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UK
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Competitive

About The Role

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking an Engineering Manager in Bristol to work for our client within the Finance sector. This is initially a 12-month contract.

Our client is keen for someone to become a part of Commercial Lending as an Engineering Manager and seize a unique opportunity to influence the future of digital banking. Their mission to build a bank of the future is driven by their extensive transformation programme.

This role offers you the opportunity to work on ambitious projects within the Commercial Lending Platform, focusing on delivering exceptional digital journeys. If you're passionate about customer success, innovation, and leading transformative technology initiatives, this is the perfect opportunity for you. You'll play a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and feature-packed software solutions.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll be tasked with a variety of responsibilities that are crucial to our client’s success. This is a senior leadership level role and will blend both technical expertise with a great passion for coaching and developing people, including advocating team wellbeing.

Responsibilities
  • Management of third-party suppliers to ensure solutions are performant, secure, and resilient, and meet bank objectives and client needs
  • Lead and mentor a multi-skilled team to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions to support business goals
  • Collaborate with feature teams and third parties to identify and implement creative solutions that align with business objectives
  • Monitor and report on project progress, addressing any issues promptly to ensure timely delivery
  • Identify and mitigate risks to ensure the successful implementation of projects
  • Develop and document processes to improve engineering efficiency and service quality
  • Engage in continuous improvement initiatives, fostering an environment of learning and growth within the team
  • Supervise the maintenance and enhancement of service infrastructure, ensuring its reliability and efficiency
  • Monitor and analyse service performance metrics to continually improve our client’s offerings
  • Accept 24*7 accountability and ownership to support availability, currency and performance
  • Ensure that all engineering activities comply with industry standards and regulations
  • Foster an inclusive and collaborative team environment that promotes creativity and innovation
 

About You

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a leadership role within engineering
  • Breadth of technical understanding across software development and architecture, service operations, DevOps, and cloud
  • Strong communication skills, dynamic and adaptable, with the ability to facilitate efficient and effective decision-making
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills with a proactive and collaborative approach to finding solutions, and the ability to think strategically
  • Excellent leadership and team management abilities, with a track record of mentoring and developing talent
  • Strong collaborator, capable of building and sustaining relationships at all levels
  • Ability to develop and/or deliver budget plans for your area with guidance from senior colleagues
  • It would be great if you have experience of Cards issuing and processing, but it's not essential

About Us

Why join us?
 
  • Career coaching and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
  • Initial upskilling pre-assignment that has been accredited by TechSkills  
  • Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad 
  • Opportunity to obtain certifications from Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco and more
  • Access to the Buy As You Earn share scheme
We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 4,000 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

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