Director of Software Engineering - Executive Director
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead technology and process implementations to achieve functional objectives while setting direction and governance for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation. Drive measurable improvements in speed, quality, and operational outcomes through AI-orchestrated delivery workflows, release readiness controls, and automated test modernization. Establish guardrails for validation, security, and resiliency across teams, delivering technical solutions leveraged across multiple businesses and domains. Accountable for decisions influencing team resources, budget, and tactical operations within Markets Experience Technology. Influence peer leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams. Report directly to the Head of Markets XT in the Bank Street office, London.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
- Advanced applied experience
- Experience developing or leading cross-functional teams of technologists
- Experience of leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering practices (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) across teams
- Defining operating expectations (human-in-the-loop validation, quality gates)
- Measuring outcomes
- Ensuring secure handling of sensitive inputs/outputs
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use and control expectations in engineering workflows
- Data sensitivity
- Resiliency/security implications
- Governance
- Ability to influence leaders on safe scaling patterns and reuse
- Practical cloud native experience
- Strong hands-on or close-to-hands-on experience with modern web platforms and service-oriented backends
- ReactJS / NextJS (or equivalent)
- Golang (or equivalent backend experience with strong ability to lead Go-based teams)
- AWS (production operations, reliability, and governance)
- Demonstrated ability to lead architectural modernization initiatives focused on scalability, reuse, and runtime configurability
- Track record of operating production systems with strong observability, incident management discipline, and reliability-focused leadership
- Experience with hiring, developing, and recognizing talent
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with personalization systems, recommendation/curation pipelines, or signal-driven experiences
- Familiarity with graph databases (e.g., Neptune, Neo) and API platform design for downstream tenants
- Experience with interoperability standards such as FDC3, intent frameworks, and cross-application messaging patterns
- Experience building analytics dashboards and/or integrating BI tools (e.g., QuickSight or similar)
- Experience delivering in Markets-adjacent environments with close partnership to Sales, Research, and Product stakeholders
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