Engineering Lead

Posted 06 January 2026
LocationSheffield
Job type Contract
Discipline Technology

Job description

​We're looking for an Engineering Lead in Sheffield on a contract basis.

You'll need:

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant discipline.

  • 10+ years’ experience in engineering roles, with a minimum of 5 in a senior or principal engineering position.

  • Technical proficiency in Database technologies, relational, nosql, distributed sql, deployed on IaaS or part of DBaaS. Strong understanding of consumer use case and how databases infrastructure capabilities work.

  • Expertise in infrastructure components, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

  • Understanding of, and hands on experience of, micro services, software development, infrastructure automation, api development and basic application system’s design.

  • Strong understanding experience on Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Capabilities (CI/CD/CT Pipelines, Automated Testing, Code Scanning etc.) and Infrastructure as Code.

  • Industry strength knowledges of testing practices and tooling.

  • Proven track record of leading large, enterprise level projects and delivering quality solutions.

  • Strong technical leadership skills, teambuilder and influencer

  • Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model.

  • Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry.

  • Ability to liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the platform, product or service’s direction.

Apply now!