Lead Technical Application Specialist

Job Title: Lead Technical Application Specialist
Salary: £119,034 - £140,040
Location: London
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London office.

About us
 

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

About this opportunity

Exciting opportunity for a Lead Technical Application Specialist to join Markets Platform. This is a leadership role overseeing the specialist function and driving strategic initiatives. 

This role is Lead Technical Application Specialist role in the new Trade Surveillance Lab, leading a team of approx. 15 x Technical Application Specialists/Engineers critical to implementing, embedding and managing the new TradingHub application as well as maintaining and running the current application stack covering Surveillance engineering activity. The applications monitor and control surveillance across the full breadth of Capital Markets products and ensure ongoing adherence to the MARA (Market Risk Abuse Assessment) methodology across.
 

What you’ll do… 

• Define strategic direction for the specialist function 

• Manage a team of specialists, including resource allocation and performance management 

• Represent the specialist function in high-level meetings and decision-making processes 

• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in the specialist area 

• Build relationships with external partners and vendors 

• Contribute to organizational strategy and budgeting 

• Oversee resource planning and allocation for the specialist function 

• Develop and implement policies and procedures for the specialist area 

• Lead strategic negotiations with key stakeholders and vendors 

• Identify and develop strategic partnerships and collaborations 

• Ensure alignment of specialist activities with overall business goals 

• Drive cultural change and promote continuous improvement within the organization 

• Co-ordinating and Leading the technical delivery workstreams to implement a new Trade Surveillance solution

What you’ll need

• You’ll have relevant deep and broad experience of implementing and running a Trade Surveillance solution and will have been successful in a similar lead or senior supporting role.

• Deep and broad experience of task managing a team of expert Trade Surveillance technical specialists.

• Experience of a Trade Surveillance application preferably TradingHub.

• A good understanding of Markets/Treasury asset classes, products and their associated trade lifecycles.

• An appreciation of database and application server technologies and operating systems as well as database concepts.

• Experience of Data products, lineage and quality in a GCP or other public cloud environment.

• Familiarity with the concept of automated testing and process automation.

• A grounding in application and database security concepts and controls

About working for us  

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.  

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.  

We're disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.  

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:  

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%  

• An annual performance-related bonus  

• Share schemes including free shares.  

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.  

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top  

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies  

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.  

Join our journey!