Chapter Lead

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Metro Bank PLC Full time

**Team** IT & Change

**Location** Holborn Office

**County** Central London

**Ref #** 17998

**Closing Date** 13-Jan-2023

Are you able to strategically lead a Databases Chapter? Can you nurture colleague to help them grow? Do you have the ability to work in an Agile Environment? If yes, then we have the role for you

As the Chapter Lead - Database, you will build up the right capabilities in people within the Database Chapter, equipping them with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to deliver functional excellence, and ensuring that they are focused on delivering value to the business.

Depending on the team, most of our roles offer flexible working.

**So what would you be doing?...**
- Assisting engineers within the Chapter with building the features that are linked to outcomes for a given value stream
- Utilise knowledge to assist and lead the team to ensure technical excellence is delivered
- Setting and defining standards and best practice along with implementing improvements to tooling
- Monitoring the platform across value streams and ensure platform capabilities are developed on in a consistent and coordinated approach
- Building up the right capabilities in people within the chapter, equipping them with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to deliver technical excellence
- Monitoring the level of technical debt within the platform and ensure this is well documented, encouraging solutions to be developed that minimizes the impact to technical debt accumulation
- Working with third party providers where necessary offering direction, support and documentation
- Creating business cases for when and why platforms need upgrading and present these to ELT when necessary in an articulate manner for an audience that may not be technical
- Responsible for effective performance management processes and mechanisms for those within the chapter and measuring performance and improvement
- Providing an inclusive environment where Chapter members have freedom and safety to innovate, experiment, and learn from failure
- Providing open and effective communication channels leading to greater knowledge transfer within the Chapter
- Establishing knowledge sharing community, where technical knowledge of the platform or other technical practices are shared, and will encourage individuals within the chapter to share their knowledge
- Writing and contributing to technical standards and technology roadmaps

**You need to be this kind of person**
- Passionate about providing unparalleled levels of service and convenience for customers
- Able to work and learn quickly in a fast paced, fun and dynamic environment
- Prepared to stick at something - we get nervous if someone has jumped from job to job as we want people who are prepared to learn and grow
- Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do

And... we are a bank so risk is a part of everything we do. We love people who take responsibility, do the right thing for customers, colleagues and Metro Bank and have the courage to call out any concerns.

**We always support colleagues to develop their skills. But to be successful in this job you really do need to already be able to do most of these wonderful things...**
- Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all our stakeholders
- Database Chapter Leads are technology & engineering experts recognised as such by their peers and others in the industry in their chosen fields and platforms
- Experience of DevOps practices with both relational and non-relational database automation full lifecycle experience
- Database Chapter Leader will be a master of MongoDB
- Database Chapter Leader will be a master of Oracle
- Expert knowledge in the technology and engineering best practices in Database technology
- Knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira and Confluence
- Experience of working in an Agile work environment
- Experience of TDD/BDD development methodology
- Knowledge and experience with Line management, coaching, mentoring and how to build sustainable and high performing capabilities over time

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