Senior Director of Engineering

Senior Director of Engineering

Global Consumer Finance

Up to £220,000 + Bonus & Shares

London (3-4 Days Onsite)

We have partnered with a major global consumer finance business on the appointment of a Senior Director of Engineering to lead its European engineering organisation across multiple territories.

This is a newly shaped leadership seat at the centre of an ambitious, software-led transformation, delivered across markets that each carry their own financial-services regulation, with a mandate to modernise the technology behind every customer touchpoint and turn it into a driver of loyalty and lifetime value.

You'll set the technology direction and drive innovation across a large, always-on estate spanning several European markets, leading a team of over 100 engineers, product and architecture professionals within a global tech organisation of over 1,000 people.

What you'll lead:

Engineering delivery across multiple European territories, aligning teams and priorities across markets and time zones

Technology that meets differing financial-services and data-protection regimes country by country - from GDPR through to local regulatory and compliance obligations in each market

The end-to-end technology direction across customer-facing platforms - contact centre and telephony, IVR, dealer finance tooling, mobile and Salesforce estates

A significant modernisation and technical-debt agenda across the full stack

Cloud, AI and DevSecOps strategy on Google Cloud Platform, with an API-first, cloud-native way of working

A matched-pair partnership with Product on quarterly prioritisation and OKR delivery

Resilience, security and always-on continuity across a 24/7 environment

Multi-million technology budgets, vendor negotiation and capex/opex planning

Team growth, coaching, succession and inclusive culture-building at scale

What we're looking for:

Proven experience owning technology delivery across several European countries, each with its own regulatory and compliance landscape

A strong track record of building and running systems that satisfy varied, jurisdiction-specific financial-services regulation and data-privacy law

Proven years in increasingly senior technology leadership roles on large-scale consumer programmes

Track record leading engineering organisations of 100+ people across more than one country

Depth across cloud-native, headless and API-led modernisation (SpringBoot microservices, federated GraphQL/Apollo, React/Angular; AEM/Adobe and Salesforce exposure a plus)

Strong DevSecOps grounding and a compelling, well-communicated technical vision

Comfort operating in a matrixed enterprise where commercial and regulatory pressures pull in different directions across markets

Ownership of large technology budgets and vendor relationships

The Package:

Base: Up to £220,000

Strong Bonus & Shares offering

3-4 days onsite, London based

This is a complex leadership role rather than a pure "modernise the stack" brief. The scope will suit a leader operating at, or ready to step up to, divisional-CTO level. If you're interested in finding out more, don't heistate to apply!

**Due to the high volume of applications, not all applicants will receive feedback.