EMEA Stress Testing Technology Engineering & Delivery Lead - D

Purpose of the role

Scope and context

End-to-end delivery

• Own the technology strategy and integrated delivery plan for enterprise stress testing.
• Lead delivery from requirements and architecture through implementation, regulatory submission and business-as-usual handover.
• Align scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, environments, funding and releases across parallel workstreams.
• Drive accountability, decisions and escalation across business, technology and supplier teams.

Engineering and architecture

• Provide hands-on leadership across application, data and integration architecture.
• Review solution designs, data models, integration patterns, code quality and engineering approaches.
• Oversee data sourcing, lineage, transformation, calculation, aggregation and integration across platforms.
• Drive secure development, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, resilience, performance and supportability.
• Lead platform modernisation, automation, simplification and technical debt reduction.

Team and capability leadership

• Build and develop software engineering, data engineering, architecture, DevOps, technical analysis and delivery capabilities.
• Own technical interviews, practical assessments and selection of technology candidates.
• Establish competency expectations, mentoring, career development, succession planning and continuous learning.
• Create a culture of technical ownership, collaboration, challenge and engineering excellence.

Controls and readiness

• Embed controls for data quality, reconciliation, completeness, approvals, access, change management, audit evidence and traceability.
• Coordinate technology readiness for regulatory exercises, including data collection, forecasting, quality assurance, review and submission.
• Oversee system, integration, regression, performance, reconciliation, user acceptance and dress-rehearsal testing.
• Ensure environments, data, runbooks and operational support arrangements are ready for time-critical execution.

Stakeholder and vendor management

• Act as the primary Technology interface for senior Risk, Finance and Treasury stakeholders and governance forums.
• Manage suppliers, delivery commitments, commercials, knowledge transfer and third-party performance.
• Oversee programme spend, forecasts, procurement and resource utilisation.
• Provide executive reporting and ensure sustainable ownership and support models.

Essential experience

• At least 15 years delivering complex technology programmes in banking or financial services.
• Experience building, hiring and growing high-performing software, data or platform engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on architecture and system-design capability across distributed applications, APIs, integration, data platforms and orchestration.
• Strong knowledge of testing, CI/CD, DevOps, observability, cloud, containerisation and secure software development.
• Experience delivering stress-testing, risk, capital, liquidity, finance or regulatory-reporting technology.
• Strong knowledge of data lineage, quality, reconciliation, controls, auditability and regulatory submissions.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and executive delivery skills.

Desirable experience

• A relevant degree or equivalent experience is desirable.
• Knowledge of EMEA supervisory stress tests, ICAAP, ILAAP and recovery planning is desirable.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, data lakes, lakehouses, cloud services or business intelligence tooling is desirable.
• Relevant certifications such as FRM, PRM, CFA, PMP, PRINCE2 or SAFe are desirable.