Head of Engineering - Collaboration (M365)

Lloyds Banking Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 144,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of financial services transformation. As the Head of Collaboration Engineering, you'll lead a dynamic team to enhance collaboration solutions across the organization. This role emphasizes innovation, technical excellence, and the opportunity to drive significant improvements in how colleagues work and communicate. With a hybrid working model, you'll enjoy flexibility while contributing to an exciting journey of growth and development. If you're passionate about collaboration technologies and leadership, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution (up to 15%)

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing Collaboration Technology platforms.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills to inspire the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers in designing and implementing collaboration solutions.
• Drive innovation and improve colleague experience through new technologies.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Collaboration Technology Platforms

Agile Methodologies

M365 (Teams, SharePoint)

Performance Monitoring

Tools

JIRA

SCRUM

Kanban

Job description

JOB TITLE: Head of Collaboration (M365) Engineering

SALARY: £144,424 - £169,910

LOCATION: Leeds, Edinburgh, or London

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites, attending on the Platform anchor day with flexibility around the other office day(s)

About this opportunity

The Modern Workplace platform provides IT services to 90,000 colleagues across Lloyds Banking Group. You'll be at the heart of one of the UK's biggest financial service technical transformations maximising the use of shared tools and technology across our entire organisation.

We're seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Collaboration Engineering to lead a team of engineers in designing, implementing, and maintaining collaboration solutions across Lloyds Banking Group. This role is crucial in driving technical excellence and innovation. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for driving innovation in collaboration technologies including M365 Productivity Tooling, Data, Messaging Platforms & Real Time Communications.

About us

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll be doing

• Product Management: Work with the Lab Product Owner to provide effective leadership and management of the team. Specifically, this requires setting the vision, mobilisation of the teams required to deliver it and ensuring effective delivery execution.

• Innovation: Drive innovation by exploring new technologies and methodologies to improve colleague experience, efficiency and effectiveness. Foster a culture of innovation to ensure we deliver high quality Services, maximise value of our investments and use technology to solve problems in new ways.

• Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of collaboration engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement

• Performance Monitoring: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the effectiveness of collaboration solutions and identify areas for improvement

• Application Management: Manage technology budgets, resources and allocating them efficiently across products and services. Take ownership and accountability for delivery, operations risk management and total cost of services

• Your Development: Have the opportunity to participate in a number of career development activities, become aligned to some great Mentors within the business and access a huge array of learning and development to build your skills and career.

What you'll need

• Strong leadership, management, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower the Collaboration Lab (Product & Engineering Team).

• Proven experience, both hands on & managing Collaboration Technology platforms across Enterprise environments including M365 (Teams, SharePoint, Copilot, etc.), Data platforms, Email platforms, Compliance & Surveillance Technologies and Real Time Communications.

• Practical experience within an Agile change delivery construct, ideally having used JIRA/JIRA Align previously being comfortable leading the team within a SCRUM / Kanban model; always seeking to improve our skills and our product.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident.So if you'd 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!