Director, Lead Engineer & Architect (Full Stack / Blockchain)

As Director, Lead Engineer and Architect (Full Stack / Blockchain) at BNY, you lead and grow a team of full-stack engineers while staying hands-on in the code. Based in Manchester, you design and build front-end and back-end components integrated with smart contracts and the ledger layer, driving engineering excellence across complex, business-critical platforms.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow a team of full-stack engineers as a hands-on player-manager, setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and contributing code yourself
• Design and build front-end and back-end components and their integration with smart contracts and the ledger layer, maintaining high standards for clean, well-tested, maintainable code
• Drive engineering excellence across the team through automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, code review, observability, and secure-by-design practices

What you bring

• Extensive experience in financial services technology, including senior technical leadership of complex, business-critical platforms
• A proven track record as a hands-on architect and engineer who writes production code, combined with experience leading and developing engineering teams
• Broad full-stack depth across multiple back-end languages and frameworks, multiple front-end frameworks, and the judgment to choose the right tools for each problem
• Deep knowledge of distributed and microservice architectures, modular front-end architectures, reactive and responsive UX design, and API-first design
• Experience designing for high availability, scalability and resilience, including containerised and cloud-native deployment
• Strong command of modern CI/CD, automated testing strategies, and DevOps practices
• Experience working in Agile environments, with the ability to balance delivery pressure against long-term architectural health
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with credibility to influence senior technology and business leaders