Metrics and Reporting Senior Tech Lead

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Business Unit: Products & ChannelsSalary Range: £67,200 - £91,000 - per annum DOE + red-hot 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, top-tier delivery practices, and outstanding service design to create superb products and services. We're on a journey to become the UK's best digital bank, focusing on digital customer journeys, engineering excellence, and empowering our people.

The Product & Channels (P&C) team leads client-facing apps, web services and contact centre capability. We're transforming to enhance collaboration, encourage curiosity, and streamline operations for exceptional customer experiences. With a purpose-driven approach, we're 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 you'll 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 non-production 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 cloud-based databases such as oracle , IBM DB2, ßAWS 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 non-technical stakeholders.
• Commitment to fostering an environment of innovation and continuous improvement.

It's a bonus if you have but not essential

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

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're 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 we're 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 MoneyOur 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. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

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 we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're 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 pre-employment checks - we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.

Advertised: 24 Feb 2025 GMT Standard Time
Applications close: 09 Apr 2025 GMT Daylight Time