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Business Unit:  Product & Channels
Salary range: £72,800 to £91,000 - DOE
Location:  UK hybrid – with travel to one of our UK Virgin Money hubs when required
Contract type: Permanent

Our Team

Our Products & Channels CIO mission is clear: combine engineering excellence, top-tier delivery practices, and outstanding service design to create superb products and services. We're on a journey to become the UK's best digital bank, focusing on digital customer journeys, engineering excellence, and empowering our people.

The Product & Channels team leads client-facing apps and web services, including the migration to a single V-App. We're transforming to enhance collaboration, encourage curiosity, and streamline operations for exceptional customer experiences. With a purpose-driven approach, we're making money happier for our customers, ensuring better security, stability, and performance.  We are also responsible to drive and transform our contact centre and stores (branch) application estate.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Engineering Lead, you’ll be responsible for line managing a team of talented Engineers and provide direction for the capabilities being built by them. This includes recruitment activities, management of team financials and ensure delivery is done using approved tools and technologies.

Build and maintain colleague desktop delivery roadmap working with the business stakeholders whilst also ensuring continued focus on Platform Health and stabilisation and building secure, resilient and observant platforms.

Lead and drive end-to-end software delivery ensuring business expectations on delivery and code quality are met.

Drive continuous improvements and improve ways of working including collaboration with relevant areas (e.g. Devops, Release Management, QA) to enable faster release and deployment cycles.

Responsible for Supplier Relationship Management tasks for our relationship with Microsoft and maintaining strong relationships with Operations teams and our delivery partners

Work with architecture team to design solutions that are secure, scalable and optimised for performance.

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members including taking part in design and code reviews, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

We need you to have

Experience in a technical lead role, leading the delivery of large and complex projects and leading the team of engineers.

Excellent communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

Excellent hands-on technical skills to help the team and solve problems at hand.

Extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform, including Dynamics 365 (Customer Service, Sales and Customer Insights), Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio/PVA and Power BI

Experience with Azure cloud platform and cloud integration.

Experience of working in an Agile environment and will champion ongoing improvements to ways of working.

Strong Engineering skills but also a background to Solution/Architectural Design

 

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

Knowledge and experience of Azure Power Platform integrations and services such as Azure Application Insights, Azure Service Bus, Functions, Logic Apps and Synapse link. It would also be beneficial to have experience in Microsoft Digital Contact Centre Platform and Open AI.

Microsoft certification: PL-600 (Power Platform Solution Architect), AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals)

Red Hot Rewards

Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.

Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 

20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 

Market-leading pension.

Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.

Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. 

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

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