Technical Platform Lead - Prudential and Analytics Platform

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Leeds, London

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

We are looking for a Technical Platform Lead to work very closely with the Business Platform lead for the Prudential and Analytics Platform. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to be right at the heart of the transformation journey across the Group. The platform delivers regulatory change and builds future analytical capability for the Risk Division, ensuring the Group remains compliant, resilient, and data‑driven, while modernising how risk data, models, and reporting are developed and operated across the bank.

Core Purpose of the Role

Platform Leads operate with joint accountability for their platform, working in close partnership to deliver world class product and engineering organisation, with a deep focus on service. They own platform strategy, OKRs, and backlog management, driving outcomes across financial performance, delivery, service resilience, people capability, and risk. The role is accountable for how technology is designed, built, and operated, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable solutions aligned to Group strategy.

What you'll need

• Strong experience building individual and team capability, leading reskilling, upskilling, and strategic workforce planning (including recruitment and early careers), balancing future demand with immediate needs within budget constraints.
• Significant experience leading and empowering world‑class engineering teams using agile development methods and tooling within a DevOps environment.
• Fostering collaborative, transparent cultures and demonstrating thought leadership in end‑to‑end technical delivery, using strong problem solving to drive optimal solutions and remove blockers.
• Brings broad knowledge of engineering and software design, DevOps, data, automation and hosting choices.
• Experienced collaborator with confirmed ability to influence multiple internal and external relationships (suppliers, regulators etc) to ensure progression of key business decisions.
• Adept communication skills to communicate complex messages and tell a compelling story - using these skills to anticipate challenge to resolve complex issues and conflicting requirements.
• Deep knowledge of the competitor landscape, customer behaviour and emerging products and technologies that is used to assess and improve impact for exceptional user and customer experience.
• Skilled in developing and maintaining customer journey improvements.
• Strong and demonstrable experience of managing technical service and security.
• Well versed in technical architecture principles and deep experience of systems architecture and integration (incl with third parties) and skilled at ensuring we Evergreen modern technology.
• Detailed knowledge of software design, build and release via DevOps principles and practices.
• Understanding and knowledge of frameworks.
• Identify, monitor and mitigate commercial and customer risks in alignment with the requirement of the regulatory environment.
• Deliver cost and income targets in alignment with broader risk and capital/funding requirements.
• Experience of driving a focus on all risk, governance, conduct and control requirements and of using the context of these in decision making around technology.
• Providing a data focused approach, using analytics and insight to make evidence based decisions that explain the 'why' to a variety of audiences.
• Strong commercial competence and the ability to effectively assess choices to achieve the best outcomes for Customers.

We offer a wide‑ranging benefits package, which includes:

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• Holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative. As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long‑term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long‑term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know. If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.