Engineering Lead

Lloyds Bank plc; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 124,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Head of Engineering for its General Insurance Platform in Leeds. This pivotal role involves leading tech transformation, enhancing customer journeys, and inspiring engineering teams to innovate. With a competitive salary range of £124,653 - £146,650, join a company committed to inclusivity and driving positive change in the financial sector.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Visionary leader with passion for team development.
• Experience in overseeing multiple engineering teams.
• Adaptable to various engineering and software design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive technology transformation in General Insurance.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and other engineering leads.
• Define outcome priorities and maintain system health.

Skills

Leadership

Digital Transformation

Collaboration

Education

Extensive technical engineering knowledge

Tools

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Head of Engineering - General Insurance (GI) Platform page is loaded

Head of Engineering - General Insurance (GI) Platform

Apply locations Leeds Wellington Place time type Full time posted on Posted Today time left to apply End Date: July 15, 2025 (6 days left to apply) job requisition id 137732

End Date

Monday 07 July 2025

Salary Range

£124,653 - £146,650

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Head of Engineering - General Insurance (GI) Platform

SALARY: £124,653 - £146,650

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in the Leeds office.

About this opportunity:

Are you looking for a technology focused leadership role which will enable you to drive tech collaboration; input and advise the strategic vision and direction for the General Insurance division whilst inspiring our engineering teams to be creative, innovative, and empowered to reach their full potential and deliver on our transformation vision?

We have an excellent opportunity for a Head of Engineering to Lead our General Insurance (GI) Platform.

The GI Platform’s purpose is to create an industry leading experience to help our customers with their insurance needs across house, motor, pet & health. We strive to achieve this goal by improving our customer journey with new features and tech, simplifying our customer journeys, and improving infrastructure.

Collaboration is critical to the success of this role! As the Head of Engineering you'll work collaboratively with the Product Owners, other platforms, technical teams, as well as other engineering leads across Lloyds Banking Group (LBG). You’ll work hand-in-hand leading the platform technology teams with the Technology Platform Lead and Business Platform Lead and Product Owners to:

• Drive the technology and engineering transformation of General Insurance
• 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 outcomeswhich are essential to keep the solution / product in good health.

• Create an organisation that istruly data drivenand 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.

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…

What you’ll need:

• To be a visionary leader and an advocate for digital transformation

• A passion for team development; allowing colleagues to develop in different/new technologies and mature in ways of working, resulting in a successful team.

• Extensive experience and technical engineering knowledge and implementation of a broad range of platforms, including cloud.

• Are technology agnostic and willing to adapt your approach in pursuit of the best solution; enables via an excellent knowledge and understanding of multiple engineering & software design solutions.

• Experienced in providing Software Engineering oversight, technical and people leadership across multiple teams

• Successful in building high performing mission driven cultures

• You will inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust

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.

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’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.

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.

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About Us

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.

Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

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