How Qurated helped a top bank upgrade their engineering capability.
This Tier 1 Bank had ambitious hiring goals within its engineering teams. Despite significant efforts they were achieving an average of 1 hire from every 10 interviews conducted through the existing recruitment process, which had delivered just 7 hires by the end of H1.
Reduce the 46% reliance on 3rd party suppliers (Capgemini, Infosys, IBM, Accenture).
Raise productivity through the addition of market-leading talent and drive improvement in key efficiency and productivity engineering metrics.
Establish a UK engineering practice of market-leading talent and future-fit skills.
Implement a consistent technical test using Qurated's Technical Delivery Lead.
Build a repeatable and scalable recruitment process to enable BUK to achieve its engineering hiring goals.
Recruited feature teams and onboarded 40 engineers in less than six months, with each engineer passing through deep technical and cultural assessments delivered by Qurated.
Integrated the feature teams into the bank using Qurated’s pulse survey and engagement review, generating key insights to continuously improve onboarding, integration, and overall impact.
Leveraged Qurated’s Capability Index to establish a baseline view of each feature team’s combined attributes, enabling alignment with the most relevant work.
Used the same data to create a broader view of the bank’s new engineering capability, providing insights on development areas and skill gaps for future planning.
Developed engineering excellence metrics tied directly to productivity, ensuring transparency for stakeholders from Engineering Leads to the CIO on the tangible impact of this pilot project.
“Working with Qurated has been one of the best experiences I’ve had in my time at Barclays and generally in my career hiring software professionals. The Qurated team have worked very hard to understand what we were looking for and questioned where needed becoming genuine partners and improving our hiring process massively. I would really recommend them to anyone who needs to step up their hiring.”
The extra capacity along with the uplift in overall engineering capability will enable the bank to tackle a broad range of technical projects, from modernising its core to developing new and enhanced digital solutions.
