Engineering Lead

End Date Thursday 27 February 2025 We Support Flexible Working – Click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working 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 quality software 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 deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model Job Description Software Engineer Band F If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong! We’re an innovative, constantly evolving 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 We’re the Business and Commercial Banking division, and we work across several business platform areas. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services to millions of citizens across the UK, which they rely upon day-to-day, and especially in their time of need The Engineer/Lead will work alongside the Team Product Owner managing delivery for the team by leading others. The Grade F Engineer/Technical Lead will work alongside the Team Product Owner managing delivery for the team by leading others. They will operate as co-leader with the Team PO with involvement in decision making and planning of Product roadmap. Advocate for best use of tech and expert in Agile practices Daily focus for this role? Design, develop, and maintain complex software applications. Writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices

• Lead code reviews and all aspects of technical delivery to ensure code quality and share knowledge.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Identify and implement best practices for software development.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills to resolve complex technical issues and bugs.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers.
• Strong understanding of security principles and secure coding practices
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure timely delivery by manging tasks and priorities effectively.
• Communicate effectively with team and stakeholders.
• Accountable for custodianship governance activities on technical assets that they own.

Our Software Engineers should have skills and experience that enable them to design innovative solutions in an increasingly digital world. Understanding how modern software applications are built and delivered is key In terms of personal skills, you’ll want to be a keen and comfortable communicator who is happy working with a wide range of technical and non-technical colleagues What will you get in return? The ultimate measure of success is working software in production and a team that is continually challenged, motivated, mentored and supported where necessary. So, if being at the cutting edge of Digital Banking appeals and you have the background and skills we are looking for then get in touch, we would be keen to hear from you Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health We want our people to feel that they belong and will be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative We’re disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know Together we'll make it possible...