Head of Product Engineering / Engineering Job at Kroo Bank (London)

Job Description

The Head of Product Engineering / Engineering will be pivotal in translating Kroo Bank product and technology vision into secure, scalable and reliable digital platforms. This role carries bank wide responsibility for the leadership and delivery of product engineering and software engineering, ensuring customer centric, resilient and compliant experiences across our systems and channels. The successful candidate will balance hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, operational excellence and regulatory obligations, delivering outcomes that create value for customers and the business.

Requirements

Lead product engineering and engineering teams to deliver high quality, customer centric features and platforms that are reliable, secure and compliant
Translate the enterprise product and technology strategy into a clear engineering strategy, roadmap and set of priorities aligned with the bank’s vision and strategy
Define, embed and continually improve modern engineering standards including secure code, quality engineering, automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, and site reliability engineering
Own day to day technical architecture decisions for digital products and platforms, working with principal engineers and architects to ensure scalability, maintainability and security
Drive platform reliability and operational excellence, ensuring strong incident management, problem management, change management and post incident review practices
Champion effective delivery practices across cross functional squads, promoting agile ways of working, outcome focused planning, clear accountabilities and the removal of delivery blockers
Embed regulatory, operational risk and security requirements into the engineering lifecycle so that controls are designed in, evidenced and sustainable
Oversee the technical aspects of vendor and partner relationships, ensuring integrations are robust, service levels are met and technology risk is well managed
Manage engineering budgets in line with financial plans, including cloud spend, tooling and third party services, ensuring transparent value realisation from investments
Build, lead and develop a diverse and high performing community of engineering leaders and individual contributors with clear career paths, coaching and succession plans
Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Operations, Risk, Compliance and other functions to align priorities, manage trade offs and ensure that engineering decisions support business and customer outcomes
Promote a culture of continuous improvement and innovation across engineering, encouraging experimentation, reduction of technical debt and adoption of modern tools and practices

What we offer

25 days annual leave
8 bank holidays
1 Kroo bank holiday (June 24th)
1 day off during the week of your birthday
3 personal days
Employer-sponsored volunteer program (up to 4 hours per month)
Mental health support via Spill
Workplace pension (5% employee contribution, 3% employer top-up)
Top-of-the-line equipment including a MacBook laptop
Support for home office setup
Access to modern workspace in Farringdon, Central London
Cycle to Work scheme
Electric Car scheme
Enhanced parental leave policy
Full healthcare for you and your nuclear family via Vitality

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