Engineering lead

Zohorecruit; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group seeks an experienced Engineering Lead to drive end-to-end engineering delivery across strategic initiatives in London. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, provide technical direction, and ensure delivery quality while managing stakeholder relationships across business, architecture, and operations.

The role requires hands-on knowledge of cloud-native platforms, microservices, DevOps, security, and large-scale transformation programs within banking.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering/CS/Tech.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading large engineering teams with stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering strategy, standards, and governance.
• Own end-to-end technology delivery across programs and releases.
• Mentor Technical Leads, Architects, and Senior Engineers.
• Drive CI/CD, DevSecOps, and test automation.
• Collaborate with architects on roadmaps and security compliance.
• Lead distributed teams across multiple locations.

Skills

Microservices

APIs

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile Delivery

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Technology

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Splunk

Dynatrace

SonarQube

GitHub

Bitbucket

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

OpenShift

Jenkins

Job description

London, United Kingdom | Posted on 09/01/2026

Secondary Skills

Microservices & APIs + DevOps / CI-CD + AgileDelivery

Tertiary Skills

Stakeholder Management + Architecture Governance + TeamLeadership

Role Title

Engineering Lead

Experience

12 to 18+ Years

Location

UK ,London

Domain

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Lead todrive end-to-end engineering delivery across strategic Lloyds Banking Groupinitiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leadingmulti-disciplinary engineering teams, providing technical direction, drivingengineering excellence, ensuring delivery quality, and managing stakeholderrelationships across business, architecture, operations, and deliveryfunctions.

The role requires strong hands-on knowledge of modernengineering practices, cloud-native platforms, microservices architecture,DevOps, security, and large-scale transformation programs within the bankingdomain. Engineering Leads are expected to foster a culture of innovation,automation, quality, continuous improvement, and operational excellence whileensuring successful delivery of business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Defineengineering strategy, standards, and best practices.
  
• Driveengineering excellence, productivity improvements, and technicalinnovation.
  
• Establishdevelopment standards, code quality metrics, and governance controls.
  
• MentorTechnical Leads, Architects, and Senior Engineers.
  

Solution Delivery

• Ownend-to-end technology delivery across programs and releases.
  
• Ensurecommitments are delivered within agreed scope, timeline, quality, andbudget.
  
• Managedependencies across engineering, testing, DevOps, architecture, andbusiness teams.
  
• Supportrelease planning, capacity planning, and sprint governance.
  
• Collaboratewith Enterprise and Solution Architects on technology roadmaps.
  
• Reviewsolution designs to ensure scalability, resilience, maintainability, andsecurity.
  
• DriveAPI-first, cloud-native, microservices-based engineering approaches.
  
• Ensureadherence to LBG engineering and security standards.
  
• Championtest automation, code quality, security scanning, and performanceengineering.
  
• DriveCI/CD adoption and DevSecOps practices.
  
• Monitorengineering metrics, technical debt, and platform stability.
  
• Improvesystem reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
  

Stakeholder Management

• Actas the primary technology contact for business and delivery stakeholders.
  
• Presentengineering updates, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
  
• Workclosely with Product Owners, Customer Journey Managers, Delivery Managers,and Architects.
  
• Supportgovernance forums and executive status reporting.
  
• Leaddistributed teams across multiple locations.
  
• Supporthiring, onboarding, mentoring, and capability building.
  
• Conductperformance reviews and career development conversations.
  
• Drivea high-performance engineering culture.
  
• Ensurecompliance with LBG governance, audit, security, and risk requirements.
  
• Manageoperational risks and technology controls.
  
• Supportproduction readiness reviews and regulatory initiatives.
  

Required Technical Skills

Engineering & Architecture

• RESTAPIs
  
• DomainDriven Design (DDD)
  
• Docker
  
• OpenShift
  

DevOps & Automation

• Jenkins
  
• GitHub/ Bitbucket
  
• Terraform
  
• Ansible
  
• TDD/ BDD
  
• SecureCoding
  
• Observability& Monitoring
  

Tools

• JIRA
  
• Confluence
  
• Splunk
  
• Dynatrace
  
• SonarQube
  

Banking Domain Knowledge

Preferred experience in:

• RetailBanking
  
• CommercialBanking
  
• DigitalBanking
  
• CustomerJourneys
  
• Payments
  
• LendingPlatforms
  
• OpenBanking
  
• Risk& Compliance
  
• SolutionDesign Reviews
  
• ReleaseReadiness Assessments
  
• EngineeringGovernance Packs
  
• PlatformModernization Plans
  
• Capacity& Delivery Plans
  
• TechnicalDebt Reduction Plans
  
• OperationalStability Metrics
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor'sor Master's Degree in Engineering / Computer Science / Technology.
  
• 12+years of software engineering experience.
  
• 5+years leading large engineering teams.
  
• Experiencedelivering large-scale banking transformation programs.
  
• Strongstakeholder management and leadership skills.
  
• Experienceworking in Agile / SAFe environments.