Lead Observability Engineer

Job Title: Lead Observability Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Edge OR Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 11th May 2026

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.

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