Director of Platform Engineering (2 Year Fixed Term)

Job Posting Title

Director of Platform Engineering (2 Year Fixed Term)

Salary Band

£78,000 - £117,000
Grade: FS

Job Description

About the Role
As a Director of Platform Engineering, you’ll be responsible for providing strategic direction and hands-on leadership of the design, development and operations of the Societies core technology platforms, including shared platforms and colleague experience platforms.

A key focus of the role will be defining and executing the vision, strategy and roadmap for platform engineering to support ambitions of the technology department and in turn the efficient growth of the business.

You’ll develop high-performing engineering teams, foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement and champion best practices in platform engineering and DevSecOps, alongside oversee platform architecture, security compliance and operational excellence, ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable and innovative solutions that align with the technology strategy.

Alongside regularly presenting updates to senior leadership and board-level stakeholders to ensure alignment and clarity on technical initiatives, timelines, and budgets, you’ll lead strategic technology partnerships and represent the platform capability in leadership forums.

About You
As a proven leader who seeks to inspire and motivate teams, you’ll have a strong background in engineering, which includes cloud systems, distributed computing, DevSecOps, APIs and databases.

Alongside having the ability to drive efficiency, process improvement, and effective risk management across the team, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal controls, you’ll be proactive and results-driven, consistently focused on achieving objectives and driving transformation initiatives to completion.

You’ll have familiarity with technical stacks including:

• Java, Python and C++
• Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS or GCP
• CI/CD pipelines and Containerisation: Docker and Kubernetes

A proven track record of enabling organisations and individuals to achieve high performance by advocating for collaboration and continuous improvement is essential, as is a strong knowledge of the UK financial services sector, including industry emerging trends, regulatory landscape and competitive dynamics.
 

About Us

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.
 

The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.
 

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.
 

What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary

based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes: 

Financial

• Car allowance is £4,944
• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 15%, up to a maximum 22.5%) 
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution) 
• Annual performance related pay reviews  
• Colleague mortgage scheme 
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme  
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection  
• Access to our financial advisers  
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts  

Work/Life Balance

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions 
• 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays 
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday  
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based) 
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood 

Health And Wellbeing

• Private medical insurance  
• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme  
• Access to an employee assistance programme  
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s 
• Two paid volunteering days’ each year 
• Cycle to work scheme 

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at adam.curran@newcastle.co.uk

Company:

Newcastle Strategic Solutions Limited