Engineering Lead

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

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive technology vision and team performance. The role involves leading teams to deliver innovative solutions, ensuring risk management, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. This position offers a competitive salary and flexible working options, contributing to a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience defining technology vision and architecture.
• Strong understanding of team productivity and morale.
• Experience in creating high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, and delivering data management systems.
• Lead a large team to fulfill business plans and implement strategies.
• Ensure effective risk and resilience management.

Skills

Leadership

Technology Vision

Team Productivity

Risk Management

Talent Development

Job description

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End Date

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Salary Range

£144,424 - £169,910

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Salary: £124,653 - £169,910 (depending on location)

Location: Edinburgh or London

Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London or Edinburgh office.

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.

About This Opportunity

The Everyday Banking (EDB) Platformincludes four core labs, the Platform is responsiblefor theend-to-end journeys for Banking and Savings products, providing market leading customer experience via the servicing of Debit and Credit cards, across multiple channels. Our agile teams span across our UK hubs in London, Manchester and Edinburgh and internationally in Hyderabad, India.

If you’re ready to step into a leadership role that shapes both people and technology, we’d love to hear from you!

What You’ll Do

The Engineering Lead role is a key leadership position responsible for setting the overall direction for our teams and putting in place the environment that allows our technologists to succeed. They are responsible for ensuring that technology change and run activities are delivered effectively and that a culture of constant efficiency improvement is inculcated into the teams to enable on-going improvement.

In addition, they are responsible for keeping their area safe through effective risk and resilience management and that there is a tight handle on costs. Software Engineering Leads often work alongside their Product Owner counterparts to ensure that technology considerations are factored into decision making appropriately.

• Takes overall responsibility for designing, developing and delivering custom data management systems for the organisation.
• Grow capabilities within a significant functional area of the business, while personally investing in the growth of own and others' capabilities elsewhere in the organisation through mentoring and other informal methods.
• Developing and delivering change management plans and achieving outcomes that support the organisation's overall strategy.
• Implement IT Security policies for a broad area within the organisation.
• Fulfilling business plans for a significant functional business area by effectively leading a large team.
• Develop long term objectives and takes responsibility for implementing and coordinating a performance management culture for a significant functional area of the organisation.
• Takes responsibility for developing and delivering a major part of the organisation's product development programme in order to enable overall corporate strategy.
• Build the strategy to achieve medium term business needs for a significant area of responsibility e.g. a function by anticipating complex issues, challenges and opportunities and ensures implementation and execution of the strategy.
  
  

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience defining technology vision and architecture working closely with lead architects to drive strategic development
• A deep, inquisitive focus on technology, with a track record of identifying opportunities to optimise and enhance systems and processes
• A strong understanding of the experience, with hands on experience in improving team productivity, morale and overall efficiency
• A solid background in resilience and security by design, ensuring teams take full ownership of production issues and prioritise a customer first approach
• A passion for developing talent, fostering a product-based mindset, attracting and retaining top engineering talent.
• Experience in creatinghigh performing teamsand mobilising them to deliver solutions indemanding timescales.
  
  

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 performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• Generous holiday allowance, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
  
  

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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