Vallum Associates

Engineering Lead

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This role is for an Engineering Lead with a contract length of "unknown" and a pay rate of "unknown." Requires a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, 10+ years of engineering experience, expertise in database technologies, and strong leadership skills, preferably in the financial industry.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
January 7, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Databases #Automated Testing #NoSQL #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Computer Science #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Leadership #Automation #API (Application Programming Interface) #DevOps
Role description
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant discipline. • 10+ years’ experience in engineering roles, with a minimum of 5 in a senior or principal engineering position. • Technical proficiency in Database technologies, relational, nosql, distributed sql, deployed on IaaS or part of DBaaS. Strong understanding of consumer use case and how databases infrastructure capabilities work. • Expertise in infrastructure components, performance tuning, and capacity planning. • Understanding of, and hands on experience of, micro services, software development, infrastructure automation, api development and basic application system’s design. • Strong understanding experience on Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Capabilities (CI/CD/CT Pipelines, Automated Testing, Code Scanning etc.) and Infrastructure as Code. • Industry strength knowledges of testing practices and tooling. • Proven track record of leading large, enterprise level projects and delivering quality solutions. • Strong technical leadership skills, teambuilder and influencer • Exposure and success working within a global matrix organization model. • Familiarity with regulatory requirements and best practices in the financial industry. • Ability to liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the platform, product or service’s direction.