Engineering Lead – Azure / Microsoft Stack – Financial Services
Posted 1 day ago by Alexander Ash Consulting
£150,000 Per year
Outside
Hybrid
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Engineering Lead role focuses on providing technical leadership and managing engineering operations for a financial services firm transitioning to Azure. The position involves overseeing the migration of on-premise infrastructure to the cloud while modernizing engineering practices and team skillsets. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in engineering leadership within financial services and a strong background in Microsoft technologies. This role is hybrid, requiring three days in the London office.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and day-to-day management of engineering operations across infrastructure, cloud, security, and software engineering.
- Drive the Azure migration from a technical perspective.
- Implement changes in ways of working, skillsets, tooling, and automation.
- Oversee multi-disciplined engineering teams of 25+ personnel.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience within financial services.
- Strong knowledge of the Microsoft technology stack including Azure, Windows, SQL, and Fabric.
- Experience with on-premise to Azure migration.
- Technical leadership and delivery management experience.
- Degree educated or higher from a leading academic institution.
Salary (Rate): £600/day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Engineering Lead – Azure / Microsoft Stack – Financial Services
A financial services firm are modernising their technology stack and as such are migrating existing on-premise infrastructure to Azure and modernising ways of working within engineering operations. You will provide technical leadership and day-to-day engineering operations management across infrastructure, cloud, security, and software engineering, driving both the Azure migration from a technical perspective, and the changes in ways of working, skillsets, tooling and automation.
You should apply for this role if you are/have:
- 5+ years engineering leadership experience within financial services
- Strong Microsoft technology stack including Azure, Windows, SQL and Fabric
- On premise to Azure migration experience is essential
- Technical leadership and technical delivery management experience
- Experience overseeing 25+ person multi-disciplined engineering teams
- Degree educated or higher from a leading academic institution
This is a £600-700/day outside IR35 role. Initially for six months. Hybrid, 3 days in London office.