Engineering Lead Risk and Controls Workstream

Engineering Lead - Risk & Controls

Rate: £515/day (via Umbrella Company)
Contract Length: 6-12 Months
Location: Hybrid - Radbroke (2-3 days onsite per week)

We are seeking an experienced and hands‑on Engineering Lead to support a large-scale Risk & Controls transformation programme
. This role will provide technical leadership, governance, and engineering oversight across multiple delivery teams working on risk, compliance, controls, integration, and application enhancement initiatives.

The successful candidate will play a key role in application modernization, regulatory‑driven technology changes, controls implementation, enterprise integrations, and technical delivery. This is a highly hands‑on leadership position requiring active involvement in architecture reviews, technical problem‑solving, and engineering governance.

• Provide engineering leadership and technical oversight across multiple delivery teams.
• Support application enhancement, modernization, and transformation initiatives.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, development processes, risk controls, and architecture best practices.
• Ensure adherence to coding standards, security requirements, deployment practices, and governance controls.
• Assess the impact of regulatory and compliance changes on applications, engineering processes, and operational controls.
• Collaborate closely with risk, compliance, architecture, audit, and product stakeholders.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex engineering and production issues.
• Guide the design and implementation of scalable integration solutions across APIs, middleware, event platforms, and external systems.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technical assessments, code reviews, and compliance reviews.
• Mentor engineering teams and contribute directly to troubleshooting, prototyping, and delivery activities.
• Drive continuous improvement across engineering practices, controls frameworks, and tooling.

• Proven experience leading engineering teams within large enterprise environments.
• Strong governance, stakeholder management, and technical leadership capabilities.
• Experience overseeing multiple concurrent technology initiatives and distributed teams.

• Strong background in backend software engineering and enterprise integrations.
• Expertise in APIs, microservices, middleware, and event‑driven architectures.
• Experience building scalable, resilient, and secure applications.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills across distributed systems.

• Strong understanding of risk, controls, compliance, and regulatory considerations within regulated environments.
• Experience managing governance‑driven technology changes.
• Familiarity with technology risk management, audit readiness, and operational control frameworks.

• Experience with AWS and cloud‑native architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and deployment best practices.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, observability, logging, and reliability engineering.

• Strong proficiency in Python and/or modern backend programming languages.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise‑grade applications.
• Understanding of testing strategies, secure coding practices, software quality, and release governance.
• Hands‑on engineering approach with the ability to contribute directly when required.

• Experience working on large-scale transformation programmes.
• Exposure to risk, compliance, or governance‑focused technology initiatives.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and enterprise engineering frameworks.
• Experience supporting geographically distributed teams.
• Knowledge of AI‑enabled engineering tools or automation frameworks would be advantageous.