Head of Value Stream Engineering
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We have been awarded the “Most Loved Workplace”! At Metro Bank, people come first – our culture is all about bringing the best out in our colleagues, and making sure everyone feels valued, respected, seen and included. We strongly believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace and to find the very best person for the job, we always look across a wide range of diverse communities. What you will do:
- With the support of the Director of Engineering and Transformation, work closely with the product manager / owners to relentlessly focus on customer outcomes, and Technology Leadership to drive forward technology quality, standards and innovation.
- Ensure the technical engineering deliverables produced within the Value Stream are of high quality, and that they adhere to the processes and Engineering best practices and standards.
- Optimise the flow and delivery of work within a value stream to deliver the agreed strategic and business outcomes.
- Lead the overall planning and execution of complex solutions across the Feature Teams to meet our customer needs.
- Line manage Feature Team Technical Leads and Chapter Leads, providing leadership direction, career guidance and coaching.
- Establish and maintain relationships with third party providers where necessary offering direction, support and ensuring strategic alignment.
- Ensure technical debt and enablers are captured within the Chapters and Value Streams and these are regularly reviewed and prioritised for delivery.
- Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all our stakeholders.
- Experience with processes and Engineering best practices and standards (e.g. quality gates and thresholds, test code coverage, code reviews etc).
- Experience with effective technical debt management across multiple feature teams.
- Experience writing and maintaining large scale, production software in a fast changing environment with rapid release cycles.
- Expertise in test driven development, broader testing and QA concerns.
- Experience of project working and professional Agile software development processes.
- Experience working within Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)/Scrum at Scale (SoS)/Nexus or any other Agile scaling framework in organisations or function areas.
- We will make sure that you are well-rewarded by providing you with a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits, including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, and a number of colleague discounts!
- We will give you the training to ensure you succeed in your role and plenty of internal opportunities to progress your career (around 40% of our recruitment comes from internal promotions!).
- We are also all about balance so most of our jobs offer the opportunity for hybrid working built around your role and home life, wherever possible.
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