SRE & Service Lead

Role: SRE & Service Lead - Digital Core Platforms
Location: 2 days a week in London
Salary: £160,000 + 20% Value Account + Bonus

Are you a forward-thinking Engineering Leader with a deep understanding of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and SRE principles? Do you have a sharp eye for automation, observability, and leading technical teams through digital transformation at scale? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity to elevate your career at the forefront of banking innovation.

This is a unique opportunity to join a major UK bank and lead strategic engineering efforts across three key areas:

• Retail Mortgages

• Bank of APIs - delivering on PSD2 and other regulatory initiatives

• Real Time Core Banking - part of a long-term, cutting-edge modernisation programme

You'll be responsible for coordinating engineering teams, guiding technical strategy, and embedding best practices across one of the largest engineering domains in the bank (over 1000 staff - 75% engineers). This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who's passionate about driving resilience, automation, performance, and security at scale.

Ideal Candidate:

• Deep software engineering background with strong understanding of distributed systems

• Experience building and leading teams of SREs and Engineers - both onshore and offshore

• Expertise in cloud migration to AWS, distributed architecture, and open telemetry

• Strong exposure to SRE practices, observability frameworks, and automated monitoring

• Confident managing vulnerability, resiliency, and chaos engineering practices

• Track record of transforming large-scale platforms and delivering customer-centric tech

• Comfortable getting close to the code (10% hands-on involvement expected)

What you'll be doing:

• Leading platform design, observability strategy, and automation-first service delivery

• Overseeing hosting migration of the Mortgages portfolio to the cloud

• Owning vulnerability and incident response models across critical services

• Collaborating with Architecture, Security, and Engineering Leaders to shape roadmaps

• Building and growing a high-performing team across critical banking domains

• Ensuring digital services are robust, secure, and built for Real Time performance

If you're excited by large-scale technical ownership, working alongside some of the sharpest minds in banking tech, and helping digitise a major financial institution - this is your chance.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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