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Engineering Lead (two positions)
Rebuild a Bank's Core Technology
Manchester / Hybrid (2 days in office) | £70,000 - £84,000
I'm working with a major UK bank on two Engineering Lead hires, both in the team responsible for moving the bank off its legacy technology and onto an entirely new cloud platform.
This is a build job, not a maintenance one. The team doesn't just migrate old systems; they rethink the product as they go. Their most recent launch was a brand new current account built from a standing start, designed around what the customer experience should be rather than what the old technology allowed. Engineering here works with product to shape the proposition, not as a delivery function taking orders.
The two roles
- Components lead: leads engineering for the shared components that sit behind every product on the new platform. Broad scope, foundational work that everything else depends on.
- Savings lead: takes an existing savings proposition from the old world to the new, starting with a fixed term savings product. The current proposition is being completely rebuilt, so this is designing and launching alongside the product team from scratch.
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What you'll own
You'll have previously led a squad of 4-5 engineers with genuine end-to-end ownership: architecture, design and delivery of the work. You'll set the technical direction, own the quality of what ships, and work day to day with product to decide what gets built, not just how. This role will provide you with the opportunity to grow, and manage multiple squads.
The stack is entirely modern: all AWS, event-driven architecture, API-first, continuous deployment. These are always-on systems serving millions of customers.
Who this suits
You've come up through hands-on software engineering and you've managed at least one team properly, with line management, coaching and delivery responsibility. You can still talk fluently about what your team builds and why; and you can equally hold your own with product and senior stakeholders.
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You do not need a financial services background. The client is actively open to people from mid-sized tech companies who've built always-on platforms with modern architectures. Their view: they can teach you banking, they can't teach you modern engineering.
You'll need strong, recent experience with cloud (ideally AWS), event-driven systems, APIs, and working in a continuous deployment environment. If your current world is quarterly releases and change boards, this won't be the right fit.
The setup
£70,000- £84,000 plus a strong banking benefits package. Manchester hybrid, 2 days a week in the office. Two positions available.
Interested, or know someone who might be? Send a CV or a message to nr@redcat-digital.com.
Neil Rogers | RedCat Digital
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