Lead Enterprise Engineer/Architect in Sheffield

Duration: contract to run until 09/04/2027

Location: Sheffield, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite

Rate: up to £529 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

Our technology teams work closely with our client’s global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world to bank quickly, simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure, data centres and core banking systems that power the world’s leading international bank. Our multi-disciplined teams include DevOps engineers, IT architects, front and back-end developers, infrastructure specialists, cyber experts, as well as project and programme managers.

Following extensive investment across our Technology and Digital domains and with plans for continued expansion throughout 2026 and beyond, we are currently seeking a Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect to assist in the development of an Engineering Excellence Practice.

Brief overview of the business areas

Cybersecurity Technology & Engineering is responsible for fielding solutions that help defend our client against a wide range of threats to the business as well as its customers, clients, partners, and staff. The team works in concert with partner teams across our client to implement novel defensive capabilities that are effective and adaptable against a constantly evolving threat landscape. The function operates under the vision: “Enabling our client to be safely successful everywhere the Firm chooses to do business.”

The Engineering Excellence and Enablement Team

We are a team of multi-skilled engineers/architects who design and build integration solutions for Cyber services across our client. Our overall aims are to improve the security of the bank by removing friction from the cyber services engineers consume, and to improve how Cyber engineers its own services. This includes working with teams to improve their DevSecOps practices, pipeline integration with cyber services, and working with the Principal Engineering community across the bank to run POCs for improvements to existing services or development of new services and features. This can require small optimisations or complete reimagining of the solution, and the way we achieve the overall outcomes.

What you will be doing

• Assist in establishing the engineering excellence program across Cyber, building a community of practice to drive consistency, standardisation and a culture of automation and continuous improvement across teams.
• Embed engineering efficiency, improvement and engineering best practice across cyber with clarity on process, system and tools.
• Partnering with the Engineering leads and capability owners to ensure desired outcomes are achieved.
• Work with the engineering teams in setting requirements that develop services and capabilities that meet the controls needed but also appeal to a broad customer base and enable operational efficiency throughout our value stream.
• Facilitate the creation, evolution and implementation of standard build and deployment pipelines across Cyber.
• Engage with Cyber engineering teams to build, enhance and adopt these pipelines.
• Champion cross-functional reuse across new product introduction, gaining clear ownership and accountability to improve our product time to market.
• Engage with other engineering teams across Cyber and business to create a build once and use many times approach.
• Coach and support the Agile teams to ensure full consideration of ‘concept to product to customer’ is achieved through the upfront obsession of customer needs, adoption of standard patterns/approaches and drive a culture of inner sourcing and reuse.
• Identify standards and patterns which need to be developed/adopted to drive consistency and efficiency in our ways of working, and lead on their production and implementation.
• Partner with the product management teams to enable improved business case outcomes when selecting external products through a standardised product selection approach ensuring non-functional engineering requirements needed for effective operation are included as standard and not just functional requirements.

What you will bring to the role

• Strong DevOps skills and experience – both hands-on and at design level.
• Have degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or a related Scientific discipline.
• Have extensive experience working as a senior engineer or Technical Architect.
• Have extensive experience leading in high-tech or high-change environments, with a proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Have led or significantly contributed to one or more engineering improvement initiatives in large complex organisations.
• Be technically resilient and solutions-focused, with strong analytical thinking and the ability to assess complex technical, commercial, and regulatory inputs.
• Have strong demonstrated people management capability, with experience operating across global, decentralised teams.
• Have proven ability to influence, build relationships, and drive strategic plans with clear, actionable outcomes.
• Be action orientated and shown track record of delivery to commitments.
• Have a track record of delivering results in complex, matrixed environments, with a deep understanding of design authority, engineering quality, safety and compliance.
• Be experienced in systems engineering and requirements management to enable innovative, scalable solutions.
• Have excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills, with the presence to engage effectively at senior levels across diverse cultures.
• Fluent in spoken and written English, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively across global teams.

It’s an advantage if you:

• Have worked in finance sector or a related highly regulated industry.
• Have worked in Cyber Security, or have good experience in Cyber Security tools and standards.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!