Reporting into the iWPB Digital Platforms VS Tech Lead and Head of Engineering, the Engineering Lead is Accountable for the Engineering practices and deliverables at Digital Platforms level in the location. The position will work in partnership with the Digital Platforms Value Streams Leads to drive world class technology engineering and ensure engagement across all key programmes and deliverables in scope for 2025.
The role will also be responsible for: developing an Engineering and Technology strategy and roadmap for Digital Platforms. Taking in to account key technology wide priorities e.g., maintaining and developing iWPB Technology-wide micro-services hosting platform, service resiliency and management, cloud-based technology solutions and the removal of legacy systems); sponsoring and driving the continued adoption and maturation of DevOps and agile principles; and ensuring the Digital Platforms are well maintained, stable and secure maintaining and developing best in class service resiliency and management, adopting AI technology solution and driving the platforms evolution across Digital Platforms. Provide leadership and accountability across a globally dispersed population of Digital engineers embedded in a variety of agile teams and direct responsibility to form and management of engineering capabilities in Shanghai. Establish and develop strong technical leadership and relationships with architecture and platform functions to influence and agree approaches to tooling and other design principles. Ownership and accountability for the design and definition of the Digital Platforms Engineering practice and Strategy and the Standards and Governance that underpins these principles. Working with Platform Value Stream Leads and iWPB Technology leadership, providing technical leadership in driving transformational change and innovation across the Engineering landscape. Represent Digital Platforms across the broader iWPB and Technology community in relation to Engineering development, delivery and standards. Define, develop and practically implement state-of-the-art strategies to solving complex and ambiguous problems using modern set of technology platforms across multiple countries. Build a great engineering team that delivers excellent results to difficult problems across multiple functions and geographies. Design, develop and implement state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems using modern set of technology platforms, delivery disciplines and devops mindset. Global implementation and coordination of iWPB digital initiatives, working with global and regional and business / service lines leads / Technology functions leads to provide optimised global services adjusted to address regional demand. Manage the annual budget spread between designing and developing new services (Change The Bank) as well as managing and supporting existing services (Run the Bank).