Software Engineering Lead - Data Technology Platforrms

Role overview

Candidate profile

• Be proficient and current in the engineering field, with strong judgment and respect among engineering peers.
• Design software for supportability and scalability.
• Bring pragmatic, hands-on engineering, calm leadership, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Stay constructive through ambiguity and delivery pressure without compromising quality, control, or safety.
• Collaborate widely and ensure colleagues' perspectives are heard.

Responsibilities

• Lead application development with technologies suited to the problem space and own delivery from design through release and implementation.
• Translate business outcomes and user stories into supportable software with business stakeholders and analysts.
• Prioritize backlogs, manage dependencies, and make technical debt visible and actively addressed.
• Collaborate with UX and product/design colleagues on intuitive, efficient user experiences.
• Explain technical decisions, options, risks, and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies and reduce delivery friction.
• Write and maintain infrastructure as code for CI/CD and consistent environments.
• Set expectations for code review, secure engineering, testing, maintainability, and operational readiness.
• Mentor or manage engineers, coach third-party partners, and support capability growth through feedback.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies, shared engineering practices, reference architectures, and knowledge sharing.
• Support platform maintenance, support, and evolution, focusing on operational stability and measurable business value.
• Manage the application estate, including end-of-life software, upgrades, and vulnerabilities.

About Schroders

Technology and base

• The role is within Schroders' global technology function, which develops systems and solutions to support the business.
• The description identifies the City of London as the location of the company's headquarters and says it has facilities for flexible working.