Lead Engineer (Specialist) in DIGITAL ENTERPRISE SERVICES

This role is open to flexible working patterns, these may include:

• Job share
• Flexible start and end time to each day
• Part time
• Ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments
• A 50% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks
• Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and policy within the team)

Opportunities in Leeds

We're excited to be growing our presence in Leeds, a city we've been connected to for nearly 200 years! Our modern, accessible office in the City Centre offers a supportive, flexible working environment. The majority of roles, including this one, are now available in Leeds, giving you the chance to build a meaningful career outside of London while contributing to our mission from a dynamic and growing location. You'll work collaboratively with London-based colleagues in a hybrid model, with regular opportunities to travel into the London office to meet and connect together in person.

Want to learn more? Discover what makes our Leeds office such a dynamic place to work by visiting our Leeds page for more details.

A day in the role

A typical day starts with a stand-up alongside a cross-functional team of engineers and delivery stakeholders. This is where you review progress across projects and environments, surface any blockers, and align on priorities for the day - particularly around deployments, platform stability, and upcoming releases.

Next, you'll focus on hands-on technical work for the projects you're currently assigned to. This might include refining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub, implementing infrastructure changes using Terraform, or troubleshooting issues across a wide range of Azure services such as Azure Networking, Data Factory, AKS, Azure SQL Databases, or Entra ID. You'll often be working across multiple environments (dev, uat, production), ensuring configurations remain consistent, secure, and aligned with best practices.

As the lead engineer, a significant part of your role involves supporting and mentoring other engineers. You'll review pull requests, provide feedback on infrastructure and pipeline design, and guide the team towards reusable, scalable patterns, ensuring agreed engineering standards and best practices are consistently applied across projects. This might involve walking someone through secure networking design, reviewing architecture documentation, or explaining why a particular deployment or authentication approach was chosen.

If you're in the office, you'll grab lunch in the canteen with colleagues or head out for a walk if the weather is nice.

In the afternoon, you may have technical workshops or refinement calls for projects. These sessions typically focus on creating tickets that map to project requirements, solution design, security considerations, and upcoming changes to the platform, and often involve working through designs with developers, architects, and delivery leads to agree on the best technical approach.

Following these sessions, you may spend time documenting standards and best practices, creating or updating project documents, and progressing documentation tasks for tickets you're currently assigned - for example, defining a new deployment pattern, documenting environment configuration, or capturing decisions made during design sessions. This ensures knowledge is shared across the wider team and enables others to confidently pick up follow-on tasks without dependency on a single individual.

Before logging off, you'll typically tidy up the backlog, update progress on technical tasks, and make notes for upcoming meetings, such as design reviews, security discussions, or planning sessions scheduled for the following day.

Role Requirements

As part of this role you will be responsible for monitoring elements of Azure pertinent to our applications and troubleshooting any issues which may fall from there. You will have responsibility for running certain features on the platform, such as deploying golden images, managing subscriptions, building resources, or upgrades of Kubernetes. They will also help the Microsoft Power Platform and Azure Data teams with platform support and build.

The role requires good levels of development competency, experience in Agile and DevOps methodologies and the ability to inform best practice design. It will also require mentoring and peer reviewing along with advising on more complex operational incidents and problems

Minimum Criteria

We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:

• Experience of operating platforms in a controlled environment with strict change control.

• Experience in managing Kubernetes environments.

• Experience with Azure monitoring, logging, and observability tools.

• Preference to work as part of a team rather than individually.

• Wide Microsoft Azure experience and CAF knowledge.

• Microsoft Azure administration skills / certification.

• Windows / Linux Admin.

• Automation scripting (e.g. Terraform).

• Good knowledge of agile delivery methodologies as associated toolsets such as Jira

• Knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps toolchains

Essential Criteria

In terms of behaviours, we're looking for someone who will bring the following to the team:

• A high level of integrity, organisation and self-motivation with a desire for self-improvement

• The ability to build effective working relationships with others and provide challenge where appropriate

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Attention to detail with the ability to craft concise, informational user documentation

• Researching and developing solutions that expand, modernise or improve the service and technology portfolios, automate IT operations, reduce costs or increase levels of service, to demonstrate technical ownership

Desirable Criteria

It would also be beneficial, but not necessary, to have some of the following:

• Experience with SharePoint Online.

• Good .NET and C# skills.

• SSIS skills and data integration/migration software.

• In-depth experience of solution delivery using the full Software Development Lifecycle. This should include experience of working with Agile and DevOps methodologies working with continuous delivery, automatic regression testing, TDD and monitoring.

• Good knowledge of SOLR and Zookeeper

• Experience of Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 environments.

• Experience with website fundamentals including Content Delivery Networks (such as Akamai) and Content Management Systems (such as Sitecore).

Our Approach to InclusionThe Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve. At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We believe that it's by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we'll continue to make the best decisions for the public. We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns. We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed. For most roles where work can be carried out at home, we aim for colleagues to spend half of their time in the office, with a minimum of 40% per month. Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them, their team and stakeholders. Finally, we're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the 'Candidate Personal Information' under the 'Disability Confident Scheme' section of the application. Salary and Benefits InformationWe encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate. Leeds salary £72,320 - £81,360 In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

The lead Azure DevOps engineer works on the Application Cloud Services (ACS) team, within the DGCIO Central Services Division in Technology. Microsoft Azure is one of the Bank's strategic platforms with its importance being demonstrated through the segregation of the management of this technology to a dedicated team.