Engineering Lead

Job Description

End Date Monday 02 January 2023 Salary Range £70,784 - £88,480 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary Aim to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high qualitysoftware and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. They will be an advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams,identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deepdomain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a player-coach model. Job DescriptionEngineering Lead - Financial Services - Domestic Payments - Edinburgh - Hybrid Working. Salary £70,784 - £106,176 (depending on experience),+ 4% Flex fund, Are you an Engineering Lead with payments domain experience looking for a new challengeWant to be at the forefront of change for UK domestic payments and deliver the best Payment solutions and services using modern cloud based technologies for ourcustomers and business; with lots of opportunity to develop your knowledge, add real value and influence the delivery of our strategic roadmap...Furthermore, join a team passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. As part of this we encourage colleagues to be flexible in their ways of workingincluding whereand when you workso you can balance your personal situation with the needs of the business. Then read on...Reasonable adjustments can be also accommodated in our Recruitment processes, just let us know. Were simply committed to building an inclusive environment where colleagues can be themselves and be their best as a result! Our Mission In the Payments Services Platform (PSP) our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money expertly, quickly and securely. The Payments Services Platform sits withinBusiness & Commercial Banking and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group. About the role Were looking to recruit an Engineering Lead who will design solutions and guide our colleagues from multidisciplinary teams in our Domestic Payments Lab, to build the best outcomes for our 30 million customers. Youll be empowered to support the designand development of solutions that face into the constantly evolving needs of our customers and collaborate with others to make them a reality. Heres how youll make a difference:

• Form the quorum of our design and decision forum, and support colleagues with advice based on your expertise
• Develop technical strategies to transform and modernise our lab
• Identify and establish relationships with senior leaders to influence and enable the implementation of your strategies
• Supporting the management of key stakeholders in the business, and also 3rd parties we partner with
• Were moving to utilise private and public cloud so youll be heavily involved in our move for this area of the business
• Oversee multiple feature teams that must define and drive their own solutions and assist in daily delivery activity and defend your recommendations at senior forums
• Educate both technical and non-technical colleagues about DevOps topics and articulate reasoning behind key technical decisions

What we need from you:

• Experience within a senior management role in an Engineering function, ideally a background within software development.
• Demonstrable team leading and LM skills working within an agile delivery cadence
• Strong Software Engineering background and deep knowledge of agile development practices as well as end to end technical solution design across the entire software development life-cycle from inception, through build to production
• Have a history of technical leadership within a solution architecture domain and have previously delivered microservices to production
• Able to decipher and analyze business and technical requirements to provide end to end design and workable solution options (ones that developers/engineers can take forward)
• Ability to clearly articulate designs and design options to varying stakeholders as well as providing direction and support to various IT teams throughout a project lifecycle ensuring approved design is implemented as designed
• Previous experience of working within a larger team of architects at programme level as well as being able to work alone on single work packages
• Ability to generate end to end design artefacts that adhere to architectural and quality standards and policies which meet business, application, infrastructure and data requirements

There are also desirable skills which would be advantageous if you had them, but please still apply if you dont!

• Appreciation and acknowledgement of the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience and supportability.
• Exposure to modern web development technologies (HTML5/JavaScript, caching) and approaches (pragmatic view on Single Page / Multi-Page Applications, Web Components)
• Can think outside of the box in delivering its strategic objectives rather than just responding to a pre-defined request
• Exposure to delivering services through Continuous Delivery.
• Exposure to UK and International Payment schemes as well as ISO20022 enablement

Whats in it for youWhatever your aspirations, you can expect excellent benefits, personal development, and a career thats enriching and full of opportunity. Soun