Engineering Portfolio Lead Engineering Practices

We're supporting a major global financial services organisation who are looking to onboard an Engineering Portfolio Lead to join their Global Engineering Practices team within the Chief Technology Office (CTO). This is not a traditional Project or Programme Management role. Instead, you'll work alongside senior engineering leaders to help shape and drive strategic initiatives that improve engineering capability across a large global technology organisation. The role is focused on engineering transformation, organisational effectiveness and helping engineering teams continually improve the way they work.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone from an Engineering Transformation, Engineering Operations, CTO Office, Engineering Enablement or Technology Strategy background who enjoys working across engineering leadership rather than delivering individual projects.

• Support multiple Engineering Practices initiatives across a large, complex technology closely with senior engineering leaders to coordinate priorities, planning and strategic initiatives.
• Help improve engineering effectiveness, engineering maturity and organisational health across multiple engineering teams.
• Track progress against OKRs, strategic objectives and engineering improvement initiatives.
• Produce high-quality executive presentations, briefing papers and stakeholder communications.
• Gather metrics, engineering insights and success stories to demonstrate the impact of Engineering Practices initiatives.
• Support Engineering Communities of Practice, capability uplift initiatives and engineering engagement activities.
• Build strong relationships across Engineering, HR, Communications and Strategy teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering ways of working and increase organisational effectiveness.

• Experience leading or supporting engineering transformation, engineering operating model or engineering effectiveness initiatives within large technology within Engineering Transformation, Engineering Operations, CTO Office, Engineering Enablement, Technology Strategy or similar engineering-focused functions.
• Experience working closely with senior engineering leaders to improve engineering capability, governance and ways of working.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across complex matrix organisations.
• Excellent written communication skills, including executive presentations, reports and briefing papers.
• Experience coordinating multiple strategic initiatives across engineering organisations.
• Familiarity with collaboration and portfolio tools such as Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Teams.

• Financial Services or banking experience.
• Experience supporting Engineering Communities of Practice, Engineering Excellence or Developer Experience initiatives.
• Exposure to engineering effectiveness measures such as DORA metrics, OKRs or similar engineering maturity frameworks.
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise organisations.

Contract Details: £600-650 per day (inside IR35) Hybrid working Sheffield. Potential for Birmingham to be considered for exceptional candidates (subject to client approval). Initial contract with strong potential for extension.

If you're interested in helping shape engineering capability and engineering transformation within a large global technology organisation, we'd be pleased to hear from you. Please apply with your latest CV.