VP Engineer

Location: Manchester (Hybrid)

Type: Full-time, Permanent

About the Opportunity

A leading Tier 1 global bank is undertaking a significant engineering transformation, focused on raising engineering standards, improving technology delivery, and continuing the growth of its UK engineering function. As part of this journey, we are seeking a highly experienced VP Software Engineer to operate as a senior technical leader across multiple engineering domains.

The Role

Reporting directly to a senior engineering leader, you will operate independently across a portfolio of engineering teams and labs, acting as a trusted technical advisor, problem solver, and hands-on engineering leader.

You will partner with Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, Architects, and senior stakeholders to identify opportunities, improve engineering effectiveness, and drive technical excellence across the wider organisation.

Unlike traditional Staff Engineer positions tied to a single team, this role provides the opportunity to move across multiple engineering functions, helping teams solve difficult problems, improve delivery practices, and adopt consistent engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a senior technical leader across multiple engineering teams and domains.
• Build strong relationships with Principal Engineers and engineering leaders across the organisation.
• Identify best practices, architectural patterns, and engineering approaches being used across teams and help drive their adoption.
• Review technical solutions, provide guidance, and offer constructive challenge where required.
• Take ownership of complex technical and organisational problems and help drive them to resolution.
• Support engineering teams in overcoming delivery, architecture, scalability, or platform challenges.
• Drive consistency in engineering processes, standards, and ways of working across teams.

What We're Looking For

Technical Experience

• Strong understanding of modern software architecture patterns, including domain-driven and cell-based architectures .
• Experience working with:
• Kubernetes
• Containerised platforms (cloud and on-premises)
• AWS
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing practices
• Platform and application security
• Modern software delivery practices
• Broad technical expertise across the full software development lifecycle rather than a narrow specialism.
• Comfortable operating across multiple technology stacks and programming languages.
• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems and provide credible technical leadership.