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Senior Director of Engineering
Global Consumer Finance
Up to £220,000 + Bonus & Shares
London (3-4 Days Onsite)
We have partnered with a major global consumer finance business on the appointment of a Senior Director of Engineering to lead its European engineering organisation across multiple territories.
This is a newly shaped leadership seat at the centre of an ambitious, software-led transformation, delivered across markets that each carry their own financial-services regulation, with a mandate to modernise the technology behind every customer touchpoint and turn it into a driver of loyalty and lifetime value.
You'll set the technology direction and drive innovation across a large, always-on estate spanning several European markets, leading a team of over 100 engineers, product and architecture professionals within a global tech organisation of over 1,000 people.
What you'll lead:
- Engineering delivery across multiple European territories, aligning teams and priorities across markets and time zones
- Technology that meets differing financial-services and data-protection regimes country by country - from GDPR through to local regulatory and compliance obligations in each market
- The end-to-end technology direction across customer-facing platforms - contact centre and telephony, IVR, dealer finance tooling, mobile and Salesforce estates
- A significant modernisation and technical-debt agenda across the full stack
- Cloud, AI and DevSecOps strategy on Google Cloud Platform, with an API-first, cloud-native way of working
- A matched-pair partnership with Product on quarterly prioritisation and OKR delivery
- Resilience, security and always-on continuity across a 24/7 environment
- Multi-million technology budgets, vendor negotiation and capex/opex planning
- Team growth, coaching, succession and inclusive culture-building at scale
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What we're looking for:
- Proven experience owning technology delivery across several European countries, each with its own regulatory and compliance landscape
- A strong track record of building and running systems that satisfy varied, jurisdiction-specific financial-services regulation and data-privacy law
- Proven years in increasingly senior technology leadership roles on large-scale consumer programmes
- Track record leading engineering organisations of 100+ people across more than one country
- Depth across cloud-native, headless and API-led modernisation (SpringBoot microservices, federated GraphQL/Apollo, React/Angular; AEM/Adobe and Salesforce exposure a plus)
- Strong DevSecOps grounding and a compelling, well-communicated technical vision
- Comfort operating in a matrixed enterprise where commercial and regulatory pressures pull in different directions across markets
- Ownership of large technology budgets and vendor relationships
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The Package:
- Base: Up to £220,000
- Strong Bonus & Shares offering
- 3-4 days onsite, London based
This is a complex leadership role rather than a pure "modernise the stack" brief. The scope will suit a leader operating at, or ready to step up to, divisional-CTO level. If you're interested in finding out more, don't hesitate to apply!
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