Job Title: Engineering Lead Location: Edinburgh, UK (hybrid) Contract: 12 months initially Start date: ASAP Role Overview The Engineering Lead is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving engineering excellence across multiple value streams, including Retail, Workplace, and Customer Care. This position oversees the full software development lifecycle, ensuring high-quality, secure, and scalable delivery of business-critical features. You will play a key role in shaping the technology strategy, fostering innovation, and aligning engineering outcomes with business objectives. Key Responsibilities Define and evolve the engineering strategy across customer engagement channels, including microservices, cloud-native platforms (AWS), and DevSecOps. Lead platform engineering initiatives and architectural governance across value streams. Ensure rapid and reliable delivery of business features with measurable outcomes (e.g., user engagement, transaction volumes). Shape and lead large-scale transformation programmes, aligning technology solutions with customer goals. Collaborate with account architects to present unified architectural visions and secure stakeholder buy-in. Represent engineering in governance forums, ensuring compliance, security, and operational resilience. Build high-performing, cross-functional engineering teams aligned with agile delivery models. Partner with business stakeholders across the business Champion platform engineering accelerators to drive innovation and client retention. Identify opportunities for technology-led business value creation and differentiation. Required Qualifications 10 years of software engineering experience 2-3 years in senior technology leadership position within an SME Proven ability to advise and engage with C-suite stakeholders and executive leadership. Demonstrated success in leading technology strategy and solutioning for large-scale programmes. Expertise in microservices architecture and cloud-native technologies (AWS). Hands-on experience with AWS, Python, Angular, Docker, Kubernetes. Deep knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). Exposure to frontend frameworks and micro frontends. If you are interested please apply via linkedin or directly on our websites Due to a high volume of interest we may not be able to contact all applicants