Engineering Lead

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the United Kingdom seeks an Engineering Lead to shape technology strategy and lead high-performing teams. This role focuses on delivering data-driven products, overseeing FinTech integrations, and ensuring operational excellence in cloud environments. Candidates should have expertise in mobile application development and a strong background in AI and machine learning. This position offers opportunities for personal and professional growth within a diverse working environment.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading engineering teams and delivering technology strategies.
• Expertise in data products and platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices and cloud-native developments.

Responsibilities

• Set technology direction and establish engineering standards.
• Lead design and delivery of data-driven products.
• Oversee integration of FinTech solutions and manage cloud hosting.

Skills

Leadership

Data-driven products

Cloud computing

AI & Machine Learning

Mobile application development

CI/CD automation

Microservices architecture

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Overview

The Segments & Propositions Platform is central to delivering personalised experiences for our customers across multiple segments. We design and build propositions that meet diverse customer needs, leveraging data, AI, and modern engineering practices to deliver at pace. As an Engineering Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping technology strategy, leading high-performing teams, and ensuring delivery excellence across segmentation and proposition journeys. If you're ready to lead at scale and influence the future of banking technology, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Set Technology Direction & Standards — Define and communicate the technology vision for Segments & Propositions, partnering with Lead Architects and Product Owners. Establish engineering standards, quality assurance frameworks, and guidelines across the platform.
• Build Data Products & Drive Innovation — Lead the design and delivery of data-driven products and services, enabling advanced analytics and AI capabilities. Champion pathfinder deliveries to explore emerging technologies and accelerate innovation.
• Lead FinTech Integration & Cloud Hosting — Oversee integration of FinTech solutions, hosting and maintaining models in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Ensure operational resilience, security by design, and compliance with regulatory standards.
• Mobile Application Delivery — Provide strategic oversight and technical leadership for building mobile applications on iOS and Android, ensuring seamless integration with platform services and customer journeys through microservices.
• AI & Machine Learning Enablement — Drive adoption of ML for model training, deployment, and monitoring, enabling scalable and secure AI solutions across propositions.
• Delivery Planning & Governance — Create and manage delivery plans, establish governance frameworks, and manage dependencies across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Business Alignment — Work closely with business stakeholders to guide, manage, and align technology delivery with their OKRs, ensuring outcomes support strategic priorities.
• Develop High-Performing Teams — Attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent. Coach and mentor engineers to build capability in data engineering, cloud-native development, and modern delivery practices.
• Manage Distributed Teams — Lead geographically dispersed teams across multiple locations, fostering collaboration and inclusion. Implement effective communication and delivery models for distributed agile teams.
• Demonstrated expertise in crafting technology visions and architecture, emphasizing data products and platforms.
• Deep understanding of modern engineering practices: microservices, API-driven design, CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Proficiency in FinTech integration, deploying and managing models on GCP, and crafting scalable, secure cloud-native architectures.
• Experience in developing mobile applications for iOS and Android and connecting them with enterprise platforms via microservices.
• Knowledge of deploying ML models and managing their lifecycle.
• Demonstrated expertise in assembling, mentoring & energising top-tier engineering teams to achieve high performance, encompassing geographically dispersed groups.
• Ensure operational excellence, own delivery of technology change and run activities, embedding a culture of continuous improvement, cost efficiency, and risk management.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery, ensuring operational reliability and product velocity.

Benefits

• 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

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.