Essential experience:

- Demonstrable experience in UK Corporate Banking technology environments.

- Strong Corporate Transactional Banking domain knowledge, including business current accounts, payments integration, client servicing, fees, overdrafts and related banking journeys.

- Experience delivering transactional banking, current account, cash management or corporate digital banking capabilities.

- Experience working with or integrating into core banking platforms such as Mambu, Finacle, Temenos, Thought Machine or equivalent.

- Proven track record leading engineering teams, technology domains or delivery squads within financial services.

- Experience delivering complex, multi-platform solutions in regulated banking environments.

Technical and architectural understanding:

- Strong understanding of API-driven integration, platform-based architecture and modern engineering practices.

- Comfortable operating in a federated platform environment with multiple accountable platform owners.

- Good understanding of cloud-native engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability and operational resilience.

- Able to challenge and guide architecture decisions while remaining pragmatic and delivery-focused.

Leadership and delivery:

- Strong people leadership with the ability to build, motivate and scale engineering teams.

- Excellent stakeholder management across business, product, technology, architecture, risk and operations.

- Commercially minded and outcome-focused, with the ability to connect technology delivery to business value.

- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, shaping new capabilities and creating structure in a fast-moving environment.

AI and innovation:

- Practical experience using AI-enabled tools or practices to improve engineering productivity, quality or delivery outcomes.

- Strong curiosity about how AI is reshaping transactional banking, corporate banking technology and financial services delivery.

- Ability to identify practical AI use cases that create measurable client, operational or engineering value.

- Balanced approach to innovation within a regulated banking environment.

Personal attributes:

- Senior, credible and commercially aware technology leader.

- Hands-on enough to understand delivery detail, senior enough to operate with executive stakeholders.

- Pragmatic, decisive and comfortable making trade-offs.

- Collaborative, clear and calm under pressure.

- Passionate about building modern banking experiences and high-performing engineering teams.