Chapter Lead

Chapter Lead - Software Engineering (FTC up to 12 Months)

Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 per annum Department: IT Hours: 37.5 hours per week Location: Hybrid, UK-based - two days working from home per week Contract: Fixed-term contract for up to 12 months

Are you ready to lead exceptional people, drive meaningful change and deliver technology that makes a genuine impact?

We are looking for an experienced Chapter Lead to join a major fintech transformation programme. You will work within a product-led environment, helping to build secure and scalable platforms that process millions of financial transactions.

Alongside providing hands-on technical leadership, you will lead and develop a talented engineering chapter working across several cross-functional squads. This is an opportunity to make an immediate and visible impact on both the technology and the people delivering it.

• Build, lead and develop a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Create a coaching-led, collaborative and inclusive engineering culture.
• Manage the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, development and progression.
• Provide regular feedback, mentoring and technical guidance.
• Promote accountability, innovation and psychological safety.
• Support engineers in achieving their professional and technical development goals.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across modern software-engineering practices.
• Support the development of secure, scalable and highly available fintech platforms.
• Champion engineering best practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and continuous improvement.
• Maintain high standards of software quality, security and reliability.
• Work closely with Product, Architecture and other technical stakeholders.
• Help teams overcome complex technical and delivery challenges.

• Contribute to the organisation's technical strategy and engineering roadmap.
• Support a major fintech transformation programme.
• Promote effective collaboration across engineering teams and product squads.
• Help ensure the successful delivery of high-quality technical solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, tooling and ways of working.
• Communicate technical decisions and progress effectively to senior stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be a people-focused technical leader who is passionate about developing engineers and delivering excellent software.

• Strong software-engineering background using C# and .NET.
• Experience developing complex, secure and scalable systems.
• Proven experience leading, coaching and mentoring software engineers.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps and product-led delivery environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to balance people leadership with hands-on technical direction.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.

• Previous experience within fintech, financial services or another regulated environment.
• Experience supporting large-scale technology transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and cloud-native engineering.
• Experience working across multiple cross-functional product squads.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements within financial systems.

• Salary of £50,000 - £70,000, depending on experience.
• Fixed-term contract for up to 12 months.
• Hybrid working with two days per week working from home.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale fintech platforms with real-world impact.
• Key leadership role within a major transformation programme.
• Strong focus on learning, professional development and leadership growth.
• Collaborative and inclusive working environment.
• Opportunity to influence engineering culture, strategy and technical direction.

If you are looking for more than just another leadership position and want the opportunity to build, shape and lead within a fast-moving fintech environment, we would love to hear from you.

To apply, please submit your CV through the application link or contact Maria Vasileva at DCS Technology for a confidential discussion on or

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