Blade DevOps Lead

Blade DevOps Lead

Posted 2 weeks ago by Job Board - Jobserve on JobServe

Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
London, UK
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Duration TBC, PAYE Daily rate
Location: London (hybrid)
Client: major investment bank

Business

The Derivatives Pricing team is responsible for cross-product transactional pricing of derivatives. The development team is driven to provide world class technology to support the bank's Financial Markets business. We bring a deep understanding of the domain, a scientific approach, and innovative solutions to bear on the challenges of best servicing our customers in a highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to join an organization working with smart technologists globally in the financial market's domain

You will lead a global team of engineers to measure and improve performance and efficiency, driving deliverables through engineering excellence and effective relationship building with supporting technical service teams, up/downstream dependencies, stakeholders and vendors.

You will be expected to;

  • Lead a global team of skilled DevOps engineers
  • Design resilient, flexible and scalable solutions to accelerate delivery
  • Disrupt the status quo, push for change where it is needed
  • Build strategic relationships with stakeholders, vendors and technical services
  • Drive improvements in globally distributed infrastructure availability and performance
  • You will be an outspoken champion of Agile development principles
  • As a lead role, outstanding DevOps domain knowledge is expected
  • Experience in a large, enterprise organization

Processes

  • You will be an outspoken champion of Agile development principles
  • As a lead role, outstanding DevOps domain knowledge is expected
  • Experience in a large, enterprise organization

People and Talent

  • Build efficient hiring pipeline and build the engineering capacity in the team required for successful further evolution of the Blade, Rules, Credence and SDP platform
  • Promote core bank values in the team, grow and develop engineering and leadership talent in the team
  • Outstanding problem-solving skills, leading problem resolution for the team where necessary
  • Proactive, self-starter, autonomous
  • Ability to lead, delegate and mentor others under pressure
  • Coordinate multiple assignments, managing priorities across the team