Lead Technology – Full-Stack Product Engineering

• Define the full-stack product and technical strategy with the CIO and business product owners and own the senior product-owner relationship

• Take one-stop-shop accountability for delivery of products and solutions – risk cannot be outsourced to vendors

• Lead design of product and service solution blueprints aligned to short-, medium- and long-term strategy and Group Architecture standards

• Lead scoping, prioritisation and integration planning across front-end, back-end and integration stakeholder groups

• Design and implement automation testing, CI/CD strategies and pipelines across squads (Kubernetes, Jenkins, TeamCity, Artifactory, New Relic, Splunk)

• Guide code quality and engineering practices across Java, Python and other languages, APIs (REST/SOAP/JSON), batch and real-time systems

• Manage the DevOps pipeline and releases for maximum customer impact and minimum business risk; own application longevity

• Resource and manage agile squads across Run and Change; partner CTO, CSO, Risk and enablement functions

• Attract, develop and retain a diverse, high-performing engineering team; coach and mentor senior developers

• Manage vendor selection and contract negotiation and apply risk and governance frameworks to technical decision-making

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

• Senior full-stack engineering and technology leadership experience in an enterprise environment

• Expert knowledge of architecture and infrastructure – virtualisation, containerisation, automation, storage and serverless on AWS, Azure, Google and on-prem cloud

• Strong DevOps, CI/CD and automated-testing expertise

• Hands-on development background across server-side, client-side, web services and secure architectural patterns

• Fluency in agile delivery, stakeholder and vendor management