Overview
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Excellence Lead to help shape and mature our Cyber Engineering organisation. This role is focused on building a strong engineering culture grounded in automation, standardisation, and continuous improvement across multiple teams.
You will play a key role in defining how engineering is done across Cyber — driving consistency in tooling, pipelines, patterns, and practices while enabling teams to deliver faster, safer, and more efficiently.
This is a highly collaborative role, working across engineering, product, and architecture teams to establish scalable, reusable, and secure engineering standards that improve overall delivery performance and developer experience.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Excellence & Standards
- Help establish and evolve the Engineering Excellence programme across Cyber
- Build and nurture a community of practice to drive consistency, standardisation, and continuous improvement
- Define, document, and promote engineering best practices across teams
- Identify and implement engineering standards, patterns, and ways of working that improve efficiency and quality
- Facilitate the design, creation, and adoption of standard build and deployment pipelines across Cyber
- Partner with engineering teams to improve CI/CD maturity and automation adoption
- Ensure engineering processes and tooling are efficient, scalable, and aligned to organisational needs
- Drive automation-first principles across infrastructure and application delivery
- Promote cross-functional reuse of engineering assets across teams and products
- Champion a “build once, use many times” approach to platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure
- Improve time-to-market by increasing reuse and reducing duplication across teams
- Engage across Cyber and wider business functions to ensure alignment of engineering approaches
Product & Requirements Engineering
- Work with engineering and product teams to define requirements for secure, scalable, and operationally efficient services
- Ensure non-functional requirements (security, reliability, scalability, compliance) are embedded into product design
- Support standardised product selection approaches to ensure engineering suitability and operational readiness
Agile Coaching & Engineering Culture
- Coach and support Agile teams to adopt engineering best practices and standard patterns
- Promote a strong focus on customer-centric engineering (“concept to product to customer”)
- Encourage inner-sourcing, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across teams
Leadership & Technical Influence
- Partner with Engineering Leads and Capability Owners to ensure alignment and delivery of engineering outcomes
- Influence technical direction across multiple teams and domains
- Provide guidance on engineering quality, design authority, and delivery standards
What You Will Bring
- Strong DevOps and platform engineering experience, both hands-on and at design/architecture level
- Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
- Extensive experience as a Senior Engineer, Technical Architect, or similar senior technical role
- Proven track record of leading engineering improvements in large, complex organisations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with the ability to assess technical, commercial, and regulatory constraints
- Experience operating in high-change, high-scale, matrixed environments
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills across distributed/global teams
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive delivery outcomes
- Strong understanding of systems engineering, requirements management, and scalable solution design
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills at senior levels
- Fluent written and spoken English, with ability to collaborate across diverse global teams
Nice to Have
- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries
- Exposure to Cyber Security engineering practices, tooling, and standards
- Experience working in environments with strong compliance and governance requirements
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