Software Engineering Practice Lead, Director

Join us as a Software Engineering Practice Lead

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer
• Youll be designing, producing, testing and implementing working software, working across the lifecycle of the system
• Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role
• We're offering this role director level

What you'll do

• Working in a cross-bank team you'll be developing the standards and disciplines that enable engineers to develop efficiently securely. You will actively communicate and demonstrate these engineering practices across the whole bank. Youll also be liaising with Engineering Fellows, Distinguished Engineers and the wider engineering population to ensure the standards support their vision and way of working.

Youll also be:

• Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog
• Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns
• Supporting with the production of software to the highest standards

The skills you'll need

• Were looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. Youll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements.

Additionally, youll demonstrate:

• Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business
• Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector
• Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way