Global Head of Engineering - Global Bank

My client is a global bank based in London. The bank is investing heavily across Technology and Digital domains, and to accelerate achieving their vision, they are seeking an experienced Global Head of Engineering to join Digital Channels on a contract basis. This is a global role based in London, with occasional travel required.

Key skills:

• Leading an engineering function in a large financial services company or similar relevant experience leading 1000+ FTE organisation
• “Hands on” engineering background with experience in an individual contributor engineering role (as opposed to a people manager with experience in engineering teams)
• Technical know-how working with application modernisation, Agile, DevOps & SRE
• Delivery focused, strategic and forward looking

• Achieving transformation in a large, complex multinational organisation with proven ability to improve developer productivity (through automation and advanced technical skills)
• Able to work within an ambiguous environment, prioritize and reconcile competing demands and resolve complex issues

• Experience of working in a highly regulated environment
• Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for establishing and driving the Engineering strategy as part of the overall Digital Channel strategy
• Responsible for stakeholder management for Digital Engineering
• Communicate overall strategy, forming the delivery approach and breaking down business directives into technology goals and engineering outcomes
• Prioritisation of outcomes within the engineering strategy to ensure overall Technology and Digital strategy objectives can be met
• Contribute to architecture by asking the right questions to ensure architecture meets the business needs
• Accountable for embedding and maturing the DevOps and Agile ways of working across Technology including promoting modern ways of working changes across the team and uplift in methodology
• Drive engineering transformation through E2E automation Workflow (CI/CD), Automated Testing, Observability and Alerting and Reusability of Assets within Wholesale Digital (including API estate)

Please apply now for immediate consideration and further details.

Keywords: Global Head of Engineering, Head of Engineering, Agile, DevOps, Digital Engineering, Bank, Banking.

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