Head of Digital - Mobile & Web - Banking

Head of Digital - Mobile & Web - Banking

Excellent opportunity opens for a Technology leader strong on Digital Transformation, Digital Channels and Front End Technology to join a leading Bank's London office in a critical role. You will play a key role to significantly improve its customer touchpoints and take technical ownership of these areas. The role will be responsible for modernising and leading our software capability within the technology roadmap of the UK to deliver outstanding web and mobile offerings at pace.

Technical Leadership

• Take full lifecycle ownership of UK web and mobile services whether Group or UK owned
• Lead the technical designs and oversee all engineering related issues for front end and backend technologies
• Provide input into technical buy vs build decisions as the mobile / web journeys expand, and ensure they align with our modernisation strategy
• Ensure that we safely and securely incorporate third party solutions and / or Group solutions into our Digital offerings
• Support the move to performant, micro-service based Cloud applications as it becomes possible
• Evaluate technical efficiency, and be able to talk to long term costs, time to market, technical debt
• Ensure all products and services are supported by excellent third line support
• Stay up to date with latest digital technology trends and bring them to bear in our system designs

Delivery aspects

• Own technical aspects of delivery for our digital customer touchpoints
• Optimise the delivery throughput for web and mobile front end and back end components
• Lead technical initiatives to improve delivery efficiency (strategic direction on use of Group provided frameworks, build pipelines, ways of working improvements)
• Support the bank’s modernisation journey and transition to modern business processing platforms and their integration with the web and mobile services
• Support and enhance the existing agile ways of working
• Be able to marry Agile and Waterfall where necessary
• People leadership of the UK web and mobile teams as they grow
• Build, continuously develop and lead a modern software capability (Java, React, mobile) in the UK
• Line manage, mentor and coach engineers
• Ensure best practice is shared across teams and empower the teams to drive change themselves
• Provide structured performance reviews to support ongoing professional development within teams
• Convert department-level objectives into key results for your team

About You:

• Experience of product engineering and delivery, including within a people management role
• Hands-on experience working in web-based and/or native app product development including the front end, backend services, database, build pipeline and networking technologies. This is not a hands on role but you need to be comfortable being close to the detail of the code and architecture.
• Demonstrable experience of Agile and of leading and scaling distributed autonomous engineering teams across remote locations
• Experience with Java, React and native IOS/AOS mobile would be strong plusses
• Comfortable working with legacy technology constraints, identifying opportunities to modernise and encouraging and leading innovation to drive towards a modern, resilient technical architecture
• Ability to work well in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and to pick up new skill sets quickly
• Track record of delivering well engineered solutions using current technologies
• Experience running engineering teams over a sustained period and can demonstrate excellent leadership across technology domains like development, quality, support, architecture and integration
• Knowledge of developing and operating modern distributed software applications in the cloud would be ideal
• Experienced in product development life cycles and working in a lean-agile way.
• Can think and act strategically, as well as recognising when to act tactically and operationally
• You are a people leader who can inspire and grow talent
• You understand how to influence others and how to build collaborative, productive relationships with your peers
• Able to form a clear compelling vision for the future, incorporating diverse sources of input.

Interested? Please Apply!

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