Global Head Of It Engineering

Global Head of IT Engineering
My leading high street bank is looking for a Global Head of It engineering to undertake a 12 month contract whilst they recruit the role on a perm basis. T
his is a HANDS ON leadership role and you will have at least 10-15 years technical experience. Financial services experience is preferred but not essential
Essential Skills
Leading an engineering function in a large financial services company or similar relevant experience leading 1000+ FTE organisation
"Hands on" engineering background (10-15 years) with experience in an individual contributor engineering role (as opposed to a people manager with experience in engineering teams)
Technical know-how working with application modernisation, Agile, DevOps & SRE
Delivery focused, strategic and forward looking
Achieving transformation in a large, complex multinational organisation with proven ability to improve developer productivity (through automation and advanced technical skills)
Ability to think laterally and innovatively and find creative solutions, with a proactive approach to problem solving and delivery
Able to work within an ambiguous environment, prioritise and reconcile competing demands and resolve complex issues
Experience of working in a highly regulated environment
Great attention to detail with to support risk identification and management
Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives
Nurturing change in ways-of-working throughout an organisation and internationally across different cultures
Strong communicator and a natural diplomatKey Duties
Accountable for establishing and driving the Engineering strategy as part of the overall Digital Channel strategy
Responsible for CMB ExCo level stakeholder management for Digital Engineering
Communicate overall strategy, forming the delivery approach and breaking down business directives into technology goals and engineering outcomes
Prioritisation of outcomes within the engineering strategy to ensure overall Technology and Digital strategy objectives can be met
Bring transparency of engineering activities to the business
Contribute to architecture by asking the right questions to ensure architecture meets the business needs
Drive cultural change across the Engineering community to support our transformation journey
Accountable to the Head of Wholesale Technology Digital for successful business management of the function and as such will be required to act as delegate for the Head of Wholesale Digital where required
Accountable for embedding and maturing the DevOps and Agile ways of working across Technology including promoting modern ways of working changes across the team and uplift in methodology
Drive engineering transformation through E2E automation Workflow (CI/CD), Automated Testing, Observability and Alerting and Reusability of Assets within Wholesale Digital (including our API estate)
Responsible for delivering stability and resilience improvements, including an overall reduction in outages and incidents across all services
Ensuring we have the right talent, in the right place to make our organisation Future Fit My client offers hybrid working with 2 / 3 days a week on site in London though this is flexible
If you are interested then please get in touch ASAP to find out more about this great opportunity as I have interview slots ready to be filled.
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