Desirable Criteria

Candidates with additional experience in the following areas would be particularly valuable:

• Proven experience deploying and operating containerised workloads in production using Kubernetes or a comparable orchestration platform.
• Demonstrable experience designing, developing, and operating microservices or API-based distributed systems, including addressing resilience and failure handling.
• Experience implementing or improving production observability with Azure Monitor or a comparable platform, and using service-level indicators or objectives to guide reliability improvements.
• Experience designing, developing, or operating services backed by relational databases, including writing and optimising SQL.
• Significant software development experience delivering production backend services using one or more modern technologies such as C#, Java, Python, or Go.
• Experience automating and operating Windows workloads in Azure using infrastructure as code and CI/CD, and/or administering Linux systems in production.

How This Role Fits Into the Wider Bank

This is a Lead Engineer role within the Data Collection Platforms team. The team is responsible for the Bank’s strategic data collection platform, as well as several other systems critical to the Bank’s mission.

More broadly, this role contributes to the Bank’s mission by helping to modernise and secure its technology estate. You’ll be part of a team that builds resilient, scalable infrastructure to support critical services across the organisation, helping to ensure the Bank remains agile, secure, and future-ready.

Our Approach to Inclusion

The Bank values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.

At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. We believe that it’s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we’ll continue to make the best decisions for the public.

We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part-time working patterns. We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.

From 1st October 2026, we expect all our colleagues to spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office per month. This is to capitalise on the benefits of working together in person across teams, while maintaining the flexibility offered by home working. Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them and their team.

Finally, we're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-confident-guidance-for-levels-1-2-and-3/level-2-disability-confident-employer]. If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the ‘Candidate Personal Information’ under the ‘Disability Confident Scheme’ section of the application.

Salary and Benefits

We encourage flexible working, part-time working, and job-share arrangements. Part-time salary and benefits are pro-rated as appropriate.

• London salary: £80,320 - £90,360
• Leeds salary: £72,320 - £81,360

The benefits package currently includes:

• A non-contributory, career-average pension, currently providing a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of annual salary for every year worked. Through the flexible benefits programme, there is an option to increase accrual to 1/65th or decrease it to 1/105th in exchange for salary. The Bank may vary standard accrual rates and dial-up or dial-down rates, or withdraw the dial-up and dial-down options, at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on the current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance, which can be taken as salary or used to purchase flexible benefits.
• 26 days’ annual leave, with the option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

Flexible Working

This role is open to flexible working patterns, which may include:

• Adapting your calendar to accommodate personal commitments, such as school runs, exercise, or appointments.
• Spreading the 50% in-office attendance expectation across the month to accommodate different working patterns.
• Working from abroad, subject to approval and policy.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process (and typically can take between 6 to 12 weeks post offer) and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with the Bank policy. Further information regarding the vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant, and information about how the Bank processes personal data for these purposes, is set out in the Bank's Privacy Notice [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/legal/privacy].

The Application Process

Important: Please ensure that you complete the ‘work history’ section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It’s therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.

We are the UK's central bank - and we are a bank like no other; known by our peers for our world-leading thinking on policy and strategy.

Our mission is to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability. We seek to keep prices stable and people's money safe. We know our work matters to people, to families, up and down the UK. We are driven by curiosity and the desire to do important, challenging work.

It takes a great team to run the Bank of England. We rely on each other to play our part. We benefit from a collaborative culture and long-established flexible ways of working, supporting our colleagues balance their work and personal lives. We strive