Platform Engineer Lead

JR United Kingdom; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global IT services and consulting firm as a Platform Engineering Lead, shaping the future of modern banking technology. You will provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and drive an innovative culture within one of the UK's largest banking groups, with a competitive salary and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Annual bonus up to £10,000

Pension scheme with 6% employer contribution

Fully funded training programs

Private medical insurance

Life assurance & Income protection

Car Lease Schemes with discounts

Employee assistance programmes

Qualifications

• Experience developing modern tech applications.
• Prior experience mentoring large technical teams.
• Expertise in public cloud and engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Mentoring high-performing engineering teams.
• Driving technical leadership and engineering excellence.
• Contributing to delivery governance aligning to the bank's QBR.

Skills

Leadership

Innovation

Public Cloud

DevSecOps

Stakeholder Management

Technical Debt Management

Agile Mindset

Job description

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Join a global IT services and consulting leader as a Platform Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in delivering transformative technology within one of the UK's most respected banking groups. This is your opportunity to shape the future of modern banking technology through leadership, innovation, and cutting-edge engineering practices. Salary up to £100k plus bonus with offices in London, Leeds and Edinburgh and potential for hybrid working.

In this role you will be at the heart of technology strategy, mentoring high-performing engineering teams focused on delivering modern, cloud-native applications across digital platforms. You will drive technical leadership, enabling DevSecOps culture and contribute to delivery of governance aligning to the bank's QBR.

Responsibilities:

• Champion knowledge share across and within labs.
• Drive technical leadership, engineering excellence, required interventions strategy and capability relevant to platform priorities and focus
• Contribute towards delivery governance aligning to the banks QBR, big room planning, agile events and ceremonies

Essential skills:

• Experience in developing modern tech apps, channel experience design and build
• Prior experience in mentoring a large technical team and evangelising emerging tech practices and trends
• Innovation, strategy and thought leadership
• Experience/expertise to monitor/measure/improve engineering maturity amongst the feature teams
• Public Cloud experience
• Engineering Leadership to drive engineering culture among the team
• Experience in driving engineering in “product based’ organisation and agile mindset
• Experience in driving DevSecOps and Automation culture among the engineering team
• Insurance domain experience is highly desired
• Tech Dependency management, stakeholder management skills and storytelling abilities
• Tech Debt and Risk management

Organisation is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally.

• Alongside base salary of £90,000-£100,000 you will receive an annual bonus of up to £10,000
• Pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, previous pension can be transferred
• Fully funded training programs
• Private medical insurance (inc. dental & eye care and pre-existing condition covered)
• Life assurance & Income protection
• Car Lease Schemes (inc. Jaguar Land Rover discounts)
• Additional benefits including GAYE (Give as you Earn), Staff discounts for groceries, utilities, electronics and Employee Assistance Programme (Family/Finances/Mental wellbeing)

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

You will find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join (these are optional). Their diversity, inclusion and social activities include 12 employee networks as well as health & wellness initiatives and sports events and the organisation sponsors the London Marathon.

Further information:

• This role is office based across either London, Edinburgh or Leeds, however options for hybrid working can be discussed. Please ensure you are able to commute to these locations
• There is no sponsorship provided for this vacancy

If you're an IT professional with a strong expertise across Platform Engineering and ready for a challenge to make significant impact at the UK's largest digital bank, then apply now or contact Zymante Gintalaite in confidence.