Senior Technical Lead

Metro Bank Plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A major banking institution in Greater London is seeking a Technical Lead to drive innovation and strategic initiatives across feature teams. The ideal candidate will have experience in technical leadership, particularly within financial services, and will ensure high-quality solutions are designed. This role offers a competitive salary, an annual bonus, and a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Attractive pension scheme

Healthcare benefits

Life assurance

Colleague discounts

Qualifications

• Experience as a Technical Lead or Engineering Manager in financial services.
• Strong background in technical leadership across multiple feature teams.
• Good technical knowledge of applications, platforms, and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and strategic direction across multiple feature teams.
• Facilitate collaboration to ensure coherent and integrated technical solutions.
• Engage with Tech Leads and Engineers to identify skills gaps and ensure training.

Skills

Technical leadership

Agile methodologies

Communication

Collaboration

DevOps practices

TDD development practices

Cloud technologies

Job description

At Metro Bank, we believe the best banking experience starts with people who genuinely care. We’re not just delivering banking services - we’re building trust through authentic connections. Here, our people come first; our colleagues are part of a team that values individuality, collaboration, and long-standing relationships. We are also all about balance so most of our jobs offer the opportunity for hybrid working built around your role and home life, wherever possible.

What you will do:

• Provide Leadership, oversight and strategic direction across multiple feature teams, ensuring processes and standards are followed along the route to live and ensuring high quality solutions are designed and built.
• Work with Senior stakeholder across multiple functions and suppliers to lead resolution of complex issues and challenges.
• Lead colleagues both internally and externally to Metro Bank to provide assurance to ensure coding standards are being consistently applied.
• Work with Architecture and various Engineering disciplines to ensure solutions designed align with architectural and engineering principles and strategic direction of the Bank, including participation in relevant design forums and governance activities.
• Lead discussions and work with multiple stakeholders across the organization to drive innovation and strategic initiatives, including research activities into new technologies and methodologies when required.
• Facilitate collaboration across different teams and departments, ensuring coherent and integrated technical solutions and ensuring there is a regular cadence to manage dependencies where needed.
• Participate in budget planning and resource allocation, ensuring optimal use of technical resources.
• Interact and engage with feature team Tech Leads and Engineers, identifying any skills, knowledge, or experience gaps, and ensuring delivery of training or coaching requirements to fill any gaps with the relevant Chapter Leads.
• Clearly communicate and cascade Metro Bank policy, standard operating procedures, and legislative updates to ensure team(s) are working in line with best practice and business risk is minimized.

And… we are a bank so risk is a part of everything we do. We love people who take responsibility, do the right thing for customers, colleagues and Metro Bank and have the ability to call out any concerns.

What you will need:

• Experience as a Technical Lead/Engineering Manager or Senior Technical Lead/Engineering Manager
• Experience leading a team of engineers to deliver technical change, preferably in financial services
• Strong background in technical leadership, and ability to work across multiple feature teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Good technical knowledge of applications, platforms, products and solutions
• Experience and knowledge in dealing with third party vendors
• Experience and knowledge of design practices, working with Solution Architecture and Engineering to design, document and implement technology solutions
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, DevOps practices, automation, pipelines and Cloud
• Ability to organize work effectively and split your time across multiple initiatives ensuring focus is prioritised in the required areas
• Experience and knowledge working with TDD and BDD development practices

Our promise to you…

• We will make sure that you are well-rewarded by providing you with a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits, including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, and a number of colleague discounts!
• We will give you the training to ensure you succeed in your role and plenty of internal opportunities to progress your career (around 40% of our recruitment comes from internal promotions!

Diverse teams really are the best teams. We know that candidates (especially women, research tells us) may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. We also know that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not give it a whirl? Please note that sometimes we may close a job earlier for applications if we are inundated with amazing candidates. Good luck!