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JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead
SALARY: £90,440 – £117,000
LOCATION: Halifax or Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Halifax or Edinburgh office.
About this opportunity...
Are you a tech leader who loves empowering teams and driving? We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to drive the success of our teams, ensuring they have everything they need to thrive. In this role, you’ll set the overall direction for our engineering teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and efficiency. You’ll work closely with product owners to make sure technology is at the heart of decision-making, while also keeping a close eye on risk, resilience, and costs. You will be coding day to day, performing code reviews, utilize your deep technical expertise to guide and mentor the team towards delivering a high-quality software.
If you’re ready to step into a leadership role that shapes both people and technology, we’d love to hear from you!
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. Join us on our journey and you will too…
What you’ll need...
10+ years of 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 person who combines strategic leadership with deep technical expertise in Java/Spring/Python/Big Data Tech and paves the way for the engineering teams to deliver high quality, enterprise grade, high-availability systems
A drive to learn new and upcoming technologies and best practices – The bank and the team is investing in GenAI backed applications and a strong willingness to learn and contribute will make you stand out.
Strong background on Linux and GCP/AWS/Azure. Experience on containers, Kubernetes and/or serverless architecture will be highly advantageous
Collaborative mind-set with cross-functional leadership across Product, DevOps, Security, QA and Infrastructure.
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 to build high-performing teams
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 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
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!
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.
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