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Benefact Group – Engineering Lead (Gloucester)
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Benefact Group
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Gloucester
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Hybrid
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?
Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group - where all profits go to charity and good causes.
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
An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
£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.
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
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
Benefact Group
·
Gloucester
·
Hybrid
We are looking for an Engineering Lead to join Benefact Group in our Gloucester office. Competitive salary, excellent benefits and hybrid working.
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