Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect

Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking

Our technology teams work closely with CLIENT’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world, to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank.

Our multi-disciplined teams include DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back-end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

Following extensive investment across our Technology and Digital domains and with plans for continued expansion throughout 2026 and beyond, we are currently seeking a Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect to assist in the development of an Engineering Excellence Practice.

Brief overview of the business areas

Cybersecurity Technology & Engineering is responsible for fielding solutions that help defend CLIENT against a wide range of threats to the business as well as its customers, clients, partners, and staff. The team works in concert, with partner teams across CLIENT, to implement novel defensive capabilities that are effective and adaptable against a constantly evolving threat landscape. The function operates under the vision: “Enabling CLIENT to be safely successful everywhere the Firm chooses to do business”

The Engineering Excellence and Enablement Team

We are a team of multi skilled engineers / architects who design and build integration solutions for Cyber services across CLIENT. Our overall aims are to improve the security of the bank by removing friction from the cyber services engineers consume, and to improve how Cyber engineers its own services. This includes working with teams to improve their DevSecOps practices, pipeline integration with cyber services, and working with the Principal Engineering community across the bank to run POC’s for improvements to existing services, or development of new services and features. This can require small optimisations or complete reimagining of the solution, and the way we achieve the overall outcomes.

What you will be doing

In addition to direct involvement with engineering teams across the bank we are also driving the adoption of engineering best practice across Cyber and are establishing an Engineering Excellence practice. We require an experienced engineer who has worked in high performing teams and has a broad knowledge, not just hands on development but also organisationally and has a proven track record in driving automation, efficiency quality and continuous improvement.

This is an engineering led initiative by engineers for engineers looking at how to mature and improve engineering practice both within individual engineering teams and horizontally across cyber.

Responsibilities

• Assist in establishing the engineering excellence program across Cyber, building a community of practice to drive consistency standardisation and a culture of automation and continuous improvement across teams.
  

• Embed engineering efficiency, improvement and engineering best practice across cyber with clarity on process, system and tools. Partnering with the Engineering leads and capability owners to ensure desired outcomes are achieved.
  

• Work with the engineering teams in setting requirements that develop services and capabilities that meet the controls needed but also appeal to a broad customer base and enable operational efficiency throughout our value stream.