Engineering and Data Lead (PB Tech – Core Banking Modernisations) (12595) at Investec

Description

• The Engineering Lead will be responsible for overseeing the engineering efforts within their specific business unit, ensuring high-quality software development and fostering a culture of excellence. This role involves driving technical initiatives, exploring new technologies, and enhancing engineering practices within the business unit in-line with the group engineering strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Modern Software Delivery Practices
• Drive and embed up-to-date engineering methods, tools, and mindsets across the group.
• Establish non-negotiable engineering standards that align with the group’s strategic objectives.
• Elevate Developer Experience and Efficiency
• Continuously refine processes and environments to help teams deliver high-quality software faster.
• Identify and remove impediments that slow down or hinder software delivery teams.
• Foster a Learning Culture and Mentor Talent
• Provide guidance, coaching, and technical leadership to engineers at all levels.
• Encourage knowledge sharing within and across business units, ensuring best practices circulate freely.
• Own Business Outcomes Through Technology
• Align engineering efforts with business objectives so that technical innovation has a clear, measurable impact.
• Collaborate with CIOs, architects, GRC, InfoSec, analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure group-wide cohesion.
• Promote Security, Risk Management, and Compliance
• Integrate security and risk awareness into all stages of software delivery.
• Ensure teams follow robust governance practices and meet regulatory requirements
• Represent and Amplify Engineering @ Investec Externally
• Encourage and drive open-source contributions where appropriate, showcasing the group’s technical excellence.
• Support teams (and yourself) in writing about (e.g. blogging) or speaking at conferences and sharing experiences, elevating both Investec’s brand and the individual engineers’ profiles.
• Collaborate to Scale Impact
• Build effective relationships with other engineering leads, architects, product owners, and business leaders to coordinate efforts.
• Leverage the “One Investec” ideal to unify standards and approaches, reducing duplication of effort.
• Demonstrate Continuous Improvement
• Continuously assess and refine engineering processes, tools, and metrics.
• Champion a culture where experimentation, feedback loops, and iterative enhancements are the norm.
• Own and Track Progress
• Translate group engineering goals into actionable milestones.
• Regularly review team performance and adjust to keep progress on track.
• Embody the Leadership Philosophy
• “Build people first”: focus on developing talent and fostering a growth mindset.
• “Collaborate boldly”: break silos, share knowledge, and take on big challenges together.
• “Own outcomes”: ensure that technical activities map directly to business value.
• “Amplify influence”: go beyond internal duties to contribute to the broader technical community.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

Technical Experience Required:

• Principle level engineering expertise
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices and data store design
• Experience with Continuous Delivery, CI/CD pipelines, and Azure DevOps
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud (Azure/AWS), containerisation, container orchestration (like Kubernetes) and streaming architectures
• Experience with Data and Data engineering architecture and best practice

Other Qualities:

• Deep technical architecture skills with experience designing scale architectures in banking in transactional and analytical domains
• Strong technical analysis, problem-solving skills, and the ability to make well-reasoned decisions
• Clear and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• A history of delivering secure, testable, clean, and performance-oriented technology solutions
• A passion for tackling complex technical challenges
• An agile mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Skilled at providing constructive feedback to engineers and identifying security vulnerabilities
• Quick at diagnosing and resolving complex production issues.
• Competence in identifying high-calibre technical candidates during interviews
• Commitment to developing and sharing engineering best practices
• Ability to identify areas for improvement and drive positive change
• A broad perspective that considers both technical and business aspects

Core skills & knowledge

• Regulatory Knowledge as applicable to role (compulsory)
• To always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating our customers fairly (compulsory)
• Coaching & Assessment (compulsory for Line Managers and other Supervisors)

Additional attributes

• Participate in external (to Investec) technical forums & conferences
• Security aware development practices
• Approachable