Platform Lead in RTGS Reporting and Analytics; FTC

Data Product Lead, RTGS Technology, Technology Directorate

FTC - 9 months, potential for extension

Full time

Location:
Leeds

An exciting opportunity to lead the delivery and operations of our primary RTGS data analytics platform. RTGS settles on an average day £800 billion and is critical national infrastructure. R&A provides data insights to operators and participants of RTGS. You will have 8-10 direct reports, who are the technicians who develop and maintain this key component of the overall RTGS ecosystem.

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

• Job share
• Flexible start and end time to each day
• 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

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.

Your typical day might begin with a review of system health and incident reports, ensuring the Reporting and Analytics (R&A) data platform is operating with resilience and precision.

Later you might have a 1:1 or team catch up with your team members to align on live operations, engineering, risk and change management.

As you are responsible for delivery of change initiatives through your team, you will spend some time reviewing Jira tickets and delivery plans.

If an important incident has occurred, you attend the Major Incident Management (MIM) meeting. You are also a key contributor to the post-incident review process to ensure lessons are embedded into practice.

As a Senior member of the RTGS Technology team you will report to the RTGS CNI Product Lead. You are an integral part of the team running our dedicated critical RTGS systems.

You will be an escalation point for your services. You will be responsible for talent management and career development for this area.

The role requires a team leader who demonstrates a collaborative and inclusive style to guide colleagues and deliver on business outcomes. As part of our Business-as-Usual Leadership Team you'll be a champion and role model for Technology's values.

This is a people management role. You will be responsible for day to day management of the team and for defining roles and responsibilities. You will develop your team through sharing information effectively, coaching and communicating a clear vision to ensure that your staff are productive, engaged and motivated to deliver the area's aims. This will include setting clear goals and smart stretching objectives that are aligned to those of the team, division and directorate.

You will also be responsible for managing all staff-related matters that may arise including performance, absence and sickness.

• 3 years' experience with one or more of MS SQL, Jira, Azure SQL, Power BI, Synapse.
• Experience of working in an operational environment and making real time technology decisions.
• Implementing technology change and guiding and empowering a team through change.
• Balancing supply (resource capacity) against demand of varying sizes - service support, large scale investment projects, and small change requests.
• Full systems/software development lifecycle, including successful delivery through agile methodologies, e.g. Scrum and SAFe.
• Ensuring that best practice is deployed in delivery and support of the RTGS solutions.

• The development and operations of critical financial services applications…