplined teams include DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back-end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

Following extensive investment across our Technology and Digital domains and with plans for continued expansion throughout 202 6 and beyond, we are currently seeking a Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect to assist in the development of a n Engineering Excellence Practi c e.

Brief overview of the business areas

Cybersecurity Technology & Engineering is responsible for fielding solutions that help defend CLIENT against a wide range of threats to the business as well as its customers, clients, partners, and staff. The team works in concert, with partner teams across CLIENT , to implement novel defensive capabilities that are effective and adaptable against a constantly evolving threat landscape. The function operates under the vision: “Enabling CLIENT to be safely successful everywhere the Firm chooses to do business”

The Engineering Excellence and Enablement Team

We are a team of multi skilled engineers / architects who design and build integration solutions for Cyber services across CLIENT . Ou r overall aim s are to improve the security of the bank by removing friction from the cyber services engineers consume , and to improve how Cyber engineers its own services . This includes working with teams to improve their DevSecOps practices, pipeline integration with cyber services, and working with the Principal Engineering community across the bank to run POC’s for improvements to existing services, or development of new services and features. This can require small optimisations or complete reimagining of the solution, and the way we achieve the overall outcomes.

What you will be doing

In addition to direct involvement with engineering teams across the bank we are also driving the adoption of engineering best practice across Cyber and are establishing an E ngineering E xcellence practice . We require an experienced engineer who has worked in high performing teams and has a broad knowledge, not just hands on development but also organisationally and has a proven track record in driving automation, efficiency quality and continuous improvement.

This is an engineering led initiative by engineers for engineers looking at how to mature and improve engineer ing practice both within individual engineering teams and horizontally across cyber.

Responsibilities

Assist in establishing the engineering excellence program across Cyber, b uilding a community of practice to drive consistency standardisation and a culture of automation and continuous improvement across teams .

E mbed engineering efficiency , improvement and engineering best practice across cyber with clarity on process, system and tools . Partnering with the Engineering leads and capability owners to ensure desired outcomes are achieved.

Work with the engineering teams in setting requirements that develop services and capabilities that meet the control s needed but also appeal to a broad customer base and enable operational efficiency throughout our value stream .