Global Head of IT Engineering

IT
April 4, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Global Head of IT Engineering

Company: Randstad

Job description: Global Head of IT EngineeringMy leading high street bank is looking for a Global Head of It engineering to undertake a 12 month contract whilst they recruit the role on a perm basis. This is a HANDS ON leadership role and you will have at least 10-15 years technical experience. Financial services experience is preferred but not essentialEssential Skills

  • Leading an engineering function in a large financial services company or similar relevant experience leading 1000+ FTE organisation
  • “Hands on” engineering background (10-15 years) with experience in an individual contributor engineering role (as opposed to a people manager with experience in engineering teams)
  • Technical know-how working with application modernisation, Agile, DevOps & SRE
  • Delivery focused, strategic and forward looking
  • Achieving transformation in a large, complex multinational organisation with proven ability to improve developer productivity (through automation and advanced technical skills)
  • Ability to think laterally and innovatively and find creative solutions, with a proactive approach to problem solving and delivery
  • Able to work within an ambiguous environment, prioritise and reconcile competing demands and resolve complex issues
  • Experience of working in a highly regulated environment
  • Great attention to detail with to support risk identification and management
  • Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives
  • Nurturing change in ways-of-working throughout an organisation and internationally across different cultures
  • Strong communicator and a natural diplomat

Key Duties

  • Accountable for establishing and driving the Engineering strategy as part of the overall Digital Channel strategy
  • Responsible for CMB ExCo level stakeholder management for Digital Engineering
  • Communicate overall strategy, forming the delivery approach and breaking down business directives into technology goals and engineering outcomes
  • Prioritisation of outcomes within the engineering strategy to ensure overall Technology and Digital strategy objectives can be met
  • Bring transparency of engineering activities to the business
  • Contribute to architecture by asking the right questions to ensure architecture meets the business needs
  • Drive cultural change across the Engineering community to support our transformation journey
  • Accountable to the Head of Wholesale Technology Digital for successful business management of the function and as such will be required to act as delegate for the Head of Wholesale Digital where required
  • Accountable for embedding and maturing the DevOps and Agile ways of working across Technology including promoting modern ways of working changes across the team and uplift in methodology
  • Drive engineering transformation through E2E automation Workflow (CI/CD), Automated Testing, Observability and Alerting and Reusability of Assets within Wholesale Digital (including our API estate)
  • Responsible for delivering stability and resilience improvements, including an overall reduction in outages and incidents across all services
  • Ensuring we have the right talent, in the right place to make our organisation Future Fit

My client offers hybrid working with 2 / 3 days a week on site in London though this is flexibleIf you are interested then please get in touch ASAP to find out more about this great opportunity as I have interview slots ready to be filled.Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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Location: London

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