Senior Technical Lead

Senior Technical Lead

Team IT

Location Holborn Office

County Central London

Ref #24634

Closing Date 30-Apr-2026

At Metro Bank, we believe the best banking experience starts with people who genuinely care. We’re not just delivering banking services - we’re building trust through authentic connections. Here, our people come first; our colleagues are part of a team that values individuality, collaboration, and long-standing relationships. We are also all about balance so most of our jobs offer the opportunity for hybrid working built around your role and home life, wherever possible.

What you will do:

• Provide Leadership, oversight and strategic direction across multiple feature teams, ensuring processes and standards are followed along the route to live and ensuring high quality solutions are designed and built.

• Work with Senior stakeholder across multiple functions and suppliers to lead resolution of complex issues and challenges.

• Lead colleagues both internally and externally to Metrobank to provide assurance to ensure coding standards are being consistently applied.

• Work with Architecture and various Engineering disciplines to ensure solutions designed align with architectural and engineering principles and strategic direction of the Bank, including participation in relevant design forums and governance activities.

• Lead discussions and work with multiple stakeholders across the organization to drive innovation and strategic initiatives, including research activities into new technologies and methodologies when required.

• Facilitate collaboration across different teams and departments, ensuring coherent and integrated technical solutions and ensuring there is a regular cadence to manage dependencies where needed.

• Participate in budget planning and resource allocation, ensuring optimal use of technical resources.

• Interact and engage with feature team Tech Leads and Engineers, identifying any skills, knowledge, or experience gaps, and ensuring delivery of training or coaching requirements to fill any gaps with the relevant Chapter Leads.

• Clearly communicate and cascade Metro Bank policy, standard operating procedures, and legislative updates to ensure team(s) are working in line with best practice and business risk is minimized.

• Act as delegate to Heads of Engineering as and when required.

And... we are a bank so risk is a part of everything we do. We love people who take responsibility, do the right thing for customers, colleagues and Metro Bank and have the ability to call out any concerns.

What you will need:

• Experience in delivering technology change using Agile and iterative delivery methods.

• Experience leading teams of Engineers within a technology environment comprising multiple applications.

• Strong Stakeholder Management and communication/presentation skills.

• Ability to organize work effectively and split your time across multiple initiatives ensuring focus is prioritised in the required areas.

• Experience in dealing with third party vendors.

• Experience and knowledge of design practices, working with Solution Architecture and Engineering to design, document and implement technology solutions.

• Experience and knowledge working with TDD and BDD development practices.

• Proven track record of leading complex technical change.

• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, DevOps practices, automation, pipelines and cloud.

Our promise to you…

• We will make sure that you are well-rewarded by providing you with a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits, including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, and a number of colleague discounts!

• We will give you the training to ensure you succeed in your role and plenty of internal opportunities to progress your career (around 40% of our recruitment comes from internal promotions!

Important Footnote

Diverse teams really are the best teams. We know that candidates (especially women, research tells us) may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. We also know that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not give it a whirl? Please note that sometimes we may close a job earlier for applications if we are inundated with amazing candidates.. Good luck!

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