Shared Services Platform Lead, Economic Crime Technology

Closing date for applications: 03/08/2026

Location London, United Kingdom

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Remote / On-site Hybrid

You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues.

Senior Manager

This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.

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Job description

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Shared Services Platform Lead, Economic Crime Technology

We’re looking for someone who has previously built Fraud or AML systems, with real influence and exceptional organisational skills to lead us to agreed targets

You’ll own the full lifecycle of the Economic Crime Shared Services platform across the bank

You’ll be able to really make this role your own, allowing excellent exposure for you as this role operates with a wide remit

You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a minimum 2 days per week working from the office

What you'll do

We’ll be asking you to set the strategic direction, architecture, and engineering standards for the Shared Services platform, ensuring services are resilient, compliant, scalable, and fit for purpose in a highly regulated environment. You’ll be accountable for the end-to-end technology platforms supporting the shared services function within Economic Crime, spanning Fraud, AML and Screening.

As well as this, you'll lead the adoption of cloud-native architectures, alongside event-driven real-time decisioning capabilities and API-enabled, microservices-based ecosystems. You'll drive the simplification of the legacy technology estate and vendor rationalisation to enhance agility, scalability, and operational efficiency.

You’ll also be:

Leading large-scale engineering teams, fostering strong software engineering practices across continuous integration and continuous delivery, DevSecOps, and automation to drive high-quality, secure, and scalable technology solutions

Taking ownership of the financial, commercial and flow performance of the platform

Providing deep domain expertise across Fraud and AML to shape technology decisions

Managing the platform risk culture, making sure that teams effectively collaborate to mitigate risk

Delivering the regulatory reporting and managing the relevant budgets provided

The skills you'll need

In this role, you’ll need to have in-depth domain or platform product knowledge and experience. Operational risk management, financial management, collaboration and negotiation are all important elements of this role, as is strong commercial acumen with an acute understanding of the business landscape.

You’ll also be expected to have:

Strong leadership skills, including Agile and servant leadership experience

Architecture, design and engineering skills, relevant to the specific platform

Experience of working and running high performance programmes, projects and teams

Your benefits breakdown

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month. +10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension. up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off. 3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about. 3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

Total rewards package

Welcome to our Bishopsgate hub

Based only a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street Station, the central location of this office makes working there incredibly convenient. Everything you need is close by, so you can run errands, go to the gym, and socialise with friends and colleagues before and after work.

Bishopsgate recently underwent a multi-year refurbishment programme to improve spaces and facilities as well as become more sustainable.