Description
The Engineering Lead will be responsible for overseeing the engineering efforts within their specific business unit, ensuring high-quality software development and fostering a culture of excellence. This role involves driving technical initiatives, exploring new technologies, and enhancing engineering practices within the business unit in-line with the group engineering strategy.

Key Responsibilities
•    Drive Modern Software Delivery Practices
    Drive and embed up-to-date engineering methods, tools, and mindsets across the group.
    Establish non-negotiable engineering standards that align with the group's strategic objectives.
•    Elevate Developer Experience and Efficiency
    Continuously refine processes and environments to help teams deliver high-quality software faster.
    Identify and remove impediments that slow down or hinder software delivery teams.
•    Foster a Learning Culture and Mentor Talent
    Provide guidance, coaching, and technical leadership to engineers at all levels.
    Encourage knowledge sharing within and across business units, ensuring best practices circulate freely.
•    Own Business Outcomes Through Technology
    Align engineering efforts with business objectives so that technical innovation has a clear, measurable impact.
    Collaborate with CIOs, architects, GRC, InfoSec, analysts, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure group-wide cohesion.
•    Promote Security, Risk Management, and Compliance
    Integrate security and risk awareness into all stages of software delivery.
    Ensure teams follow robust governance practices and meet regulatory requirements
•    Represent and Amplify Engineering @ Investec Externally
    Encourage and drive open-source contributions where appropriate, showcasing the group's technical excellence.
    Support teams (and yourself) in writing about (e.g. blogging) or speaking at conferences and sharing experiences, elevating both Investec's brand and the individual engineers' profiles.
•    Collaborate to Scale Impact
    Build effective relationships with other engineering leads, architects, product owners, and business leaders to coordinate efforts.
    Leverage the “One Investec” ideal to unify standards and approaches, reducing duplication of effort.
•    Demonstrate Continuous Improvement
    Continuously assess and refine engineering processes, tools, and metrics.
    Champion a culture where experimentation, feedback loops, and iterative enhancements are the norm.
•    Own and Track Progress
    Translate group engineering goals into actionable milestones.
    Regularly review team performance and adjust to keep progress on track.
•    Embody the Leadership Philosophy
    “Build people first”: focus on developing talent and fostering a growth mindset.
    “Collaborate boldly”: break silos, share knowledge, and take on big challenges together.
    “Own outcomes”: ensure that technical activities map directly to business value.
    “Amplify influence”: go beyond internal duties to contribute to the broader technical community.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

Technical Experience Required:
•    Principle level engineering expertise
•    Familiarity with modern engineering practices and data store design
•    Experience with Continuous Delivery, CI/CD pipelines, and Azure DevOps
•    In-depth knowledge of Cloud (Azure/AWS), containerisation, container orchestration (like Kubernetes) and streaming architectures
•    Experience with Data and Data engineering architecture and best practice

Other Qualities:
•    Deep technical architecture skills with experience designing scale architectures in banking in transactional and analytical domains
•    Strong technical analysis, problem-solving skills, and the ability to make well-reasoned decisions
•    Clear and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
•    A history of delivering secure, testable, clean, and performance-oriented technology solutions
•    A passion for tackling complex technical challenges
•    An agile mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
•    Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
•    Skilled at providing constructive feedback to engineers and identifying security vulnerabilities
•    Quick at diagnosing and resolving complex production issues.
•    Competence in identifying high-calibre technical candidates during interviews
•    Commitment to developing and sharing engineering best practices
•    Ability to identify areas for improvement and drive positive change
•    A broad perspective that considers both technical and business aspects

Core skills & knowledge
•    Regulatory Knowledge as applicable to role (compulsory)
•    To always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating our customers fairly (compulsory)
•    Coaching & Assessment (compulsory for Line Managers and other Supervisors)

Additional attributes
•    Participate in external (to Investec) technical forums & conferences
•    Security aware development practices
•    Approachable

What We Value

At Investec we seek creative, talented people with passion, energy and stamina, who collaborate unselfishly.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally.