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About the Role

The Distinguished Engineer is a senior group-wide technical leadership role accountable for shaping how engineering is practiced across Just Group. The role defines and governs the standards, guardrails, tooling strategy and AI-assisted engineering practices that enable all engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, scalable and high-quality technology. This role operates across domains to set direction, raise engineering maturity, influence senior stakeholders and ensure consistent adoption of modern engineering practices at Group level.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the Group Engineering strategy, roadmap and operating model with Engineering, Architecture and Technology leadership.
Set the technical direction for engineering practice across Just Group, ensuring teams work within consistent standards while retaining appropriate local autonomy.
Act as a senior technical authority for cross-cutting engineering decisions, patterns and trade-offs that affect multiple domains or platforms.
Influence Heads of Engineering, Engineering Managers, Lead Engineers and senior stakeholders to raise engineering maturity and improve delivery confidence across the Group.
Own and maintain Group Engineering standards, policies, patterns and technical guardrails across software delivery, secure engineering, DevOps, testing, observability and operational readiness.
Partner with Architecture, Information Security, Risk and Technology leadership to ensure engineering practices are aligned to governance, security, audit and regulatory expectations.
Provide proportionate technical assurance for significant engineering approaches, tooling choices and delivery practices without becoming a bottleneck to delivery.
Establish clear expectations for how standards are adopted, evidenced and measured across federated engineering teams.
Own the Group approach to AI-assisted software delivery, including standards, practices and guardrails.
Lead adoption of AI-first approaches across requirements refinement, specification-driven development, testing, code generation and engineering knowledge management.
Ensure AI-assisted engineering remains governed, auditable and accountable to human engineers and leaders.
Operate across Just Group rather than within a single delivery team, product area or value stream.
Represent Group Engineering in senior technical, governance and delivery forums where enterprise-wide engineering judgement is required.
Define and maintain Group Engineering standards, patterns, guardrails and practical adoption guidance.
Lead working sessions, communities of practice and technical forums to support adoption of modern engineering practices.
Assess emerging AI-assisted engineering tools, agents and developer productivity capabilities, translating them into safe and practical delivery guidance.
Partner with Architecture, Information Security, Risk and Technology leadership to align engineering practices with governance and audit expectations.
Coach Heads of Engineering, Engineering Managers, Lead Engineers and senior engineers on engineering standards, quality, delivery confidence and responsible innovation.
Identify systemic engineering risks or capability gaps and coordinate Group-wide improvement actions.
Create reusable artefacts, reference implementations, playbooks and practical guidance that can be applied consistently across multiple domains.
Establish engineering metrics that track quality, productivity, adoption and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Extensive experience in software engineering leadership, with a track record of shaping engineering practices, standards and technical direction across multiple teams, platforms or domains.
Proven ability to define, govern and embed engineering standards, guardrails, tooling and operating models in complex, large-scale or federated technology environments.
Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices, including cloud-native development, DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability, secure-by-design engineering and operational resilience.
Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders across engineering, architecture, security, delivery and business functions to drive consistent outcomes and adoption of strategic initiatives.
Ability to translate technical vision into clear business value, measurable outcomes and practical implementation approaches.
Recognised technical authority with the judgement and credibility to guide enterprise-wide engineering decisions while empowering teams to retain delivery ownership and accountability.
Experience leading engineering strategy, developer experience improvements, productivity initiatives, communities of practice and cross-team enablement activities.
Strong understanding of AI-assisted engineering, developer tooling, engineering effectiveness and the responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
Excellent communication, coaching and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

AI-assisted engineering
Cloud-native development
DevOps
CI/CD
Test automation
Observability
Secure-by-design engineering
Operational resilience
Developer tooling
Engineering effectiveness
Communication
Coaching
Stakeholder management

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid
Permanent
Full-time

Experience Level

Distinguished Engineer
Senior group-wide technical leadership

Education Level

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline

Benefits

Competitive salary
Pension scheme
Life assurance
25 days annual leave plus an additional day on us for your birthday
Private medical cover
Income protection
Generous and highly achievable bonus scheme
Opportunities to progress your career in-role and within the company
Free access to the Headspace app
24/7 employee assistance helpline
Trained physical and mental health first aiders
Variety of employee funded benefits available via our online benefits portal
Several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones

About the Company

We help people achieve a better later life. That’s our purpose and it’s the reason we exist. We are a fast-growing company helping customers enjoy the retirement they deserve. We do this through a variety of market leading, award-winning products and services, delivered by a diverse team of over 1,400 purpose-led colleagues who genuinely put the customer at the heart of everything we do.
This is a brilliant time to join our business. We are on an exciting growth journey to become the UK’s most loved retirement expert.

Equal Opportunity

Valuing diversity of thought and fostering a sense of belonging is critical to our business success, driving innovation and balanced decision making. Our work on DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) aims to deliver a brilliant employee experience underpinned by a sense of belonging, where our people feel proud to work at Just.
We remain committed to our publicly disclosed HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter and Race at Work Charter targets and support a wide range of employee network and events, championing issues including intergenerational working, social mobility and neurodiversity.