End Date
Thursday 01 June 2023
Salary Range
£100,352 - £125,440
Agile Working Options
Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
Location: Leeds, Edinburgh or Halifax
Salary & Benefits: £116,272 to £145,340 (depending on experience) base salary, plus annual discretionary bonus up to 40%, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
For many of our office based colleagues, we work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites
Who?
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers and a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We’re in the middle of a £3bn investment into our People, Platforms and Data as part of our strategy to build the Bank of the Future and grow sustainably.
Why Enterprise Risk Platform?
This is a time of growth for the platform. We are passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and skilled team of engineers. We are introducing new technologies as we move towards our target state with a cloud first (private and public) approach in our hosting strategy and to transform our systems from a monolith to a microservice based system whilst decommissioning our legacy services and systems.
Collaboration is critical to the success of this role! As the Engineering Lead you'll work collaboratively with the Lab Product Owner, other labs, technical teams, other platforms as well as other engineering leads with the platform. You’ll work hand-in-hand leading the Lab teams with the Credit Run Product Owner to:
jointly assume the ownership, development, and accountability of Lab strategic and quarterly OKRs, and are incentivised against a balanced set of business and technology outcomes.
Optimise, evolve, and deliver an efficient operating model.
Support shaping of the backlog and prioritising outcomes which are essential to keep the solution / product in good health.
Create an organisation that is truly data driven and providing the best value propositions to our customers.
Define the What and Why the team deliver, and how through a combination of engineering solutions and changes to our ways of working i.e. agile and instrumentation.
What you’ll get involved in:
The Engineering Lead handles the successful delivery and maintenance of the core technology agenda within the Lab providing strategic direction and oversight of Credit Customer journeys. They will be responsible for the technical roadmap, management of technical debt and other technical demands. They are accountable for the technical solutions team that will design, build, or integrate, deploy, and run the system, particularly software, that supports the Credit business and operations, with a focus on resilience, low latency, reusability, accessibility by third parties and scalability.
About the teams:
We work flexibly and operate a hybrid working pattern. The teams are spread across 3 UK (United Kingdom) hubs – London, Edinburgh and Halifax and a handful of locations in India. We have a team with varied strengths across subject areas such as Software Engineering, DevOps, and Quality Engineering. As the Engineering lead you have responsibility for hiring and growing our existing engineering talent enabling teams and individuals to maximise their potential.
Our core technologies are:
We maintain and develop a couple of database systems ; SAS, DB2, and Oracle and various tooling for middleware management. For data and analytics our public cloud target is Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Lab’s scope includes building a customer system of engagement out there.
What you can bring to the role:
The role will be suited to someone who combines leadership skills with strong technical experience and comes from an engineering background.
As a leader, you:
Enable a culture based on the fundamentals of psychological safety instilling confidence, authenticity and trust throughout your teams.
Create a culture of learning and continuous improvement through a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” mentality within teams to experiment and test new ways of engineering, to act as a change agent for engineering and team culture, and to cultivate a systems-thinking and user-experience led design approach.
Have a strong passion for and technical understanding of data content systems and can provide support, knowledge and mentoring to the teams. This includes helping teams to use the best engineering practices, tooling, and methods and to encourage them to contribute towards inner-source activities and attend MeetUps.
Encourage engineers to join Communities of Practice, Guilds and Working Groups to deliver peer-to-peer mentoring and joint engineering initiatives via coordinated sessions and InnerSource delivery methods.
As an Engineer, you:
Will have extensive software engineering background with one or more programming languages
Are technology agnostic and are willing to adapt approach in pursuit of the optimal solution
Understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt
Significant experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team as well as understanding the relationship between agile definitions and automated delivery
Understand the benefits of BDD & TDD and ensure engineers write upfront tests against team defined agile definitions and delivery stories
Automation of everything will be a priority
Have proven understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end- to- end delivery of software products along with knowledge of modern software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
What you'll get in return:
We have the scale to provide genuine opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career.We can offer working outside the traditional 9:5 a with flexible and hybrid working patterns and happy to have a conversation about what might work for you...
We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process.
We'll also give you a comprehensive package that includes:
A discretionary performance-led share bonus
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
Private health cover you can extend to family members
30 days holiday plus bank holidays
Various share schemes including free shares
So if this sounds of interest and you've the relevant skills and experience then we'd love to hear from you! Together we make it possible
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.