Engineering Manager — Lead High-Scale Distributed Systems

Lloyds Banking Group; Gildersome; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK seeks an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams in creating scalable systems. Responsibilities include recruitment, mentoring, and managing project timelines in an Agile environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD. This role offers a competitive salary, hybrid work, and a comprehensive benefits package including generous holidays and pension contributions.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams, ideally in a high-scale, distributed environment.
• Strong technical background in at least one software engineering discipline.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines for scalable and automated deployments.

Responsibilities

• Manage 1-2 teams of high calibre Software Engineers working on building, scaling world-class, distributed systems.
• Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach software engineers at different levels of experience.
• Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments within an Agile/Scrum environment.

Skills

Leadership of engineering teams

Technical background in software engineering

Kubernetes experience

Terraform knowledge

CI/CD pipeline experience

API-driven architectures understanding

Focus on observability and monitoring

Balancing technical debt with velocity

Passion for people development

Data-driven decision making

Job description

A leading financial services provider in the UK seeks an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams in creating scalable systems. Responsibilities include recruitment, mentoring, and managing project timelines in an Agile environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD. This role offers a competitive salary, hybrid work, and a comprehensive benefits package including generous holidays and pension contributions.