JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: Lead Software Engineer

ABOUT US

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU?

• A technical lead, who takes ownership of delivery and is willing to help grow and guide engineers to form successful teams.
• Experience of leading and embedding engineering transformation initiatives across teams.
• An understanding of how Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment operates and can be applied in a modern Engineering environment.
• Proven experience in hands-on software engineering using a broad range of technologies including those listed below.
• Recent experience designing and developing complex Aptitude Studio, Oracle PL/SQL and Unix Bash/Korne Shell components for a financial services organisation.
• CI/CD/DevOps tooling experience including Jenkins and Urban Code Deploy.
• Proven debugging skills and lead by example attitude
• Design Patterns.
• Agile software development approach.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and an enthusiasm for advocating best practice across Product & Engineering.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define, communicate and implement our engineering strategy across the Lab. This includes, focusing on patterns, methods, and approaches; working with the teams to implement and embed within our end-to-end engineering activity.
• Play an active part in the Engineering Leadership team, supporting others & directly reporting into the Engineering Lead (Band G) for the Lab
• Simplify and modernise our technology estate.
• Leading, inspiring, and managing individuals to continually improve and develop their engineering knowledge and capabilities; working in collaboration with other leaders to maximise the benefit of this capability within our teams.
• Helping to bridge the gap between Architecture & Software Engineering bringing the theory to life!
• Working closely with the product owner to shape and deliver solutions to business problems