Spencer Rose are urgently seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to work for our Banking client for a minimum 6 month contract (extensions highly likely), to start ASAP.
Start: ASAP (allowing up to 2 weeks for vetting and onboarding)
Day Rate: £450pd Inside IR35
Hybrid: 2 days a week in the office
Duration: 6 months initially
- 5+ years leading large engineering teams.
- Experience delivering large-scale banking transformation programs.
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
- Experience working in Agile/SAFe environments.
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to drive end-to-end engineering delivery across strategic Banking initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams, providing technical direction, driving engineering excellence, ensuring delivery quality, and managing stakeholder relationships across business, architecture, operations, and delivery functions.
The role requires strong hands-on knowledge of modern engineering practices, cloud-native platforms, microservices architecture, DevOps, security, and large-scale transformation programs within the banking domain. Engineering Leads are expected to foster a culture of innovation, automation, quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence while ensuring successful delivery of business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead multiple engineering squads delivering complex banking solutions.
- Define engineering strategy, standards, and best practices.
- Drive engineering excellence, productivity improvements, and technical innovation.
- Establish development standards, code quality metrics, and governance controls.
- Mentor Technical Leads, Architects, and Senior Engineers.
- Own end-to-end technology delivery across programs and releases.
- Ensure commitments are delivered within agreed scope, timeline, quality, and budget.
- Manage dependencies across engineering, testing, DevOps, architecture, and business teams.
- Support release planning, capacity planning, and sprint governance.
- Collaborate with Enterprise and Solution Architects on technology roadmaps.
- Review solution designs to ensure scalability, resilience, maintainability, and security.
- Drive API-first, cloud-native, microservices-based engineering approaches.
- Ensure adherence to LBG engineering and security standards.
- Champion test automation, code quality, security scanning, and performance engineering.
- Drive CI/CD adoption and DevSecOps practices.
- Monitor engineering metrics, technical debt, and platform stability.
- Improve system reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
The interview process will take place from next week, so APPLY NOW for immediate review.