Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary Range: Up to £90,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: UK Remote
Don’t settle for dull. Live a life more Virgin.
Our Team
In Products & Channels we are proud that we are the team which deliver the digital capabilities that enable our customers to engage with their finances when and how they want to. We deliver across web and mobile channels across a range of technologies. Being digital and on the go has never been so important – We love what we do and it’s truly an exciting time to join the team!
We’re looking for a Java & Microservices Senior Technical Lead with significant practical working experience in development, quality assurance and infrastructure within enterprise organisations. A natural who can motivate and influence people across business and technology domains, whilst leading Engineering initiatives and teams. You'll have the ability to plan, co-ordinate and lead engineers on larger projects utilising relevant tools and your vast experience of interacting with both business and technical functions to align the requirements of a project to system and technical requirements.
What you’ll be doing
Delivering in delighting colleagues and customers using your experience in platform building, including the design, development, architecture, delivery, and maintenance of a cloud platforms.
Providing oversight in the setup and maintenance of scalable, highly available, and recovery-enabled cloud platforms.
Aligning our cloud strategies with broader business goals and digital transformation initiatives and delivering CI/CD capabilities across the organisation.
Using advanced knowledge of cloud technologies, digital transformation strategies, and software development life cycles (SDLC) to leading diverse engineering teams, fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
Demonstrating experience of regulated cloud environment to provide SME expertise in evaluating complex delivery risks and issues accurately and objectively.
We need you to have.
Experience in leading a team and building secure and scalable microservices architecture leveraging Java and the Spring boot framework
Strong understanding of automation principles to help us delight our colleagues and customer by making our delivery pipelines quicker and seamless, leveraging the following technologies: Ansible, Terraform, Helm, PowerShell, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Go CD, and GitOps.
Full stack development skills in JavaScript/NodeJS, Python, C#/.NET Core, Bash, PowerShell, JSON and YAML to advance our digital propositions, demonstrating a cloud engineering mindset.
Ability to lead cross functional teams, demonstrating excellent experience in containerisation and container orchestration using Microsoft Azure, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
Service availability mindset, to deliver safe and highly available digital services for our colleagues and customers using your deep understanding of standard IT technologies and services: IP Networking, DNS, Certificates, Monitoring & Alerting.
Deep understanding of security threats, Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST).
Experience in setting technical direction to develop key behaviours and approaches across teams, to increase adoption of ‘shift-left’ mindset.
Key stakeholders’ engagement experience on formulating a migration strategy for moving live workloads into the cloud platforms within a regulated environment.
It’s a bonus if you have but not essential.
Multi cloud vendor experience (Azure, AWS, GCP).
Experience of working in agile ways of working.
Capacity management and FinOp exposure.
Red Hot Rewards
Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
Market-leading pension.
Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.
Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team
Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks