End Date
Monday 08 April 2024
Salary Range
£85,255 - £100,300
We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.
Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead – Personalised Experiences & Communications Platform
SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Halifax
HOURS: [Full-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh or Halifax Office.
About this opportunity…
This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for an Engineering Lead. As the Engineering Lead you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.
Key Objectives for the Platform:
Simplify and modernise our technology estate to enable internal flexibility and increase responsiveness to evolving customer needs.
Improve customer experience and support the Bank’s sustainability ambitions by delivering compelling, reliable, safe paperless communications.
Enable two-way, seamless, multi-channel customer experiences that are differentiated, data-led and personalised - in line with the broader Group Conversational Banking and Channel strategies.
Deliver engaging, empathetic communications that are tailored to individual customer needs and provided via their preferred channel.
What we are looking for:
A transformational leader who works collaboratively with other engineering leads to create empowered teams that are motivated to take on business problems and realise value to customers through excellence in execution. The role will, and as a result centre on technology and engineering direction for the cross functional product-engineering teams to demonstrate thought leadership on contemporary technical delivery, across the entire lifecycle, from idea to realisation of value. Guide team on embedding best engineering practices and enable continuous delivery.
About us…
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…
Technical Skills & Experience:
Experience in leading technical teams, diverse hiring and providing mentoring/coaching to engineers.
Experience designing, implementing and educating security patterns & controls such as OAuth2/OIDC, MTLS, SAML, SAST & DAST
Technical expertise to design event driven systems and high throughput microservices in Java.
Experience in building distributed systems with resilience in public cloud.
Experience in guiding teams to follow DevSecOps practices and infrastructure as code.
Experience setting up self-organised teams with agile principles and create inclusive environments for all.
Experience with Public Cloud Solution, ideally Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services.
Knowledge of zero trust security for applications hosted in cloud.
Significant exposure to modern technologies, especially; Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Web frameworks, GoLang. .NET core & Python
Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
Join our journey.
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.