Lead Observability Engineer

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

As a Lead Observability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping, evolving, and operationalising the observability ecosystem across Royal London. You will provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and hands‑on engineering expertise to ensure our services remain reliable, performant, measurable, and transparent.

You will lead the engineering roadmap for our observability platforms while guiding the transition toward more open, scalable, vendor‑agnostic approaches and modern event‑streaming technologies.

This role sits within the Operational Tooling team, a key capability that provides enterprise‑wide insights, telemetry pipelines, monitoring platforms, and tooling governance for production services.

About the role

• Lead the end‑to‑end architecture for observability across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, on‑prem infrastructure, networks, databases, inte...