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Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Software Engineering

Capital One Nottingham, Eng Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

We're looking for a highly strategic Senior Software Engineering recruiter to directly influence the growth of a leading financial technology organisation.

This is a high-impact, full-lifecycle role where you will partner directly with Engineering leaders to solve complex talent challenges, amplify our brand, and secure top software engineering talent.

What You'll Drive

  • Strategic Talent Acquisition: Develop and execute innovative, long-term sourcing and attraction strategies to build robust pipelines of high-calibre software engineering talent.
  • Engineering Leadership Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders, leveraging your deep market knowledge of the software engineering market to influence hiring models, compensation strategy, and the long-term talent quality bar.
  • Data-Driven Influence: Utilise market insights and recruiting data to inform and influence organisational decisions related to talent benchmarking, search strategy, and pipeline investment.
  • Culture & Brand Activation: Lead our presence in the Nottingham tech community.
  • World-Class Candidate Experience: Create inspiring, high-touch experiences for every engineering candidate.
  • Recruiting Innovation: Stay ahead of the curve on emerging sourcing techniques, interview innovations, and the evolving dynamics of the wider UK engineering market.

What You’ll Bring

  • Deep Domain Expertise: Proven track record as a full-lifecycle recruiter with a deep, nuanced understanding of the Midlands software engineering landscape.
  • Strategic & Consultative Approach: Ability to move beyond tactical recruiting to think strategically about talent challenges.
  • Community Building: Experience in leveraging community involvement to build an authentic employment brand and generate pipelines.
  • Exceptional Stakeholder Management: Highly effective communication and relationship-building skills.

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office. We embrace a hybrid approach to work. You'll spend three days a week in the office (Tuesday-Thursday), with Monday and Friday being dedicated work-from-home days.

What’s in it for you

  • Competitive pension and performance-based bonus schemes.
  • 25 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure.
  • Access premium care through our private medical insurance.
  • Enhanced parental leave.
  • Up to £5,000 in funding for external qualifications.

Skills

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