Engineering Team Lead (ETL)
Backbase, Adamsdown, Caerdydd - Cardiff
Engineering Team Lead (ETL)
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Backbase, Adamsdown, Caerdydd - Cardiff
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 6 Sep | Get your application in now before you're too late!
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Full Job Description
- System Design and Architecture: Lead and participate in design reviews, RFCs and architecture decisions alongside Staff Engineers. Ensure security and scalability are embedded from the start.
- Hands-on Contribution: Maintain your technical credibility through active code reviews, debugging production issues and unblocking your team. You write code, read code and understand the systems your squad owns.
- Quality and Engineering Excellence: Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD pipelines, test automation, observability and quality gates. Drive production-readiness and robust release management.
- BS Detector: Use your technical depth to spot unrealistic estimates, fragile designs or risk blind spots before they become delivery problems.
- Emergency Response: During critical incidents, jump in technically or coordinate the response. You are comfortable leading under pressure.
- AI-Native Engineering: Lead adoption of agentic tooling, LLM workflows and AI automation within your squad to accelerate the development lifecycle. Experiment with code generation, test automation and AI-assisted productivity tools. People Leadership (circa 10% of the role)
- Talent Development: Own meaningful 1:1s, performance calibration, and evidence-based career development for your squad of 6 to 9 engineers. Create tailored growth plans and act as a genuine coach.
- Team Health: Build and sustain psychological safety, team resilience and a healthy engineering culture. Detect and resolve friction early. Maintain sustainable pace even under delivery pressure.
- Hiring and Succession: Manage hiring decisions and onboarding to build teams with the right technical competencies and seniority balance. Plan for succession and knowledge continuity.
- Conflict Resolution: Mediate interpersonal or cross-team conflicts early to protect team cohesion and delivery momentum. Delivery and Execution (circa 20% of the role)
- Delivery Mastery: Optimise the squad's idea-to-production cycle time. Strengthen delivery predictability through empirical measurement, process improvement and proactive blocker removal.
- Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Domain Architects to translate business needs into technical outcomes. Push back on unrealistic scope with data, not opinion.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive improvement in delivery capability, operating models and tooling. Promote visibility and transparency through effective tracking and communication.
5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with recent production code contributions. - Strong grounding in system design, architecture patterns and modern engineering tooling.
- T-shaped profile: deep expertise in at least one area with broad competence across the full stack.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, test automation, observability and quality-focused development practices.
- Enthusiasm for AI tooling and a willingness to lead its adoption within your team. People and Leadership
- An explicit desire to lead people whilst remaining an active technical contributor.
- High emotional intelligence and resilience under pressure.
- Experience coaching engineers, running effective 1:1s and providing constructive feedback.
- Ability to create inclusive, engaging team environments with a strong engineering culture.
- Comfortable addressing underperformance constructively when needed. Delivery and Communication
- Skilled in Agile delivery methods (Scrum, Kanban) with experience managing delivery risk and stakeholder expectations.
- A strong unblocker who translates and synthesises rather than simply relaying messages.
- Confident communicator who adjusts style for different audiences and fosters open dialogue.
- Track record of building and scaling teams, processes and delivery capability.
About BackBase Backbase is the maker of the AI-native Banking OS, the operating system that turns fragmented banking operations into a Unified Frontline. Customers, employees and AI agents work as one across digital channels, front office and operations. Every actor operates from the same truth, every decision carries a full audit trail, and every capability compounds on the same foundation. We have been building banking software since 2003. Today, 150+ banks run on Backbase, supported by 2,000+ employees globally, 4,000+ certified experts and 16 offices across 5 continents. 50% of our team works in R&D, which means engineering is not a support function here; it is the core of what we do.
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/engineering-team-lead-etl-127357881