Job Introduction
Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value.
We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity.
Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk.
We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their expertise, and contribute to meaningful change. We look for people who care about quality, security, long-term impact, and who want to shape the future of a relationship-led bank.
Check our Handelsbanken website for further information
The opportunity
We are looking for a Technical Leader to lead on the delivery of Onboarding systems. The role will be responsible for building up and then leading a team who will identify and then design and deliver the integration of modern software capability in the UK to integrate Handelsbanken’s systems with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software solutions.
Key responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Own the quality of application design, selecting the right technologies to create highly performant, stable, large scale, micro services based, cloud based applications
- Act as a counterpart to the digital product owner, and jointly own backlog of work
- Take technical ownership of UK integrations and oversee all technical work.
- Ensure adherence to IT development controls.
- Own and manage platform risks and governance
- Provide input into technical buy vs build decisions and ensure they align with our modernisation strategy
- Ensure that we safely and securely incorporate third party solutions and / or Group solutions into our Digital offerings
- Support the move to performant, micro-service based Cloud applications as it becomes possible
- Evaluate technical efficiency, and be able to talk to long term costs, time to market, technical debt
- Ensure all products and services are supported by excellent third line support
- Stay up to date with latest digital technology trends and bring them to bear in our system designs
- Enable teams to be accountable for their own testing, making sure testing happens fast, frequently and effectively
- Ensure security is built into the development process
- Participate in code reviews with the team, pair programming exercises where appropriate
- When required, support a move to DevOps culture
Delivery aspects
- Own technical aspects of delivery for our payments and core banking touchpoints
- Enhance the existing agile ways of working . Optimise the delivery throughput for web front end and back end components
- Through continuous improvement, drive technical operational excellence across the organisation
- Evaluate technical efficiency, and be able to talk to long term costs, time to market, technical debt
- Be able to marry Agile and Waterfall where necessary
- Ability to manage a vendor product configuration and SI’s as necessary.
People leadership of the UK integration teams as they grow
- Line management for developers, product configuration staff to achieve the outcomes for IT modernisation.
- Build, continuously develop and lead a modern software capability across multiple teams
- Line manage, mentor and coach engineers
- Ensure best practice is shared across teams and empower the teams to drive change themselves
- Provide structured performance reviews to support ongoing professional development within teams
- Convert department-level objectives into key results for your team
What we’re looking for
Research (by Harvard University) shows that women are particularly likely to second guess themselves and not apply - so if you are worried you don't meet all the criteria, get in touch anyhow and let us do the worrying…
- 5+ years of experience of product engineering and delivery, of which at least 2 years should be in a people management role
- 5+ years of hands-on experience working in Java and cloud native app product development, database, build pipeline and networking technologies
- Demonstrable experience of Agile and of leading and scaling distributed autonomous engineering teams across remote locations
- Experience working with or integrating with Salesforce is highly desirable
- Ability to work well in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and to pick up new skill sets quickly
- Track record of delivering well engineered solutions using current technologies
- Experience running engineering teams over a sustained period and can demonstrate excellent leadership across technology domains like development, quality, support, architecture and integration
- Experienced in product development life cycles and working in a lean-agile way.
- Can think and act strategically, as well as recognising when to act tactically and operationally
- You are a people leader who can inspire and grow talent
- You understand how to influence others and how to build collaborative, productive relationships with your peers
- Able to form a clear compelling vision for the future, incorporating diverse sources of input.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to analyse, articulate and present complex issues clearly and concisely
- Professional standard of presentation skills
- Ability to build strong professional relationships at all levels and represent Handelsbanken effectively
- Interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with impact with people at all levels
- Integrity and discretion
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Attention to detail and an organised approach to work
Why join Handelsbanken
We want everyone at Handelsbanken to feel supported, motivated, and able to do great work. That’s why, alongside brilliant colleagues, meaningful work and training and development opportunities, we provide a variety of benefits designed with your wellbeing in mind.
In addition, there is a flexible benefits package with the key highlights detailed below.
Application next steps
Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken Talent Acquisition Partners will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if your experience aligns with our requirements, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.
This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.
The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.