Site Reliability Engineer & Service Lead

Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer & Service Lead

• If you’re an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with a software engineering background and you’re ready to take your career to the next level, this technical leadership role is an opportunity to advance your career and realise your potential
• You’ll harness your extensive experience and role model engineering best-practices to guide and manage the delivery of technically challenging projects with extraordinary scale, scope and complexity
• You can expect to grow your network and gain significant exposure both for you and your work, as you lead multiple teams to engineer innovative solutions and technology designs across the bank for our customers and colleagues

What you'll do

With a fine blend of hands-on and hands-off engineering, you’ll coordinate, support and guide your teams to design and engineer software, scripts and tools that are customer centric, high performing, secure and robust. And with a sharp focus on opportunities for automation, you’ll create efficiency where it doesn’t already exist by exploring and anticipating the impact of strategic challenges, and developing the proposed strategy, architecture and roadmap to drive them forward.

You’ll also be responsible for:

• Empowering and enabling your teams to grow by facilitating discussions, sharing insights, driving collaboration, and guiding the direction of work
• Developing design patterns, advocating our design principles and methodologies, and signposting the latest trends, technologies and tools
• Enhancing our software engineering capability and inspiring our community of engineers to fulfil their potential by facilitating internal mobility, shaping career paths and coaching talent

The skills you'll need

As a senior engineer, you’ll bring a wealth of practical experience and technical knowledge to this role. From knowledge of our applications, interfaces, services and platforms, to hands-on experience developing and implementing deployment patterns, application tooling and legacy and industry-leading technologies, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and insights to support and guide your teams to engineer innovative, value-adding solutions.

And, by harnessing your ability to engage and rally people around a tech cause, you’ll enable success at both a team and executive level and make a long-lasting impact through your work.

You'll demonstrate:

• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Significant experience of leading software development teams, executing strategies and implementing programming best practice
• Expertise in multiple high-level programming languages
• Great interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good communication skills