Join us as a Architecture and Engineering Lead - Bankine Direct Platform

• We’ll look to you to manage all aspects of change, run and operational health of your platform that’s aligned to the business’s vision
• It’s a highly collaborative role that will see you working closely with key stakeholders and centres of excellence to build the right solutions that deliver customer value
• This is a chance to have real influence, and see your decisions producing tangible results in this high profile, critical role
• We're offering this role at director level

What you'll do

As Platform Lead, you'll be delivering and owning the platform operational stability and performance, including maintaining applications, systems, utilities and tools. You'll work closely with senior engineering teams in the management and development of strategic planning,. Through understanding the technical direction and emerging technologies and trends, we’ll look to you to manage the technical architecture and design of your platform and how it aligns to domain and enterprise roadmaps and targets.

Alongside this, you’ll champion and plan the delivery of business value and an enhanced customer experience as you lead teams to understand and focus on customer outcomes.

You’ll also be:

• Owning and creating the platform technical road map with the right architecture, solutions and commercial value
• Working closely with the user experience department in designing, developing, and deploying scalable technologies that will lead to increased consumer satisfaction
• Providing day to day direction for engineering function - frontend, backend, database, cloud infrastructure engineers
• Driving forward improvements to improve digital products through technical capabilities
• Providing expertise to ensure optimal business solutions that meet our customers’ needs and the overall strategy and roadmap
• Owning the remediation of technical issues to simplify and improve the platform’s architecture and technology

The skills you'll need

We're looking for a strong leader and communicator with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and senior management, with good collaboration and stakeholder management skills. You'll have demonstrable experience and knowledge of running high performance large scaled programmes, projects and teams, paired with domain and platform product knowledge.

On top of this, you’ll have:

• Strong hands on technical knowledge and skills in Java (Springboot), ReactJS, Terraform, AWS and or GCP,. Mainframe modernisation experience is beneficial
• An expert understanding of running large complex projects spanning multiple teams and senior governance forums
• A strong understanding of platform applications and services, with the ability to convert a business ask to a technical solution
• Operational, risk management, financial management, collaboration and negotiation experience and expertise

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

23/11/2025