Technical Development Manager (12 Months Fixed Term)

About the Role

As Technical Development Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our core banking platform, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions across multiple products and projects. Combining strategic oversight with hands-on technical leadership, you will be responsible for defining and driving technology strategies, technical roadmaps, architecture standards, and secure software development initiatives that support both current business needs and future growth.

Leading a team of core banking developers, you will foster a high-performance culture through effective leadership, mentoring, and technical guidance. You will empower teams to succeed by establishing clear technical standards, encouraging best practice, and creating an environment that supports innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Working closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Cyber Security, Architecture, and Platform teams, you will develop and maintain technical roadmaps that align with organisational goals and provide a clear vision for the evolution of our technology landscape. You will identify opportunities to modernise existing capabilities, optimise technical platforms, and leverage emerging technologies to improve efficiency, scalability, and resilience.

A key aspect of the role is providing technical expertise across software architecture, design, and development methodologies, ensuring teams have the direction and governance needed to deliver exceptional outcomes. You will also champion the ongoing enhancement of development processes, embedding security throughout the software development lifecycle and helping the organisation stay ahead of emerging threats, industry trends, and technological advancements.

About You
We are looking for an experienced technology engineering leader with a strong background in core banking technologies and a passion for building high-performing teams. Combining strategic thinking with deep technical expertise, you are comfortable defining technical direction for core banking platforms. You will , drive innovation, and translate business objectives into effective technology strategies that deliver long-term value.

Ideally educated to degree level in an IT-related discipline, you will bring a strong technical experience and understanding of modern development environments and platforms, including technologies such as IBMi. You will also have experience working in Agile environments, and a commitment to embedding best practice across development teams.

You will be experienced in leading, mentoring, and motivating technical professionals, enabling teams to achieve ambitious goals while maintaining high standards of quality and delivery. You will have a proven track record of managing change, delivering complex initiatives, and working collaboratively with a range of support functions and stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes. Experience gained in financial services or another regulated industry would be advantageous.

About Us
The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.
The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes: