Senior Technical Lead

Business Unit: Products & Channels
Salary Range: per annum DOE redhot benefits
Location: Hybrid working with regular travel to either Glasgow Newcastle or Manchester hub.
Contract Type: Permanent Full Time

Live to inspire change. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team

Our Products & Channels CIO mission is clear: combine engineering excellence toptier delivery practices and outstanding service design to create superb products and services. Were on a journey to become the UKs best digital bank focusing on digital customer journeys engineering excellence and empowering our people.

The Product & Channels (P&C) team leads clientfacing apps web services and contact centre capability. Were transforming to enhance collaboration encourage curiosity and streamline operations for exceptional customer experiences. With a purposedriven approach were making money happier for our customers ensuring better security stability and performance.

A Senior Infrastructure Tech Lead plays a vital role in leading the delivery of infrastructure migrations identifying customer issues measuring and analysing journey and infrastructure performance and promoting engineering excellence with a clear focus on building and supporting a resilient infrastructure stack.

What youll be doing

• Design and deploy secure scalable and robust infrastructure patterns for application and database tiers.
• Define the migration strategy for the legacy application tier and database technology.
• Implement and optimize the on prem and public cloud infrastructure for best cost performance and security.
• Manage and troubleshoot infrastructure issues in production and nonproduction platforms.
• Collaborate with IT security Risk and control team to monitor and ensure the infrastructure security.
• Offer guidance in infrastructure migration techniques including bulk data migration into the cloud.
• Perform cloud server tasks including security configurations troubleshooting and evergreen patching implementations.
• Work closely with the development Solution architect and infrastructure team to ensure cloud solutions meet company standards of reliability.
• Implement and automate security controls governance processes and compliance validation.
• Manage disaster recovery service introduction for the new platform and resilience testing for the infrastructure stack.

We need you to have

• Proven leadership experience in a technical role with a strong background in driving technical delivery.
• 5 years working in complex infrastructure build specifically cloud migration of application and database a working knowledge of API platforms
• 5 years working in cloud platforms such as AWS Azure and Openshift
• Experience in managing the traditional cloudbased databases such as oracle IBM DB2 AWS RDS Azure SQL and COSMOS DB.
• Proven experience of leading migration and infrastructure design
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex migration challenges and provide a migration approach with minimal customer impact
• Experience in developing and implementing performance measurement frameworks.
• Financial management skills and experience managing team resources.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical information to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Commitment to fostering an environment of innovation and continuous improvement.

Its a bonus if you have but not essential

• An understanding of the financial industry regulatory requirements and security standards relevant to digital banking.

And theres no waiting around youll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this roleIf were lucky to receive a lot of interest we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

Were all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
Were making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UKs best digital bank. As a fullservice digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years were a workforce to be reckoned with. Were putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in peoples lives. Were customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose Making You Happier About Money. Our customer centric culture means that were able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. Were committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader were committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application contact our Talent Acquisition team

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but well need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If youre successful in securing a role with us there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime it requires enhanced preemployment checks well ask for six years of regulatory references and once in the role youll be subject to periodic employment checks.