Engineering Lead - Banking

Spencer Rose are urgently seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to work for our Banking client for a minimum 6 month contract (extensions highly likely), to start ASAP. Hybrid, 2 days a week in Central London.

Start: ASAP (allowing up to 2 weeks for vetting and onboarding)
Day Rate: £450pd Inside IR35
Hybrid: 2 days a week in the office
Duration: 6 months initially

• 5+ years leading large engineering teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale banking transformation programs.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
• Experience working in Agile/SAFe environments.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead to drive end-to-end engineering delivery across strategic Banking initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams, providing technical direction, driving engineering excellence, ensuring delivery quality, and managing stakeholder relationships across business, architecture, operations, and delivery functions.

The role requires strong hands-on knowledge of modern engineering practices, cloud-native platforms, microservices architecture, DevOps, security, and large-scale transformation programs within the banking domain. Engineering Leads are expected to foster a culture of innovation, automation, quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence while ensuring successful delivery of business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple engineering squads delivering complex banking solutions.
• Define engineering strategy, standards, and best practices.
• Drive engineering excellence, productivity improvements, and technical innovation.
• Establish development standards, code quality metrics, and governance controls.
• Mentor Technical Leads, Architects, and Senior Engineers.
• Own end-to-end technology delivery across programs and releases.
• Ensure commitments are delivered within agreed scope, timeline, quality, and budget.
• Manage dependencies across engineering, testing, DevOps, architecture, and business teams.
• Support release planning, capacity planning, and sprint governance.
• Collaborate with Enterprise and Solution Architects on technology roadmaps.
• Review solution designs to ensure scalability, resilience, maintainability, and security.
• Drive API-first, cloud-native, microservices-based engineering approaches.
• Ensure adherence to LBG engineering and security standards.
• Champion test automation, code quality, security scanning, and performance engineering.
• Drive CI/CD adoption and DevSecOps practices.
• Monitor engineering metrics, technical debt, and platform stability.
• Improve system reliability, observability, and operational readiness.

The interview process will take place from next week, so APPLY NOW for immediate review.