Machine Learning & Data Engineering

Lloyds Bank plc; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid working

Job summary

Lloyds Technology Centre in Hyderabad is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape the engineering strategy and guide up to 20 engineers. You will work with product owners, architects, and cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable software while promoting a culture of learning and innovation.

The role emphasizes autonomous teams, mentoring, and joining guilds and internal forums to advance engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of the software development lifecycle and end-to-end delivery.
• Experience with agile methods and tooling (Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence).
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD and modern toolchains.

Responsibilities

• Define an inspiring services engineering strategy with the Product Owner and teams.
• Motivate and guide teams to embrace agile principles and a fail-fast approach.
• Ensure platforms and software are built with consistent patterns and best practices.
• Mentor and develop talent across the engineering community.

Skills

Engineering strategy

Team leadership

Software engineering

Communication

Autonomy empowerment

Coaching

Cross-functional teamwork

Lifelong learning

Principles & values

Job description

End Date Sunday 30 August 2026

We Support Flexible Working - Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

Your role as an Engineering Lead is to be a visionary leader who works collaboratively with others to create an organisation that provides the best value propositions to our customers. You will be responsible for leading a team of up to 20 engineers. You’ll encourage teams to actively take part in Guilds, Inner Source activities and other forums and meet-ups through which our engineering methods and practices can be shared and developed so that new insights and ideas can be brought back to the lab to further improve engineering effectiveness. You’ll have responsibility for hiring and growing existing engineering talent across the engineering teams enabling teams to reach their full potential. You’ll enable a culture of learning and continuous improvement through a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” mentality within teams to experiment and test new ways of engineering, to act as a change agent for engineering and team culture, and to foster a systems-thinking and user-experience led design approach.

What you’ll need:

• Vision and the ability to provide an engineering strategy and roadmap
• Self-starter who inspires and motivates the teams around you
• Extensive software engineering background with one or more programming languages
• Ability to listen and reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion but you are not strongly tied to it
• Champion an environment where teams are empowered to be autonomous and self-sufficient, and you provide purpose, guidance and support where needed
• Passionate coach for other engineers to build a strong team culture
• Ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary, internal and external geographically distributed teams across the product lifecycle
• Curious to learn and develop yourself with industry best practice methods and tooling, along with the tools used by their engineering teams, to make valuable contributions in validating team engineering work and decisions
• Ability to motivate, to challenge the status quo and you have an appreciation and understanding of first principles thinking
• Demonstrate the following Engineering Principles and Core Values within your work, whilst educating the rest of the team on them.

As an Engineer:

• Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners
• Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve
• Be technology agnostic and willing to adapt approach in pursuit of the best solution
• Be anchored to core engineering area and carry the ability to test, learn and mentor others
• Understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt
• Understand the benefits of measuring change and work with teams to provide reassurance and mitigate behavioural change
• Understand agile and the relationship between agile definitions and automated delivery
• Be passionate about automating everything
• Be industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team

Knowledge & Experience

Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products Significant experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team Strong software development background essential, along with knowledge of modern software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery

Key Responsibilities Delivery of Value:

A visionary leader who works with the Product Owner, Architects and teams to build an inspiring services engineering strategy that provides inspiration and purpose. Responsible for creating amazing capabilities for our customers using technical expertise to deliver change through modern engineering tools and methods and by inspiring teams to embrace agile principles, encourage innovation, and foster a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” approach. An inspiring communicator who can work with all levels of the organisation, energising teams and ensuring communication is flowing affectively. Work with the team and the wider Engineering Community to ensure that platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices, ensuring a collaborative environment to share ideas and work through complex problems.

Compliance and Governance

Accountable for ensuring that all Engineering work in is carried out in line with the Bank standards including all decision making. Accountable for maximising the safe delegation of authority and empowerment to the team in line with the above and in line with the core principle of Transformation

Creating and Protecting the Culture

Look out and hire new talent with a focus on building amazing teams with a collaborative and inclusive culture where teams are empowered to test and learn. Able to nurture teams, support them through a culture of openness and trust, and to make teams the best they can be. You have a strong passion and technical understanding of systems and can provide support, knowledge and mentoring to the teams. This includes helping teams to use the best engineering practices, tooling and methods and to encourage them to contribute towards inner‑source activities and attend Meetups. Champion the principles & aims of Transformation to guide and support teams through the Transformational change. Work with Agile Coaches to create opportunities for learning and growth for all. Encourage engineers to join Communities of Practice, Guilds and Working Groups to deliver peer‑to‑peer mentoring and joint engineering initiatives via coordinated sessions and Inner Source delivery methods. A highly experienced member of our wider Engineering team, and we expect the Engineering Lead to drive exemplary software engineering practices as well as mentor and nurture the talent at all levels of their software engineering community.

Job Description Experience:

16-20 years

Location

Hyderabad

We’re Lloyds Technology Centre*, a tech and data company located in Hyderabad, India. We’re part of Lloyds Banking Group, a leading provider of financial services in the UK and the UK’s largest digital bank, with more than 27 million customers. We’re changing financial services, and we want you to join us. With market-leading people practices and great opportunities for career and skills growth, we are committed to creating an exceptional colleague experience that is welcoming for all. Join us! *Lloyds Technology Centre does not offer financial services in India.