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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Engineer (Specialist) in DATA COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION (DCP) - **Company:** Bank of England - **Location:** Leeds, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £72,320.0 - £81,360.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Microsoft Windows, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), System Configuration, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Linux, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), Windows PowerShell, Software Maintenance, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Backend, Git, Kubernetes, Api Design, Terraform, Software Version Control, Service Stack, Microservices - **Published:** October 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5921253002 ## About the Role We're looking for someone with minimum of 10 years experience, but we don't expect new joiners to have skills across our entire technology stack. Minimum Criteria Candidates should have the following skills and experience: - Practical experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, applying software engineering principles to automate delivery and improve service operations. - A professional background in software development, with hands-on experience building, testing, reviewing, and maintaining software. - Strong practical experience with Azure and Terraform, and experience implementing CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with GitHub Actions is useful; candidates should understand how CI/CD platforms differ and be able to transfer their knowledge to the platform used by the team. - Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, or supporting Windows-based systems, together with working knowledge of Linux. Candidates should be comfortable working across both environments; deep expertise in both is not required. - Experience using Git for source control and collaborative development, and writing clear, concise technical documentation. Essential Criteria Candidates should demonstrate: - Apply sound software engineering practices to infrastructure and services, including maintainable code, automated testing, peer review, and controlled delivery. - Take ownership across the service lifecycle, balancing delivery with operability, reliability, and maintainability. - Monitor production service health, respond effectively to incidents, identify root causes, and turn lessons learned into lasting improvements. - Use observability effectively, including relevant metrics, logs, traces, and actionable alerts, to identify and diagnose service issues. - Apply a security-first approach throughout design, development, deployment, and operation. - Communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate across development and operations, and support colleagues through knowledge sharing and constructive review. - Plan and prioritise work, exercise sound judgement, and continually improve systems and ways of working. Desirable Criteria Candidates with additional experience in the following areas would be particularly valuable: - Proven experience deploying and operating containerised workloads in production using Kubernetes or a comparable orchestration platform. - Demonstrable experience designing, developing, and operating microservices or API-based distributed systems, including addressing resilience and failure handling. - Experience implementing or improving production observability with Azure Monitor or a comparable platform, and using service-level indicators or objectives to guide reliability improvements. - Experience designing, developing, or operating services backed by relational databases, including writing and optimising SQL. - Significant software development experience delivering production backend services using one or more modern technologies such as C#, Java, Python, or Go. - Experience automating and operating Windows workloads in Azure using infrastructure as code and CI/CD, and/or administering Linux systems in production. ## Description As a Lead Engineer, you'll help shape and support the Bank's technology estate, from cloud-native platforms to traditional on-premises systems. You'll collaborate across teams, lead by example, and help improve the resilience and capability of our infrastructure. This is a Lead engineering role within the Data Collection Platforms team. The team is responsible for the Bank's strategic data collection platform, as well as several other systems critical to the Bank's mission. Whilst we are looking for someone with relevant experience, we do not expect new joiners to have skills across our entire technology stack and will support you to fill technical gaps. A Day in the Role You'll contribute to the continual improvement of our technology estate, from cloud-hosted applications with infrastructure as code (IaC) and full CI/CD automation to traditional VM-based on-premises systems. You'll work hands-on, automating infrastructure deployments with Terraform and GitHub Actions, scripting with PowerShell, and improving CI/CD pipelines. You'll collaborate with engineers across teams, mentor junior colleagues, and contribute to a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement. You'll document your work clearly so that others can understand and support it. Whether deploying an Azure environment, resolving a build issue, or reviewing a pull request, you'll bring a security-first mindset and a focus on quality., This is a Lead Engineer role within the Data Collection Platforms team. The team is responsible for the Bank's strategic data collection platform, as well as several other systems critical to the Bank's mission.