Glocomms Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Engineering Lead

Location: Edinburgh, UK (hybrid)

Contract: 12 months initially

Role Overview

The Engineering Lead is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving engineering excellence across multiple value streams, including Retail, Workplace, and Customer Care. This position oversees the full software development lifecycle, ensuring high-quality, secure, and scalable delivery of business-critical features. You will play a key role in shaping the technology strategy, fostering innovation, and aligning engineering outcomes with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the engineering strategy across customer engagement channels, including microservices, cloud-native platforms (AWS), and DevSecOps.
• Lead platform engineering initiatives and architectural governance across value streams.
• Ensure rapid and reliable delivery of business features with measurable outcomes (e.g., user engagement, transaction volumes).
• Shape and lead large-scale transformation programmes, aligning technology solutions with customer goals.
• Collaborate with account architects to present unified architectural visions and secure stakeholder buy-in.
• Represent engineering in governance forums, ensuring compliance, security, and operational resilience.
• Build high-performing, cross-functional engineering teams aligned with agile delivery models.
• Partner with business stakeholders across the business
• Champion platform engineering accelerators to drive innovation and client retention.
• Identify opportunities for technology-led business value creation and differentiation.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 2-3+ years in senior technology leadership position within an SME
• Proven ability to advise and engage with C-suite stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Demonstrated success in leading technology strategy and solutioning for large-scale programmes.
• Expertise in microservices architecture and cloud-native technologies (AWS).
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Python, Angular, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Exposure to frontend frameworks and micro frontends.

If you are interested please apply via LinkedIn or directly on our websites.

Due to a high volume of interest we may not be able to contact all applicants.