Business Unit: Product & Channels
Location: UK hybrid – with travel to one of our UK Virgin Money hubs when required
Contract type : Permanent
Our Products & Channels CIO mission is clear: combine engineering excellence, top-tier delivery practices, and outstanding service design to create superb products and services. We're on a journey to become the UK's best digital bank, focusing on digital customer journeys, engineering excellence, and empowering our people.
The Product & Channels team leads client-facing apps and web services, including the migration to a single V-App. We're transforming to enhance collaboration, encourage curiosity, and streamline operations for exceptional customer experiences. With a purpose-driven approach, we're making money happier for our customers, ensuring better security, stability, and performance. We are also responsible to drive and transform our contact centre and stores (branch) application estate. Reporting to the Engineering Lead, you’ll be responsible for line managing a team of talented Engineers and provide direction for the capabilities being built by them. This includes recruitment activities, management of team financials and ensure delivery is done using approved tools and technologies.
Build and maintain Teller application delivery roadmap working with the business stakeholders whilst also ensuring continued focus on Platform Health and stabilisation and building secure, resilient and observant platforms.
Lead and drive end-to-end software delivery ensuring business expectations on delivery and code quality are met.
Devops, Release Management, QA) to enable faster release and deployment cycles.
Work with architecture team to design solutions that are secure, scalable and optimised for performance.
Experience in a technical lead role, leading the delivery of large and complex projects and leading the team of engineers.
Excellent hands-on technical skills to help the team and solve problems at hand.
Extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying solutions using J2EE, Sprint Boot, Microservices/API Pattern, Servlets (JSP),
Knowledge about WebSphere Application Server, ESB Messaging
Experience of working in an Agile environment and will champion ongoing improvements to ways of working.
It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
Knowledge and experience of IBM WSBTT Framework
Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
~ Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
~20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
~ Market-leading pension.
~ Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
~ Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.