Staff Engineer

Compare the Market; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Compare the Market is seeking a Staff Engineer for Enterprise Services to shape technical direction and delivery. Your role will involve applying deep enterprise engineering expertise to enhance infrastructure and tooling.

You will lead initiatives, define strategies, and mentor engineers while ensuring alignment to business objectives. This hybrid role is perfect for those aiming to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience owning technical outcomes across infrastructure, platform, or enterprise tooling domains.
• Practical experience applying AI-assisted tooling and intelligent automation at enterprise scale.
• Comfortable owning technical governance of enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver end-to-end technical outcomes across the Enterprise Services domain.
• Define, evolve, and present technical strategy and domain roadmaps.
• Initiate and lead high-impact, cross-team initiatives.

Skills

Extensive experience owning technical outcomes

Demonstrated experience in enterprise platform engineering

Strong system design and architectural judgement

Experience operating within regulated environments

Experience leading enterprise vendor relationships

Tools

Azure

M365

Atlassian suite

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Description

Staff Engineer – Enterprise Services

Function: Tech

Location: Hybrid, London or Peterborough

Curious about what’s next?

So are we. Join Compare the Market and help to make financial decision making a breeze for millions.

At Compare the Market, we’re a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI. We’re building high-performing, results-driven teams with the skills, mindset, and ambition to deliver outcomes at pace. Every role here plays a part in driving our mission forward, and we create an environment where you can bring your authentic self, grow a truly characterful career, and see the direct impact of your work on the lives of our customers.

We’ve carved a meerkat-shaped niche and we’re looking for ambitious, curious thinkers who thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact environment. If you love accountability, embrace challenge, and want to make a real difference, you’ll fit right in.

We’d love you to be part of our journey.

As the Staff Engineer for Enterprise Services, you will apply deep enterprise engineering expertise to shape technical direction and delivery across Enterprise Services. Operate as a force multiplier across infrastructure, tooling, and enterprise platforms, simplifying complexity and raising engineering quality and confidence across multiple teams. Provide hands‑on technical leadership where it adds most value, partnering with engineering and operational leaders to translate business objectives into scalable, resilient, and secure services.

Some Of The Great Things You’ll Be Doing

• Own and deliver end-to-end technical outcomes across the Enterprise Services domain, ensuring alignment to business objectives and long-term sustainability.
• Define, evolve, and present technical strategy, domain roadmaps, target architecture, and engineering guardrails for enterprise platforms and services.
• Initiate and lead high-impact, cross-team initiatives that reduce systemic risk, simplify the technical estate, and accelerate delivery.
• Bring clarity to complex or ambiguous problem spaces, defining outcomes, sequencing work, and documenting trade-offs.
• Take end-to-end accountability for significant technical decisions, balancing value, quality, speed, cost, and risk.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex delivery or architectural challenges, de-risking through design, prototypes, or hands‑on intervention where appropriate.
• Raise engineering capability by mentoring senior engineers and supporting the development of staff-level thinking and judgement.
• Partner closely with engineering managers, product leaders, and operational stakeholders to align technical direction, roadmaps, and outcomes.
• Contribute to organisation-wide engineering standards and communities of practice, influencing consistency and quality through leadership rather than hierarchy.

What We’d Like To See From You

• Extensive experience owning technical outcomes across infrastructure, platform, or enterprise tooling domains.
• Demonstrated experience in enterprise platform engineering, including Azure, M365, identity, and automation technologies.
• Strong system design and architectural judgement, defining technical direction, guardrails, and patterns that influence teams beyond direct authority.
• Track record of making consequential decisions in ambiguous problem spaces and influencing senior stakeholders through to delivery.Practical experience applying AI-assisted tooling and intelligent automation at enterprise scale, including governing safe adoption.
• Experience operating within regulated environments (FCA or similar), partnering with InfoSec and Risk to maintain security and compliance posture.
• Experience leading enterprise vendor and reseller relationships, including technical assurance and commercial governance.
• Comfortable owning technical governance of enterprise platforms, including operating and improving the supporting processes.

Preferred

• Experience with enterprise collaboration and productivity platforms (Atlassian suite, ServiceNow, SharePoint).
• Understanding of ITIL-aligned service management, operational reliability, and change management processes.
• Demonstrated contribution to organisation-wide technology standards, patterns, and communities of practice.

Why Compare the Market?

We’re a business built for pace and performance. Here, you’ll be encouraged to think differently, act boldly, and deliver brilliantly in a culture that values results and rewards progress.

We believe diverse teams make better decisions, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels empowered to grow, contribute, and thrive.

If you’re ready to stretch yourself, raise the bar, and grow with a team that’s serious about performance, innovation, and purpose, we’d love to hear from you.