Senior Director of Engineering

Formula.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 198,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus & Shares

London onsite

Job summary

Formula. is partnering with a major global finance business to appoint a Senior Director of Engineering to lead its engineering organisation across multiple territories.

This leadership seat sits at the centre of a software-led transformation, modernising technology behind every customer touchpoint across markets with their own regulatory regimes. You will set technology direction, drive innovation, and lead a group of 100+ engineers, product and architecture professionals within a 1,000+ global

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technology delivery across multiple markets.
• Track record in regulatory-compliant and data-privacy enabled architectures.
• Experience managing 100+ engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with cloud-native, API-first modernization.
• Ability to set technology direction across borders.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering delivery across European markets.
• Set tech direction for customer touchpoints.
• Drive modernisation and tech debt reduction.
• Oversee cloud, AI, and DevSecOps strategy.
• Partner with Product on OKRs and prioritisation.
• Manage multi-million budgets and vendor relations.

Skills

Technology leadership

Cloud-native architecture

DevSecOps

API-led modernization

Regulatory compliance

Budget management

Vendor management

Tools

Spring Boot

GraphQL/Apollo

React/Angular

Salesforce

AEM/Adobe

Job description

We have partnered with a major global finance business on the appointment of a Senior Director of Engineering to lead its engineering organisation across multiple territories.

This is a newly shaped leadership seat at the centre of an ambitious, software-led transformation, delivered across markets that each carry their own financial-services regulation, with a mandate to modernise the technology behind every customer touchpoint.

You'll set the technology direction and drive innovation across a large, always-on estate spanning several European markets, leading a team of over 100 engineers, product and architecture professionals within a global tech organisation of over 1,000 people.

What you'll lead:

• Engineering delivery across multiple European territories, aligning teams and priorities across markets and time zones
• Technology that meets differing financial-services and data-protection regimes country by country - from GDPR through to local regulatory and compliance obligations in each market
• The end-to-end technology direction across customer-facing platforms - contact centre and telephony, IVR, dealer finance tooling, mobile and Salesforce estates
• A significant modernisation and technical-debt agenda across the full stack
• Cloud, AI and DevSecOps strategy on Google Cloud Platform, with an API-first, cloud-native way of working
• A matched-pair partnership with Product on quarterly prioritisation and OKR delivery
• Resilience, security and always-on continuity across a 24/7 environment
• Multi-million technology budgets, vendor negotiation and capex/opex planning
• Team growth, coaching, succession and inclusive culture-building at scale

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience owning technology delivery across several European countries, each with its own regulatory and compliance landscape
• A strong track record of building and running systems that satisfy varied, jurisdiction-specific financial-services regulation and data-privacy law
• Proven years in increasingly senior technology leadership roles on large-scale consumer programmes
• Track record leading engineering organisations of 100+ people across more than one country
• Depth across cloud-native, headless and API-led modernisation (SpringBoot microservices, federated GraphQL/Apollo, React/Angular; AEM/Adobe and Salesforce exposure a plus)
• Strong DevSecOps grounding and a compelling, well-communicated technical vision
• Comfort operating in a matrixed enterprise where commercial and regulatory pressures pull in different directions across markets
• Ownership of large technology budgets and vendor relationships

The Package:

• Base: Up to £220,000
• Strong Bonus & Shares offering
• 3-4 days onsite, London based

This is a complex leadership role rather than a pure 'modernise the stack' brief. The scope will suit a leader operating at, or ready to step up to, divisional-CTO level.

Due to the high volume of applications, not all applicants will receive feedback.