Real Estate Technology Lead

lloyds banking group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider based in the UK is seeking a visionary Real Estate Technology Lead to shape the future of workplace technologies. This role involves developing a multi-year strategy that aligns with business priorities while enhancing colleague experience through innovative solutions and digital tools. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in workplace technology strategy development and a strong understanding of agile methodologies.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Benefits adaptable to lifestyle

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in workplace technology strategy development.
• Understanding of workplace strategies and hybrid working practices.
• Experience working with technical and cross‑functional agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a multi-year workplace technology strategy.
• Lead horizon scanning for market trends and vendor innovations.
• Translate strategic goals into actionable initiatives and delivery plans.

Skills

Product Innovation

Financial Planning & Analysis

Critical Thinking

Collaboration

Tools

Agile methodology

Scrum

Kanban

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a visionary Real Estate Technology Lead, to shape the future of how our organisation works. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining a multi-year workplace technology strategy and roadmap that aligns with business priorities and supports future ways of working. You will ensure that our technology investments deliver measurable value, enhance colleague experience, and enable collaboration at scale. This is a strategic leadership role that combines technology foresight, behavioural insight, and organisational impact. Champion workplace effectiveness by ensuring digital tools are not only implemented but embedded into everyday work practices, driving productivity and engagement. You will lead the shaping of the future of work by setting the strategic vision for workplace technologies and digital platforms. In this role, you will define and deliver a clear direction for how technology underpins collaboration, productivity, and colleague experience across the organisation. Ensuring that every solution aligns with organisational goals, supports hybrid and flexible working models, and drives measurable business value. Your remit will include developing scalable, future-ready technology strategies that anticipate evolving needs and embed principles of sustainability, accessibility, and resilience. Champion innovation by scanning the horizon for market trends, AI-driven capabilities, and digital workplace advancements, translating these into actionable roadmaps and investment cases. Beyond strategy, you'll develop a culture of continuous improvement and digital confidence, ensuring that workplace technologies are not only implemented but fully adopted and optimised. By using data, insights, and colleague feedback, you'll find opportunities to enhance workplace effectiveness, streamline processes, and create seamless, intuitive experiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a multi-year workplace technology strategy and roadmap (e.g., Microsoft 365, Copilot, Condeco, Omnia), aligned with business priorities and future ways of working.
• Use internal data and insights (e.g., colleague feedback, usage analytics, service performance) to identify problems, opportunities, and priorities. Develop compelling workplace technology propositions that meet colleague needs and drive adoption.
• Lead horizon scanning to track market trends, vendor innovations, and peer benchmarks to identify emerging technologies and trends.
• Translate strategic goals into actionable initiatives, investment cases, and delivery plans, including the evaluation of pilots and proofs of concept to inform strategic decisions.
• Use data and feedback to measure user impact, success factors and cost/benefits, to identify improvements, and inform future investment.
• Collaborate with People & Places, IT, Cyber, Sourcing, Service Design and external partners to ensure cohesive user‑centric scalable delivery. Embed governance, compliance, and sustainability in all technology decisions and ensure the roadmap reflects sustainability, accessibility, and security principles.
• Represent workplace technology in governance forums, steering groups, and transformation programmes, communicating strategy and roadmap clearly across all levels of the organisation.

Key Capabilities

• Product Innovation: Experienced at applying colleague, business and market analysis methodology to understand the colleague and market landscape and translate the understanding into new and innovative product ideas. Use varied experience to support the product to delivery.
• Financial Planning & Analysis: Capable of building budget and financial plans/forecasts. Analyse financial data for large‑scale/complex investment funding and ensure that plans meet the budgetary requirements. Demonstrates in‑depth knowledge of the funding and investment models.
• Critical Thinking: Adept at using a systematic approach to derive the best solution, with awareness of biases and experience of communicating solutions to senior partners in a compelling way. Takes action to define, plan and implement the best solution.
• Collaboration: Experienced at building and sustaining a network of relationships, encouraging team to networking and collaboration and managing complex collaborators.
• Values & Behaviours: Future focussed, able to communicate positions that align with the overall Group Strategy. Finds solutions, not problems. An early adopter of change and drives transformation at pace with a growth mindset. Works with integrity and promotes an inclusive environment.

Technical Skills

• Proven experience in workplace technology strategy development, digital workplace transformation, or enterprise IT planning, including knowledge of governance, compliance, sustainability and accessibility principles in technology delivery.
• Understanding of workplace strategies and hybrid working practices.
• Experience working with technical and cross‑functional agile teams to deliver change.
• Agile methodology and tools expertise (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence) and experience of leading and working as part of an agile team.
• Experience tackling complex problems and breaking them out into a roadmap of viable solutions.
• Experience of financial planning and cost control: a track record of delivering within budget and using resources effectively.

Benefits

• 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
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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. We are committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve. 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. We especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups and are disability confident. We also offer a wide‑ranging benefits package that supports your wellbeing.