Extensive experience designing and delivering distributed systems at scale using Spring Boot (Kotlin/Java) and modern web technologies (React/TypeScript).
Proven track record of simplifying complex architectures and defining cross-team patterns and platforms in a multi-squad environment.
Solid experience with containerised workloads and cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud also valuable), including deployment, monitoring, and scaling of microservices and web applications.
Deep understanding of secure coding practices (e.g. OWASP), privacy, auditability, and regulatory expectations in financial services or similarly regulated environments.
Strong experience with observability, SLOs, incident management, and operational excellence (logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, on-call practices).
Strong understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices, ideally using GitHub actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing at multiple levels.
Experience designing and governing APIs at scale (REST, Open API, API gateways, versioning, backwards compatibility, service contracts).
Demonstrated ability to lead technical programmes or initiatives that span multiple teams and systems, delivering measurable improvements to reliability, performance, or developer productivity.
Experience introducing and scaling the use of new tools and standards across organisations, including GenAI technologies (e.g. GitHub Copilot) with appropriate guardrails.
Proven people leadership experience: line-managing senior engineers, coaching technical leaders, and building high-performing, inclusive teams.
Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, communicate trade-offs clearly, and build consensus.