Engineering Practice Lead

Engineering Practice Lead

Location: Birmingham (3 days per week on-site)
Contract: Initial 6 months
Rate: Market Rate
IR35: Inside IR35

We're working with a Tier 1 global bank seeking an experienced Engineering Practice Lead to drive engineering transformation across a large-scale technology organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong engineering background who is passionate about improving engineering capability, driving best practice, and influencing engineering culture across software, infrastructure, operations and data teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering transformation initiatives across multiple technology domains.
• Drive engineering maturity assessments and continuous improvement programmes.
• Promote engineering standards, best practices and communities of practice.
• Partner with engineering leadership, HR and workforce teams to develop engineering capability and career pathways.
• Analyse engineering metrics to identify trends and drive measurable improvements.
• Collaborate with senior technical leaders to embed a high-performing engineering culture.

Requirements:

• Strong engineering background with experience in software, infrastructure, operations or data engineering.
• Proven experience delivering engineering transformation or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience coordinating programmes across multiple technical teams and business areas.
• Ability to interpret engineering data and translate it into actionable improvements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Previous experience within a large, complex enterprise environment, ideally financial services.

Desirable:

• Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Experience with engineering maturity frameworks and engineering governance.
• Background in large-scale infrastructure or technology transformation programmes.

If you're passionate about raising engineering standards and shaping engineering excellence within a complex enterprise environment, we'd love to hear from you.