# Chris Wraith

> Engineering Leader

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/chriswraith

Highly capable technology and people leader with well-developed organisational, technical and management skills. Passionate technology advocate and regular conference speaker who is highly motivated, articulate and level-headed. 

- Skilled at developing strategies, working with multiple teams to deliver business objectives and improve customer value.
- Confident in leading development, research and operational activities with commercial awareness.
- Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration and management.

## Work Experience
### Consultant software engineer @ HSBC
Jan 2025 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom

### Senior Director, Engineering @ Elastic Path
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
•	Engineering leader for a global SaaS commerce company processing millions of dollars in transactions daily. Setting technical direction and driving innovation. Working closely with the product organisation to build and prioritise our roadmap.
•	Managing multiple engineering teams executing customer-focussed initiatives: building new product features to disrupt the market and acquire customers whilst maintaining a safe, secure platform.
•	Establishing and improving ways of working to ensure efficiency and facilitate fully remote operation of teams across multiple time-zones.
•	Supporting sales, marketing and customer success teams.

### Director, Engineering @ Elastic Path
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

### Senior Development Manager @ Elastic Path
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

### Lead Engineer @ Elastic Path
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

### Director | Head Of Engineering @ NatWest Markets
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | London, United Kingdom
Senior technology manager for an international payments platform bridging retail and investment banking products aimed at improving the journey for customers sending money abroad. Driving forwards the digital transformation agenda as the first team in the organisation to bring in cloud technologies, facilitating faster development cycle times and customer delivery. Building relationships with key stakeholders across multiple bank franchises to help them understand organisational objectives and get them onboard. Working with the innovation team to provide technology support for their goal of transforming correspondent banking. Developing strategy and plans for the build out and management of the technology working closely with the product management team. Recruiting, building-out and managing a team of 30+ engineers spanning multiple projects and geographical locations to bring the product progressively from inception to production. Designing solutions to ensure compliance with ICB and PSD2 regulations. Devising and implementing operating models to manage and control the software lifecycle from development to live environments - building a platform to support daily releases. Improving working practices and tooling to increase engineering productivity.

### Vice-President | Foreign Exchange Technology @ Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | London / remote
Leading the globally distributed technology team of 10 engineers who were responsible for building and maintaining the bank’s single-dealer platform supporting a global currencies trading system handling millions of dollars of FX trading volume every day. Built out new applications to better meet our customer needs, enable an expensive legacy platform to be retired and reduce ongoing costs significantly whilst also improving the user experience.

### Vice-President | Client Intelligence Technology @ Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | London / remote
Technical lead re-engineering a complex e-trading management information system from the ground up. Improved transparency of trading activity to drive improvement in desk trading strategies. Re-engineered application development and functionality to support business needs - including the introduction of continuous delivery pipelines.

### Assistant Vice-President | Sales Technology @ Barclays Capital
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | London, United Kingdom
Leader of a Sales Technology team focussed on making functionality and data available to other teams in the department. Built a number of tactical solutions which reduced costs and created efficiencies before a longer-term strategic solution could be implemented.

### Senior Developer | Finance Technology @ Lehman Brothers
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | London, United Kingdom
Software engineer on a global application reporting brokerage and exchange execution fees across all investment banking products - driving improvements in trading strategy to reduce overall costs.

### Developer @ Leighton
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | Sunderland, United Kingdom
Full-stack software and infrastructure engineer for an SME consultancy firm. Built and managed external systems for clients as well as internal systems to support the consultancy business.


## Education
### BSc (hons) in Computer Science
Newcastle University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chriswraith

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Last updated: 2026-04-05