Description
We are seeking a Vice President of Engineering Practice to lead and manage engineering teams, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Leading engineering teams effectively, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture to achieve project goals and meet organisational objectives.
- Overseeing timelines, team allocation, risk management, and task prioritisation to ensure the successful delivery of solutions within scope, time, and budget.
- Mentoring and supporting team members' professional growth, conducting performance reviews, providing actionable feedback, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluating and enhancing engineering processes, tools, and methodologies to increase efficiency, streamline workflows, and optimise team productivity.
- Collaborating with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
- Enforcing technology standards, facilitating peer reviews, and implementing robust testing practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
As a Vice President, you will be expected to:
- Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work of your team.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation's functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
The ideal candidate will have experience with:
- Leading large-scale data engineering initiatives on modern cloud data platforms, delivering resilient, governed, and audit-ready data products in regulated banking environments.
- Owning end-to-end data delivery across ingestion, transformation, quality, lineage, and consumption, with strong accountability for reliability, SLAs, and production stability.
- Driving adoption of standardised engineering practices (SDLC, CI/CD, controls, documentation) across multiple teams and portfolios within an enterprise data platform.
- Hands-on expertise of DBT, Databricks, and Airflow.
- Experience in managing estates through Databricks with specific expertise in unity catalogue, Delta Lakes, Databricks DQ.
- Partnering with Product, Risk, Technology Control, and Business stakeholders to shape data strategy and translate regulatory and business outcomes into scalable architectures.
- Exposure to Abinitio, Oracle, and AWS technologies.
- Understanding of the Cards ecosystem.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Deep expertise in Python, SQL, and modern data engineering frameworks, with a track record of building and governing complex transformation pipelines at scale.
- Strong understanding of data quality, metadata, lineage, and observability, and the ability to institutionalise these as platform capabilities rather than team-specific solutions.
- Experience defining and enforcing engineering standards and architectural guardrails across lakehouse-style or cloud-native data platforms.
- Proven leadership in coaching senior engineers, influencing across tribes, and driving engineering excellence in a federated enterprise model.