Engineering Lead

Job Responsibilities

• Provide engineering leadership and technical oversight across multiple delivery teams within the Risk & Controls workstream.
• Support the enhancement, modernisation, and ongoing development of BB Applications.
• Define, implement, and enforce engineering standards, development processes, risk controls, and architecture best practices.
• Ensure engineering teams adhere to coding standards, deployment practices, security requirements, operational controls, and governance frameworks.
• Assess the impact of regulatory changes on applications, engineering processes, operational controls, and delivery practices.
• Work closely with risk, compliance, audit, architecture, and product teams to ensure technology solutions meet enterprise and regulatory requirements.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for engineering challenges, controls-related issues, and critical production incidents.
• Support complex integrations across enterprise systems, risk platforms, controls frameworks, and external applications.
• Design and guide implementation of scalable integration solutions across APIs, middleware, event-driven platforms, and external systems.
• Drive best practices across software engineering, DevOps, resiliency, observability, operational excellence, audit readiness, and governance.
• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, technical design assessments, and controls compliance reviews.
• Provide mentoring, coaching, and hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams.
• Contribute directly to troubleshooting, prototyping, implementation, and technical delivery activities where required.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across engineering practices, controls frameworks, and tooling.

Key Requirements

• Proven experience as an Engineering Lead, Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, or similar senior technical leadership role.
• Strong background in backend software engineering and enterprise integration.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, middleware solutions, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms, risk systems, controls frameworks, and business-critical applications.
• Strong understanding of regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements within banking or financial services environments.
• Experience supporting applications impacted by regulatory, governance, or compliance-driven changes.
• Knowledge of technology risk management, audit requirements, operational controls, and highly governed delivery environments.
• Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps best practices.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or other modern backend programming languages.
• Experience building resilient, scalable, secure, and operationally mature enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of testing strategies, software quality assurance, secure coding practices, and release governance.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across distributed systems and integrations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, governance, and leadership abilities.
• Ability to remain hands-on while providing technical leadership across multiple teams.

Desirable

• Experience within Banking, Financial Services, or large-scale transformation programmes.
• Experience supporting regulated applications, risk technology platforms, or compliance-driven initiatives.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, and control monitoring frameworks.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Experience supporting geographically distributed teams.
• Exposure to AI-enabled engineering tools, automation frameworks, or developer productivity tooling.