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About the Role

As a Lead Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping and supporting the Bank’s technology stack, from cloud-native platforms to traditional on-premise systems. You will collaborate across teams, lead by example, and help drive innovation and resilience in our infrastructure. This role contributes to the Bank’s mission by helping to modernise and secure its technology estate, building resilient, scalable infrastructure to support critical services across the organisation.

Responsibilities

Contribute expertise towards the continual improvement of the technology stack, ranging from complex cloud-hosted applications applying IaC and full CI/CD automation, to more traditional VM-based on-premise systems.
Automate infrastructure deployments using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
Script in PowerShell.
Improve CI/CD pipelines.
Collaborate with engineers across teams.
Mentor junior colleagues.
Contribute to a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.
Document work clearly, showcasing it to team members and ensuring others can understand and support the work.
Deploy a new Azure environment.
Solve build issues.
Review pull requests.
Bring a security-first mentality and a drive for quality and innovation.

Requirements

Strong practical knowledge and experience of GitHub Actions.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of Terraform.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of Azure.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of PowerShell.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of using git for source control.
Demonstrable experience writing clear and concise documentation.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Strong organisational skills.
Comfortable experimenting and learning from failure.
Ability to plan, schedule, and manage a demanding workload.
Professionalism, self-motivation, and a desire for continuous improvement.
Understanding and ability to provide quality, automated testing as you develop.
Demonstrate a security-first focus, baked-in not bolted-on.
Strong practical knowledge and experience of deploying and configuring Windows based systems in Azure via Github Actions and Terraform.
Good practical knowledge and experience of SQL and Azure Monitoring.
Software development experience using C# and SQL Server.

Skills

GitHub Actions
Terraform
Azure
PowerShell
Git
Documentation
Written communication
Verbal communication
Organisational skills
Experimentation
Learning from failure
Planning
Scheduling
Workload management
Professionalism
Self-motivation
Continuous improvement
Automated testing
Security-first focus
Windows based systems
SQL
Azure Monitoring
C#
SQL Server

Location

Leeds
London

Work Type

Permanent
Full time
Flexible working patterns
50% in-office attendance requirement
Compressed hours
Working from abroad policy

Experience Level

Lead Engineer

Salary/Compensations

London salary: £80,320 - £90,360
Leeds salary: £72,320 - £81,360

Benefits

Non-contributory, career average pension giving a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of annual salary for every year worked.
Option to increase pension to 1/65th or decrease to 1/105th in exchange for salary through flexible benefits programme.
Discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
Private medical insurance.
Income protection.

About the Company

We are the UK's central bank - and we are a bank like no other; known by our peers for our world-leading thinking on policy and strategy.
Our mission is to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability. We seek to keep prices stable and people's money safe.
We know our work matters to people, to families, up and down the UK.
We are driven by curiosity and the desire to do important, challenging work.
It takes a great team to run the Bank of England. We rely on each other to play our part.
We benefit from a collaborative culture and long-established flexible ways of working, supporting our colleagues balance their work and personal lives.
We strive to be a place where people feel they belong and have equal access to opportunities, because different perspectives helps us make the best decisions for the public.
There's much to gain from working with us - from career defining work at the heart of the UK economy, being part of a fantastic team, and a rewarding compensation package.
Join us and find a bank like no other. Together, we can make a difference.

Equal Opportunity

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion.
We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.
At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work.
We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.
We believe that it’s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we’ll continue to make the best decisions for the public.
We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns.
We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.
For most roles where work can be carried out at home, we aim for colleagues to spend half of their time in the office, with a minimum of 40% per month.
Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them, their team and stakeholders.
We're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme.
The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance.
As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited.
The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful.
Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.