Lead Enterprise Engineer Architect
Job Summary
Business Area | HOST - Technology | Version Date | Feb 2026 |
Job Title | Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect | GROUP Job Code | |
Job Family | Cybersecurity | Global Career Band | |
Job Sub Family | Cybersecurity Technology & Engineering | Enhanced Vetting/ Standard Vetting | Standard |
Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking
Our technology teams work closely with CLIENTs global businesses to help design and build digital services that allow our millions of customers around the world to bank quickly simply and securely. We also run and manage our IT infrastructure data centres and core banking systems that power the worlds leading international bank.
Our multi-disciplined teams include DevOps engineers IT architects front and back-end developers infrastructure specialists cyber experts as well as project and programme managers.
Following extensive investment across our Technology and Digital domains and with plans for continued expansion throughout 2026 and beyond we are currently seeking a Lead Enterprise Engineer / Architect to assist in the development of an Engineering Excellence Practice.
Brief overview of the business areas
Cybersecurity Technology & Engineering is responsible for fielding solutions that help defend CLIENT against a wide range of threats to the business as well as its customers clients partners and staff. The team works in concert with partner teams across CLIENT to implement novel defensive capabilities that are effective and adaptable against a constantly evolving threat landscape. The function operates under the vision: Enabling CLIENT to be safely successful everywhere the Firm chooses to do business
The Engineering Excellence and Enablement Team
We are a team of multi skilled engineers / architects who design and build integration solutions for Cyber services across CLIENT. Our overall aims are to improve the security of the bank by removing friction from the cyber services engineers consume and to improve how Cyber engineers its own services. This includes working with teams to improve their DevSecOps practices pipeline integration with cyber services and working with the Principal Engineering community across the bank to run POCs for improvements to existing services or development of new services and features. This can require small optimisations or complete reimagining of the solution and the way we achieve the overall outcomes.
What you will be doing
In addition to direct involvement with engineering teams across the bank we are also driving the adoption of engineering best practice across Cyber and are establishing an Engineering Excellence practice. We require an experienced engineer who has worked in high performing teams and has a broad knowledge not just hands on development but also organisationally and has a proven track record in driving automation efficiency quality and continuous improvement.
This is an engineering led initiative by engineers for engineers looking at how to mature and improve engineering practice both within individual engineering teams and horizontally across cyber.
Responsibilities
Assist in establishing the engineering excellence program across Cyber building a community of practice to drive consistency standardisation and a culture of automation and continuous improvement across teams.
Embed engineering efficiency improvement and engineering best practice across cyber with clarity on process system and tools. Partnering with the Engineering leads and capability owners to ensure desired outcomes are achieved.
Work with the engineering teams in setting requirements that develop services and capabilities that meet the controls needed but also appeal to a broad customer base and enable operational efficiency throughout our value stream.