As the IIB Chapter Lead Engineer, you will build up the right capabilities in people within the IIB Chapter, equipping them with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to deliver functional excellence, and making sure that they are focused on delivering value to the business.
Depending on the team, most of our roles offer flexible working.
So what would you be doing?...
• Assisting Engineers within the Chapter with building the features that are linked to outcomes for a given value stream. They will use their knowledge to assist and lead the team to ensure technical excellence is delivered.
• Setting and defining standards and best practice along with implementing improvements to tooling
• Responsible for reducing costs while increasing the quality of IIB delivery within Metro Bank.
• Reducing Metro Banks reliance on IIB and support the migration to Cloud based Microservices
• Rationalising and simplifying solutions before and during their build
• Monitoring the level of technical debt within the platform and ensure this is well documented, encouraging solutions to be developed that minimizes the impact to technical debt accumulation
• Creating business cases for when and why platforms need upgrading and present these to ELT when necessary in an articulate manner for an audience that may not be technical
• Playing a key role into providing effective performance management processes and mechanisms for those within the chapter and measuring performance and improvement.
• Providing an inclusive environment where Chapter members have freedom and safety to innovate, experiment, and learn from failure
• Providing open and effective communication channels leading to greater knowledge transfer within the IIB Chapter
• Establishing a knowledge sharing community, where technical knowledge of the platform or other technical practices are shared, and will encourage individuals within the chapter to share their knowledge
You need to be this kind of person…
• Passionate about providing unparalleled levels of service and convenience for customers
• Able to work and learn quickly in a fast paced, fun and dynamic environment
• Prepared to stick at something – we get nervous if someone has jumped from job to job as we want people who are prepared to learn and grow
• Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do
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 courage to call out any concerns.
We always support colleagues to develop their skills. But to be successful in this job you really do need to already be able to do most of these wonderful things...
• Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all our stakeholders
• IIB Chapter Leads are technology & engineering experts recognised as such by their peers and others in the industry in their chosen fields and platforms
• Expert knowledge in the technology and engineering best practices in IBM Integration Bus technology
• You will be a master of IIB and Digital technology
• You must have knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira, Confluence and Engineering development tools
• You will have experience of working in an Agile work environment and TDD/BDD development methodology
• You will have experience of DevOps practice in their field
• You must have experience with line management, coaching, mentoring and how to build sustainable and high performing capabilities over time
• You will have amazing communication skills and a proven track record in creating fans internally and externally
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