Senior Engineering Lead - AI-Driven Platform Architect

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

eFinancialCareers is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead to design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective. You’ll work with architects to define major components of the target architecture and roadmap, gaining senior stakeholder exposure while honing your technical leadership.

You will lead complex initiatives across multiple feature teams, ensuring end-to-end automation, security, performance, and scalability while shaping technical strategy and guiding adoption

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Java software engineering, architecture, and API/microservices using modern design patterns and AWS.
• Experience with agentic AI in user interfaces and workflow design.
• Strong history 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.
• TDD, automated testing frameworks, unit testing, mocking, and stubbing experience.
• Experience or interest in React, Python, Generative and Agentic AI, Amazon Bedrock, AI agent development, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and vector databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the most significant, complex assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams to deliver value and investor metrics.
• Define and oversee end-to-end engineering and design solutions focusing on automation, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability.
• Work with architects to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools enabling delivery of bank platforms, applications and services.
• Influence technical strategy and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities.

Skills

Java software engineering

Architecture design

API/microservices

Agile & DevOps

Technical leadership

Cloud-native & AI

Tools

AWS

Job description

eFinancialCareers is seeking a Senior Engineering Lead to design and engineer software with customer experience as the primary objective. You’ll work with architects to define major components of the target architecture and roadmap, gaining senior stakeholder exposure while honing your technical leadership.

You will lead complex initiatives across multiple feature teams, ensuring end-to-end automation, security, performance, and scalability while shaping technical strategy and guiding adoption