Senior Engineering Lead

Royal Bank of Scotland; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead to design and engineer software with customer experience as the top objective. You will work with architects to define major components of the target architecture and roadmap, while gaining senior stakeholder exposure and strengthening leadership skills.

You will lead significant, complex assignments, coordinate feature teams, and ensure technical journeys support the targets and investor metrics.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Java software engineering, architecture, and API/microservices design.
• Strong track record delivering scalable, resilient solutions within Agile and DevOps environments.
• Significant experience leading engineering teams in complex matrix environments.
• Knowledge of modern software development, automation, cloud-native solutions, and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define, create and govern engineering and design solutions with end-to-end automation, resilience, security and performance.
• Work with platform or feature teams to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools for bank platforms and services.
• Develop architecture models and roadmaps to meet business and technical requirements.
• Influence enterprise-level architecture strategy and identify transformational opportunities.

Skills

Java software engineering

Architecture design

APIs & microservices

DevOps

Agile delivery

Leadership

Automation

Performance optimization

TDD

Cloud-native

Tools

AWS

React

Python

Bedrock

RAG

Job description

Join us as a Senior Engineering Lead

This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective

With your software development background, you'll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap

You'll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills

What you'll do

As a Senior Engineering Lead, you'll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

You'll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with deep expertise in Java software engineering, application architecture, and API/microservices design. You'll have a strong track record of delivering scalable, resilient solutions within Agile and DevOps environments, combining technical leadership with hands-on engineering excellence to drive innovation and engineering best practice across teams.

You'll work closely with senior stakeholders to shape technical strategy, translate complex business needs into effective solutions, and support the adoption of emerging technologies. You'll be passionate about modern software development, automation, cloud-native solutions, and the opportunities that LLMs and Agentic AI can bring to financial services.

You'll also bring:

• Significant experience in Java software engineering, architecture, and designing APIs and microservices using modern design patterns and AWS
• Extensive knowledge of customer journey UIs, with experience or awareness of integrating Agentic AI into user interfaces and workflow design
• A strong background leading engineering teams in complex matrix environments, defining and delivering technical strategy, and influencing senior stakeholders
• Expertise in DevOps, Agile delivery, automation, scalability, performance optimisation, resilience, virtualisation, and engineering best practices
• Hands-on experience with test-driven development (TDD), automated testing frameworks, unit testing, mocking, and stubbing
• Experience or interest in technologies such as React, Python, Generative and Agentic AI, Amazon Bedrock, AI agent development, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and vector databases

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date: 15/09/2026

Ways of Working:Hybrid