About the Role
This position involves leading engineering efforts for critical platforms supporting revenue, risk, and settlements across the Customers business. You will guide teams building high-impact systems, contribute to the company's vision of a sustainable energy future, and shape best practices in cloud infrastructure, agile delivery, and DevOps. The role offers flexibility with periodic office attendance in Exeter or London, alongside mentoring responsibilities and technical leadership across multiple product streams.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing daily engineering operations and technical execution for finance systems and analytics solutions
- Leading the architecture, implementation, and performance enhancement of cloud-native, data-heavy platforms
- Providing technical mentorship to engineering teams and promoting standards in quality, teamwork, and iterative progress
- Establishing reliable practices in continuous integration, delivery pipelines, automated testing, and deployment protocols
- Partnering with product managers, solution architects, and business stakeholders to deliver customer-centric technology products
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation
- Eligibility for an annual performance-based bonus
- Industry-leading pension plan
- Flexible benefits package including options for electric vehicle leasing, gym discounts, life insurance, technology allowances, and experiential rewards
Compensation
Competitive salary with potential for annual bonus
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Exeter, London
Team
Finance Systems and Analytics engineering teams
The Opportunity
As a Lead Engineer within Finance Systems and Analytics, you’ll play a key role in leading the engineering capability behind critical platforms that underpin revenue, risk, and settlements across our Customers business. You’ll guide teams delivering high-impact systems, while supporting our journey towards An Electric Britain. Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, this is a flexible role with occasional travel to our #Exeter or #London offices. You’ll benefit from a hybrid approach, giving you the freedom to work in a way that suits you while staying connected to your team. You’ll lead technical delivery across multiple products, shaping best practice in cloud, DevOps, and agile delivery. From mentoring engineers to driving innovation and quality, you’ll influence both team performance and wider engineering communities, building solutions that deliver real value.
Who You Are
As a Lead Engineer (FS&A), you’re a confident technical leader who combines strong engineering expertise with the ability to guide teams and influence stakeholders. You bring a delivery mindset, enjoy solving complex problems, and take ownership of outcomes. To be shortlisted, you need to offer… - Proven experience leading small to medium-sized engineering teams in a fast-paced agile environment - Strong expertise in cloud architectures, particularly AWS, supported by relevant certifications - Hands-on experience with server-side programming using languages such as Python, Java, Kotlin, or NodeJS - Experience designing and building REST APIs and integrating third-party services - Commercial experience with React or React Native, alongside modern state management libraries - Strong experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub, or Terraform - Knowledge of event-driven, serverless, and loosely coupled architectures - Experience applying test-driven or behaviour-driven development practices - Proven experience working within the energy industry - Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
Pay, Benefits and Culture
Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more. At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us. Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.
Other
- Occasional travel to Exeter or London offices
- Hybrid working model
- Closing date for applications is Sunday 12th July 2026
- EDF is a Disability Confident employer and will support applicants requiring adjustments
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