Engineering and Delivery Lead, Asset Servicing

As Engineering and Delivery Lead for Asset Servicing, you will shape engineering capability and end-to-end technology delivery across a complex financial services portfolio.

You will work collaboratively with Product, Operations, Architecture, Risk and Control, Quality Assurance, Data and Production Support teams to create secure, resilient and scalable solutions.

Together, you will modernise platforms supporting corporate actions, income processing, client elections, entitlement calculation, reconciliations and client reporting.

This is an opportunity to join a supportive and trusted community where you can connect business priorities with sustainable technology outcomes.

What we'll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days' volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Shape the Asset Servicing engineering roadmap together with Product and Architecture, balancing business change, platform modernisation, resilience and technical debt while supporting shared enterprise standards
• Oversee delivery commitments, budgets, forecasts, capacity and supplier outcomes, working collaboratively to establish achievable plans, transparent milestones and trusted ownership
• Embed secure development, code review, automated testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery and observability, supporting reliable releases and responsive operational readiness
• Improve straight-through processing through dependable data quality, workflow orchestration and exception management, cooperating with Product and Operations to deliver shared client, efficiency and control benefits
• Oversee technology risk and remediation, working together with Production Support to strengthen reliability, recoverability, incident response, data protection and auditability
• Guide and nurture multidisciplinary engineering and delivery teams across locations, sharing knowledge, connecting skills to demand and creating an inclusive culture of trust and responsibility

Your skills and experience

• Proven experience overseeing software engineering and complex technology delivery within financial services (specifically in Asset Servicing), supporting multiple teams, substantial change portfolios and trusted senior stakeholder relationships
• Extensive understanding of Asset Servicing, particularly corporate actions and income processing, or closely related securities services experience, with a commitment to building and sharing domain knowledge
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, application programming interfaces, messaging, event-driven processing, data management, automated testing and modern delivery toolchains, supported by a relevant technical qualification or equivalent practical experience
• Proven experience delivering platform modernisation and complex integration within regulated, high-availability environments, together with an understanding of technology risk, operational resilience, audit remediation and production readiness
• Extensive experience overseeing investment planning, financial management, resource allocation and supplier delivery, with a responsible and methodical approach to translating business priorities into achievable outcomes
• Collaborative and inclusive people management skills, with the interpersonal capability to nurture teams, connect stakeholders and communicate clearly across business and technology communities
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs