Public Cloud Engineering Lead

Salary: £124,653 - £146,650
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Working Pattern: Hybrid (2 days per week in office, subject to team requirements)

We’re modernising our technology estate using cloud platforms to provide services that are fast, secure, resilient for customers, and modern, simple and sustainable for our engineers. Our Cloud Platform underpins the Group's transformation, delivering capabilities primarily on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

As an Engineering Lead, you will lead a large engineering organisation of approximately 75–150 engineers, working in partnership with a Lead Product Owner and reporting to the Cloud Platform Director.

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Apigee.

Your role will combine strategic engineering leadership, team empowerment, and modern engineering excellence. You’ll work closely with product, architecture and engineering colleagues to deliver high‑quality cloud capabilities across the Group.

• Provide a compelling engineering strategy and roadmap for cloud platform teams.
• Inspire and motivate multi-disciplinary engineering teams to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.
• Collaborate with the Lead Product Owner who defines the What and Why, while you drive the How—including engineering methods, technical decisions, and ways of working.

• Champion modern engineering approaches including agile delivery, automation, observability, platform engineering and DevOps practices.
• Encourage participation in Guilds, Communities of Practice, Inner Source, and engineering meet‑ups to drive continual improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Support teams in adopting engineering practices aligned to Systems Thinking, Service Design and data‑driven decision making.

• Talent‑spot, recruit, and develop engineers across infrastructure, software, DevOps and cloud disciplines.
• Create a learning culture with a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” mindset.
• Coach engineers and engineering managers to build a strong, inclusive and collaborative culture.

• Ensure all engineering work meets Bank standards for security, resilience, risk, and change control.
• Maximise safe empowerment and delegated decision‑making across teams.
• Work with architects and engineering communities to ensure alignment with patterns, standards, and best practice.

You will be a strategic and empathetic leader who brings:

• Extensive software engineering background (any modern programming language).
• Strong experience leading large-scale engineering teams in complex organisations.
• Proven experience in cloud-based engineering—preferably Azure, GCP, Kubernetes or API platforms.
• Deep understanding of modern software engineering lifecycle, DevOps tooling, CI/CD and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence).
• Ability to build trust, resolve technical impediments, and facilitate high‑quality decision making.

• A collaborative leadership style, able to listen, reflect and adapt.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to energise teams.
• Commitment to building autonomous teams with clear purpose and empowered delivery.
• Curiosity to learn and evolve engineering practices for better customer and colleague outcomes.
• Passion for automation, engineering quality and continuous improvement.

• Define and communicate a clear engineering strategy.
• Inspire high performance and innovation across cloud engineering teams.
• Support continuous improvement using agile and modern engineering practices.

• Ensure all engineering work meets Bank security, risk and governance standards.
• Support safe delegation and empowered decision‑making.

• Build and develop high-performing, inclusive engineering teams.
• Promote growth through coaching, mentoring, learning, and community participation.
• Act as a senior member of the wider engineering leadership community.

Reward, Benefits & What’s in it for You

As a Grade G colleague, you’ll receive:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Flexible benefits including discounted retail, cycle‑to‑work, tech and more
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Enhanced wellbeing support, including access to our wellbeing app, resources and mental health support
• Generous parental leave policies
• Flexibility in working patterns and locations, where possible

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we:

• Provide reasonable adjustments during both recruitment and employment
• Guarantee interviews to eligible disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria
• Support colleagues with tailored adjustments including working patterns, office attendance flexibility, and workplace setup

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals for diversity in senior roles, launch a menopause health package, and create the Working with Cancer initiative.

We’re committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and where every colleague feels valued, supported and able to be themselves.