Engineering Lead

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking an Engineering Lead to support lab leadership and guide engineering teams in developing a new Model Risk Management tool. This pivotal role involves shaping engineering strategies, providing technical guidance, and driving the adoption of cloud-native solutions. Candidates should have significant experience in software/data engineering and a strong background in Google Cloud Platform tools. Opportunity to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders is key.

Benefits

Dedicated career growth opportunities

Diversity-focused workplace

Investment in modern engineering practices

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience with a strong technical background.
• Experience in designing and delivering cloud-native systems.
• Proficient in Python and SQL, guiding engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to feature teams.
• Guide architectural decisions and cloud patterns.
• Mentor engineers and champion high-quality practices.

Skills

Leadership in software/data engineering

Cloud-native systems design

Google Cloud Platform experience

Proficiency in Python

Proficiency in SQL

DevOps and CI/CD knowledge

Experience in Docker/Kubernetes

Agile team leadership

Tools

Google BigQuery

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

About the Role

The purpose of the Engineering Lead is to support the Lab leadership and the teams within their area to deliver against the strategy and their delivery commitments. Colleagues in these roles must come from an Engineering background, and this position represents the conscious decision of an Engineer to progress down the management track of the Y‑shaped model. This allows these colleagues to start building up the broader set of skills required to operate in a engineering management position, not all of which will be developed under the Software Engineer role. However, they will remain deeply technical, providing technical guidance to teams and making sure that they make the right technology choices, though the broader set of responsibilities will often (though not always) take them away from actual coding on a very regular basis.

We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Prudential & Analytics Platform to drive delivery of our new Model Risk Management tool and lead the transformation of our commercial model monitoring capabilities. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our end‑to‑end engineering approach – modernising and scaling the platforms that underpin critical modelling, oversight, and regulatory processes across the Group. This is a high‑impact leadership role where you will guide engineering teams, set technical direction, and build cloud‑native, automated, and resilient solutions using modern data, cloud, and DevOps technologies.

You'll oversee the engineering strategy and build‑out of a modern Model Risk Management platform – enabling model owners, reviewers, and governance teams to manage model lifecycle, documentation, controls, and oversight.2. Commercial Model Monitoring Transformation You’ll lead the redesign and automation of the commercial model monitoring solution, bringing modern cloud patterns, observability, and GCP‑native tooling into the heart of our analytics ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands‑on technical leadership to feature teams
• Guide architectural decisions, engineering standards, and cloud patterns
• Lead delivery planning, prioritisation, and alignment across teams and stakeholders
• Mentor engineers, championing high‑quality engineering practices
• Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Risk, and Architecture teams
• Drive automation, CI/CD, and best‑practice DevOps across delivery
• Ensure solutions are robust, compliant, and meet operational and regulatory expectations

Qualifications

• Significant engineering leadership experience (typically 7+ years in software/data engineering, with leadership responsibilities)
• Strong technical background with experience designing and delivering cloud‑native systems
• Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform, ideally including:
  • BigQuery
  • Cloud Composer
  • Cloud Storage
  • Logs Explorer
  • Data Catalog
• Strong experience building and leading development of model monitoring, analytical platforms, or data‑intensive workflows
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with the ability to guide engineering standards
• Experience leading teams using dbt (Data Build Tool) for modelling and transformation
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automation, ideally using Harness
• Experience delivering solutions via Docker, Kubernetes, and modern orchestration patterns
• Background in building scalable, secure, and observable cloud capabilities
• Strong delivery leadership across agile, multi‑disciplinary teams
• Ability to influence across technical and non‑technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Experience working in regulated environments, model risk tooling, or governance workflows
• Knowledge of model lifecycle management, monitoring, validation, or model oversight
• Experience migrating complex legacy analytics systems into cloud‑native architectures
• Understanding of infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, Deployment Manager)
• Experience building dashboards, monitoring frameworks, or automated alerting for analytical workloads
• Knowledge of distributed data systems or streaming architectures
• Experience leading distributed teams

Why Join Us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. We’re investing heavily in cloud, data and modern engineering practices to transform how we deliver insights and capabilities across the Group. We’re growing with purpose – building platforms, systems, and services that are dependable, innovative, and ready for the future. Join us on this journey and you will too.

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.

Commitment to Diversity and Safety

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.