Engineering Lead, Equals

• You are an experienced engineering leader who thrives in complex, evolving environments
• You are comfortable operating across complex systems, new platforms, third-party vendors, and internal teams, bringing structure and clarity where there is ambiguity
• You are motivated by building strong foundations: clean integrations, scalable platforms, and systems that make the organisation faster, safer, and easier to run
• Proven experience leading engineering delivery for internal platforms, integrations, or digital transformation initiatives
• Strong background in API design and integration, including RESTful services, authentication, and versioning strategies
• Experience of Node.JS
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, serverless, and messaging systems
• Deep experience working in AWS-centric environments and modern cloud-native architectures
• Track record of integrating third-party SaaS platforms into regulated or complex environments
• Strong understanding of non-functional requirements including security, resilience, auditability, and compliance
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills, able to explain technical decisions and trade-offs to non-technical audiences

Desirable

• As Engineering Lead for Digital Transformation, you will play a critical role in delivering this transformation agenda
• This is a senior, hands-on engineering leadership role focused on integration, automation, and platform enablement rather than customer-facing product features
• You will lead technical execution across multiple transformation initiatives, ensuring that new tools, vendors, and internal platforms are integrated cleanly into our core architecture. The role is AWS-centric, with a strong emphasis on APIs, event-driven systems, and scalable integration patterns
• Working closely with Product Managers, business stakeholders, and central engineering teams, you will ensure that transformation delivery aligns with long-term technology strategy, security, and regulatory requirements
• Own the technical delivery of digital transformation initiatives across Finance, HR, Compliance, Operations, and Commercial
• Provide hands-on leadership across integration, automation, and platform work, setting clear technical direction and standards
• Design and oversee API-first and event-driven architectures that enable scalable, loosely coupled systems
• Ensure all transformation solutions align with core platform principles, security requirements, and regulatory obligations
• Lead the integration of third-party SaaS tools and vendors into the Equals Railsr ecosystem using robust APIs, messaging, and event streams
• Drive adoption of event-driven patterns to reduce coupling, improve observability, and accelerate change
• Own integration standards, including API design, versioning, authentication, error handling, and monitoring
• Partner with data and platform teams to ensure consistent data ownership, governance, and interoperability across systems
• Lead and mentor transformation-aligned developers, setting a high bar for quality and delivery
• Work closely with Product Managers embedded in Digital Transformation teams to translate business problems into robust technical solutions
• Collaborate with central platform, security, and data teams to ensure alignment and avoid siloed delivery
• Act as a senior technical partner to stakeholders across the business, helping them understand trade-offs, constraints, and opportunities
• Ensure transformation delivery reduces operational risk by removing manual processes and strengthening controls
• Embed observability, logging, and monitoring into all integrations and workflows
• Continuously improve engineering practices, tooling, and patterns as transformation scales across the organisation
• A rare opportunity to shape the technical foundations of a large-scale digital transformation programme
• High-impact role with visibility across technology and senior business leadership