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Lead Cloud Engineer

Leeds, United Kingdom

Job Description

Lead Cloud Engineer (Specialist)

Location: Leeds

Permanent

Shape the Future of Monetary Policy and Financial Stability

Join the Systems & Solutions (SaS) Domain in the Monetary Policy & Financial Stability (MP&FS) DGCIO Division and be part of the Statistical Data Products Team.

We enable critical processes, delivering data-driven solutions that influence the nation’s financial landscape. If you're excited by the power of cloud technology and want your work to make a real-world impact, this is your opportunity.

Opportunities in Leeds

We’re excited to be growing our presence in Leeds, a city we’ve been connected to for nearly 200 years! Our modern, accessible office in the City Centre offers a supportive, flexible working environment. The majority of roles, including this one, are now available in Leeds, giving you the chance to build a meaningful career outside of London while contributing to our mission from a dynamic and growing location. You’ll work collaboratively with London-based colleagues in a hybrid model, with regular opportunities to travel into the London office to meet and connect together in person.

Want to learn more? Discover what makes our Leeds office such a dynamic place to work by visiting our Leeds page for more details.

Role Requirements

This role is an opportunity to use modern cloud engineering practices to transform critical data systems and deliver reliable, meaningful insights for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability. As our Systems & Solutions Domain continues to evolve, you will help build secure, scalable services that support important business outcomes.

This is a hands-on cloud engineering role embedded within a product engineering team, rather than a role in the central cloud platform function. Strong Azure engineering skills are essential, but the focus is on applying those skills to design, build, support and improve business-facing products and data services. You will work closely with central platform, security and architecture teams, using shared services, standards and patterns effectively while remaining focused on product delivery.

You will play a key role in shaping the future of our data platforms through modern, secure and scalable cloud solutions.

Minimum Criteria

To be successful in this role, you should be able to demonstrate the following technical skills and experience:

• Experience designing, building, supporting or maintaining solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
• Experience using Terraform as an infrastructure-as-code tool to provision and manage cloud resources.
• Good understanding of Azure Databricks and ETL/ELT tooling for data transformation, including monitoring, maintaining and improving data pipelines.
• Experience working with Kubernetes, including AKS, containerised application deployments and troubleshooting application-level cluster issues.
• Strong understanding of Git-based branching, merge strategies, version control and code maintenance practices.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, for example using GitHub Actions.
• Good understanding of cybersecurity principles when deploying applications and provisioning infrastructure.

Essential Criteria

In addition to technical capability, we are looking for someone who brings curiosity, collaboration and a commitment to continuous improvement. You should be able to demonstrate the following behaviours and delivery capabilities:

• Demonstrate integrity, self-motivation, curiosity and a commitment to personal and professional development.
• Collaborate effectively across disciplines, communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Take ownership of delivery outcomes, contributing to code reviews, peer reviews, testing and continuous improvement activities.
• Write clean, efficient and maintainable code, with strong awareness of performance, security, resilience, scalability and operational supportability.
• Champion best practice, share knowledge, support team capability growth and apply emerging tools and techniques where they deliver practical value.
• Hold Azure Fundamentals certification, such as AZ-900, or demonstrate equivalent foundational Azure knowledge.

Desirable Criteria

The following experience would be advantageous and would help you contribute effectively in the role:

• Experience working in Agile environments and cross-functional teams, using tools such as JIRA and Confluence to support planning, delivery and knowledge sharing.
• A strong delivery assurance mindset, with the ability to build trust through clear governance, evidence-based decision-making and proactive stakeholder engagement.
• Additional relevant Azure certification, such as Azure Solutions Architect or equivalent experience.
• Understanding of Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, alerting and observability.
• Familiarity with GitOps-based CI/CD approaches using Flux CD and/or Argo CD for AKS deployments.

Join Our Systems & Solutions Domain – Where Systems Drive Impact

At the core of our digital transformation, the Systems & Solutions Domain designs, builds and supports the data products that power smarter decisions. We turn complex business needs into elegant, high-performing solutions and help unlock the full potential of data.

Our Approach to Inclusion

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.

At the Bank of England, we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we're working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We believe that it’s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we’ll continue to make the best decisions for the public.

We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns. We've also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they're needed.

For most roles where work can be carried out at home, we aim for colleagues to spend half of their time in the office, with a minimum of 40% per month. Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them, their team and stakeholders.

Finally, we're proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the ‘Candidate Personal Information’ under the ‘Disability Confident Scheme’ section of the application.

Salary and Benefits Information

We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.

The salary range of offer is £72,320 - £81,360. In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process (and typically can take between 6 to 12 weeks post offer) and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with the Bank policy. Further information regarding the vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant, and information about how the Bank processes personal data for these purposes, is set out in the Bank's Privacy Notice.

The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited. The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful. Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.

The Application Process

Important: Please ensure that you complete the ‘work history’ section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It’s therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.

The assessment process will comprise of two interview stages.

This role closes on 29th July.

Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed.

About Us

We are the UK's central bank - and we are a bank like no other; known by our peers for our world-leading thinking on policy and strategy.

Our mission is to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability. We seek to keep prices stable and people's money safe. We know our work matters to people, to families, up and down the UK. We are driven by curiosity and the desire to do important, challenging work.

It takes a great team to run the Bank of England. We rely on each other to play our part. We benefit from a collaborative culture and long-established flexible ways of working, supporting our colleagues balance their work and personal lives. We strive to be a place where people feel they belong and have equal access to opportunities, because different perspectives helps us make the best decisions for the public.

There's much to gain from working with us - from career defining work at the heart of the UK economy, being part of a fantastic team, and a rewarding compensation package.

Join us and find a bank like no other. Together, we can make a difference.

The Bank of England will use and protect the information you provide when you apply for a role with us, in line with our obligations under data protection law. This is so we can assess your suitability for the role and administer your application. If you’re successful we’ll use it to offer you a position and onboard you to join the Bank.

If you would like more details about how your information will be used and your information rights, please visit our recruitment privacy notice

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Job Info

• Job Identification2373
• Job CategoryTechnology
• Posting Date07/10/2026, 11:36 AM
• Apply Before07/29/2026, 06:59 PM
• Job ScheduleFull time
• LocationsYorkshire House, Leeds, LS1 5SH, GB
• Base Salary£72,320 - £81,360
• DirectorateTechnology

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