Job Title: Technical Leadership Specialist
We are seeking an experienced Technical Leadership Specialist to join our team. This is a unique opportunity to lead and develop a software engineering team, taking responsibility for implementing and supporting resilient digital channels that enable a suite of savings, mortgage, investment, pension, daily banking and insurance products for our customers.
**Key Responsibilities:**
• Technology ownership of customer- and staff assisted- digital channels, spanning all 'run and change' activities.
• Driving the delivery of end-to-end IT solutions, across multiple cross-functional squads, to enable business strategy and remediate legacy IT debt.
• Defining target IT architecture and driving plans to enable business strategy and remediate legacy IT debt.
• Providing technical expertise, covering technology modernisation, full-stack software delivery and CI/CD.
• Management of IT partners and vendors and relationships.
• People leadership, responsible for the performance management and career development of a team of direct reports.
**Requirements:**
• A minimum of 7 years' experience of agile delivery of technology change, preferably in a financial services /mortgage products context.
• Broad understanding of application, Information and Infrastructure technologies and best / emerging practices; spanning agile methodologies, common architectural design patterns, microservices, data and CI/CD.
• Effective collaboration with IT partners (nearshore and offshore) and IT vendors / service providers.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences at senior levels within the organization.
• Strong leadership and negotiation skills, with ability to build productive working relationships with internal teams, management and external stakeholders.
**What We Offer:**
Our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements. Some of our benefits include;
• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year