Associate Director, Banking, Quality Engineering (QE), Technology & Transformation

Associate Director, Banking, Quality Engineering (QE), Technology & TransformationBasic information Location

Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Business Line

Technology & Transformation

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

05-Aug-2026

Req #

24419 Job description Connect to your Industry

Deloitte provides premium quality engineering services to a wide range of global clients, solving the most complex testing challenges on their most significant and highest profile IT change programmes. Our team has grown rapidly over recent years, and continues to do so, combining a wealth of deep industry knowledge with both business advisory experience and technical expertise.

Our proposition differs from our competitors as we are not purely delivery-focused, we pride ourselves on providing a more consultative and strategic approach to quality engineering which results in our clients experiencing a premium service and gaining higher value outcomes.

Want to work with the latest technologies, as part of a team helping international organisations transform their core business capabilities? Whether you're working with on-premise systems, Cloud technology, or custom-developed solutions (to name just a few), your expertise will help clients deliver continuous improvement and innovation, from initial design right through to implementation and optimisation.[

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way , serve with integrity , take care of each other , foster inclusion , and collaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

We are seeking a talented Associate Director to lead testing solutions for leading Banking clients. You will shape test strategy across traditional and agile programmes. You will also build senior client relationships and strengthen leadership capability.

Responsibilities will include

Lead delivery programmes by defining modern Quality Engineering strategies, test architectures, and assurance frameworks. Work closely with multi-capability teams and senior business and IT stakeholders to deliver high-quality QE outcomes on time.

Collaborate with our Banking leadership teams, proposition owners and QE to develop and implement 'Go to market' propositions to attract new clients.

Shape client Quality Engineering strategies, roadmaps, and transformation programmes across Banking. Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and guide investment in the right QE tools and methods.

Help develop Deloitte's QE propositions for the Banking market through pre-sales, bids, and client presentations. Support practice growth and contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture.

Strengthen Deloitte's QE capability by coaching junior team members and helping define and implement QE accelerators and standards.

The opportunity to travel within the UK and worldwide when required.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To qualify for the role, candidates must have

Significant experience of working within the UK Banking industry (Retail, Commercial or Capital Markets) either directly or in a professional services firm

Exceptional communication, presentation, business writing and professional skills, including being able to bridge both technical and business stakeholders

Experience of working with offshore and/or nearshore teams

Experience of building and strengthening key client relationships

Experience of functional system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing and non-functional testing including performance and automation

Test management tool expertise (such as JIRA/ADO/X-Ray)

Experience of working on RfPs either as a requestor / judge or a responder

Experience of developing thought leadership materials or go to market propositions

Excellent interpersonal skills and self-driver

Strong leadership and management skills

Acute attention to detail

Comfortable working in a fast-paced and often changeable client environment

Strong commercial awareness of how professional services firms and change/transformation programmes operate

Additional desirable experience includes

ISTQB Advanced / Manager level or equivalent

Application of GenAI tooling within the SDLC

Ability to design and implement test automation frameworks

ISTQB Certified Agile Tester qualification (or equivalent)

Experience in administering a test management tool (e.g. ALM, Xray for Jira, Zephyr)

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

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