At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering for critical financial systems and mentor teams in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join EDF, a leader in energy transition with a focus on personal success.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, annual bonus, flexible working, and customisable benefits.
- Other info: Inclusive culture with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of finance systems while making a real impact on energy solutions.
- Qualifications: Proven leadership in engineering, strong cloud expertise, and hands-on programming skills.
About the Role
Ready to lead engineering that powers critical financial systems and data at scale? Looking to shape technical direction, mentor teams, and deliver real business impact in a fast-moving environment? At EDF, Success is Personal and this is your chance to grow your leadership and engineering career your way.
The Opportunity
As a Lead Engineer within Finance Systems and Analytics, you'll play a key role in leading the engineering capability behind critical platforms that underpin revenue, risk, and settlements across our Customers business. You'll guide teams delivering high-impact systems, while supporting our journey towards An Electric Britain.
Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, this is a flexible role with occasional travel to our Exeter or London offices. You'll benefit from a hybrid approach, giving you the freedom to work in a way that suits you while staying connected to your team.
You'll lead technical delivery across multiple products, shaping best practice in cloud, DevOps, and agile delivery. From mentoring engineers to driving innovation and quality, you'll influence both team performance and wider engineering communities, building solutions that deliver real value.
Who You Are
As a Lead Engineer (FS&A), you're a confident technical leader who combines strong engineering expertise with the ability to guide teams and influence stakeholders. You bring a delivery mindset, enjoy solving complex problems, and take ownership of outcomes. To be shortlisted, you need to offer:
- Proven experience leading small to medium-sized engineering teams in a fast-paced agile environment
- Strong expertise in cloud architectures, particularly AWS, supported by relevant certifications
- Hands-on experience with server-side programming using languages such as Python, Java, Kotlin, or NodeJS
- Experience designing and building REST APIs and integrating third-party services
- Commercial experience with React or React Native, alongside modern state management libraries
- Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub, or Terraform
- Knowledge of event-driven, serverless, and loosely coupled architectures
- Experience applying test-driven or behaviour-driven development practices
- Proven experience working within the energy industry
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading the day-to-day engineering capability and technical delivery across finance systems and analytics products
- Driving the design, development, and optimisation of cloud-based and data-intensive platforms
- Mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, and deployment standards are in place
- Collaborating with product owners, architects, and stakeholders to deliver value-focused solutions
Pay, Benefits and Culture
Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.
At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that's unique to you. Here, Success is Personal it's your journey, powered by us.
Everyone is welcome at EDF; we're committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.
Closing date for applications is Sunday 12th July 2026. Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and drive the transition towards An Electric Britain.
Lead Engineer - FS&A - Hybrid - London, UK in Kent employer: EDF
At EDF, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that champions personal growth and innovation. Our hybrid working model allows you to balance your professional and personal life while contributing to critical financial systems that drive our mission towards An Electric Britain. With a strong focus on mentorship, collaboration, and a diverse work culture, we empower our employees to shape their careers in a supportive environment that values every individual's unique journey.
