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Engineering Practice Lead
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Engineering Practice Lead
Location: Birmingham (3 days per week on-site)
Contract: Initial 6 months
Rate: Market Rate
IR35: Inside IR35
We're working with a Tier 1 global bank seeking an experienced Engineering Practice Lead to drive engineering transformation across a large-scale technology organisation.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong engineering background who is passionate about improving engineering capability, driving best practice, and influencing engineering culture across software, infrastructure, operations, and data teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead engineering transformation initiatives across multiple technology domains.
- Drive engineering maturity assessments and continuous improvement programmes.
- Promote engineering standards, best practices, and communities of practice.
- Partner with engineering leadership, HR, and workforce teams to develop engineering capability and career pathways.
- Analyse engineering metrics to identify trends and drive measurable improvements.
- Collaborate with senior technical leaders to embed a high-performing engineering culture.
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Requirements:
- Strong engineering background with experience in software, infrastructure, operations, or data engineering.
- Proven experience delivering engineering transformation or continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience coordinating programmes across multiple technical teams and business areas.
- Ability to interpret engineering data and translate it into actionable improvements.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Previous experience within a large, complex enterprise environment, ideally financial services.
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Desirable:
- Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Experience with engineering maturity frameworks and engineering governance.
- Background in large-scale infrastructure or technology transformation programmes.
If you're passionate about raising engineering standards and shaping engineering excellence within a complex enterprise environment, we'd love to hear from you.
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