Tech Lead

Lloyds Banking Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 104,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is looking for a Tech Lead to join their Identity & Authentication Platform. This role involves leading a talented group of engineers, ensuring delivery of secure client and digital authentication solutions. Candidates should have proficiency in Java and experience with containerisation and cloud platforms. The role offers a hybrid working pattern and comes with a competitive salary range of £104,686 - £123,160 per annum.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday

Qualifications

• Significant experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems.
• Proven experience of automation and CI/CD processes.
• Practical experience of Cloud native solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project goals.
• Mentor and coach teams to develop their skills.

Skills

Proficiency in Java

Knowledge of Go

Knowledge of JavaScript

Knowledge of React

Experience with Docker

Experience with Kubernetes

Experience with Kafka

Tools

GCP

Azure

Job description

Job Summary

End Date: Thursday 29 January 2026

Salary Range: £104,686 - £190,898

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

Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

The Identity & Authentication Platform delivers capabilities to enable LBG business areas secure client and digital authentication and identity across all their digital channels. The Platform delivers core products including Identity & Authentication as a Service, giving end-to-end packaged services of several components for self-serve consumption.

As a Tech Lead, you’ll be responsible for leading a talented group of engineers, guiding them through the complexities of software engineering and overseeing the delivery of robust, scalable solutions. You’ll demonstrate your technical expertise to ensure that our products meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and security while aligning with our strategic vision.

This role will give you the opportunity to work with modern tech stacks, microservices, and cloud-based architectures, while collaborating closely with multi-functional teams to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Job Details

JOB TITLE: Tech Lead

SALARY: £104,686 – £123,160 per annum

LOCATION: London

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

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

About Us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About This Opportunity

The Identity & Authentication (ID&Auth) Platform is recruiting for a Tech Lead to focus on contributing to technical delivery. ID&Auth enables secure client and digital authentication and identity across all digital channels for Lloyds Banking Group’s business areas.

The Platform delivers core products including:

• ID&Auth as a Service, giving end-to-end packaged services of several components for self-serve consumption to give strategic capabilities of centralised and reusable authentication services.
• A suite of authentication methods (either 1 or multi-factor depending on regulation obligations).
• A scaled, centralised and hosting agnostic Authorisation as a Service capability consisting of a Token Exchange component and the provision of a signed token for Channels to use downstream, allowing management of their access.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end design, implementation and delivery of future architecture for highly scalable, resilient low latency systems.
• Collaborate with the head of engineering, product owners, solution architects, and other colleagues to define and drive the software engineering teams’ roadmap, scope, and delivery goals.
• Lead engineering best practices.
• Drive technical strategy and direction for engineering team.
• Deliver technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple entities across the group.
• Drive the culture of delivering highly secured and high-quality software.
• Identify and eliminate recurring issues by automating processes.
• Have cross-functional and cross-product impact in the organisation.
• Initiate, design and drive high impact ideas using the right design principles.
• Mentor and coach software engineering teams, developing their skills and career growth.

What You’ll Need

• Proficiency in scripting in Java; also any working knowledge of Go, JavaScript and React would be beneficial.
• Significant experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems and large-scale data processing systems in production with a proven track record.
• Proven experience of automation and CI/CD and of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and of Kafka.
• Practical experience of Cloud native solutions, and of cloud platforms and storage such as GCP and Azure.

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 welcome applications from under-represented groups and are disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Benefits

• 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.

Employer Statement

At Lloyds Banking Group, we are 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 only ask for confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, which is when background checks run. 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.