Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead

We are looking for an Engineering Lead to join Benefact Group in our Gloucester office. Competitive salary, excellent benefits and hybrid working.

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Gloucester office.

This role balances hands‑on engineering with technical leadership and line management responsibilities. You'll be responsible for driving high‑quality engineering delivery and ensuring that products are built to our Engineering Excellence standards and meet defined business outcomes.

You'll set the technical direction for your area, coaching and developing engineers, embedding best practice, and ensuring that platforms and applications are secure, scalable, maintainable, and well‑governed.

You'll work closely with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and delivery leadership to align technical execution with strategy, while still contributing directly to complex engineering tasks.

Why join us?

What you'll be doing

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise, driving software design, development, code quality, debugging, technical debt reduction, and delivery planning.

• Define and govern engineering strategy, architecture, and best practices, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with organisational standards.

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams, fostering a high-performing culture while supporting recruitment, mentoring, capability growth, and performance management.

• Drive delivery excellence and operational maturity, overseeing prioritisation, CI/CD, DevOps practices, platform reliability, SaaS integrations, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Manage stakeholders, technical assets, and third-party partners, ensuring effective communication, governance, security, lifecycle management, and adherence to engineering and quality standards.

What you'll need to have

• Strong software engineering expertise, with proficiency in modern programming languages, frameworks, and development best practices.

• Proven experience designing and delivering complex technical solutions, ensuring high-quality and effective outcomes.

• In-depth knowledge of secure coding, software architecture, and engineering governance, with a focus on compliance and standards.

• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, driving efficient, reliable, and scalable software delivery.

• Effective technical leader and communicator, skilled in mentoring engineers and translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

What makes you stand out

• Experience operating across multiple platforms or domains.

• Exposure to cloud-native architectures and container-based deployment models.

• Experience shaping technical strategy or influencing architectural direction.

• Industry awareness.

• Experience in Azure and .NET.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it

• Hybrid working

• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

• Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 7.5% and 30%

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme

• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Full study support to gain professional qualifications

• Access to virtual GP

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26

Company Benefact Group Role IT Location Gloucester Remote status Hybrid Employment type Permanent - Full Time