End Date
Thursday 26 March 2026Salary Range
£92,701 - £109,060We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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.Job Description
JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead - Payments Lab
SALARY: £92,701 - £109,000
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location
About this opportunity
We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our International & CHAPS Lab in the Payments Services Platform. We're responsible for over 4bn UK electronic Payments including Faster Payments, BACS, International Payments. Our team works in close collaboration with industry groups and regulators to protect the UK, the Bank and our Customers. We sit in the Payments Services Platform which provides compliant, efficient and innovative payments capabilities for the Group to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely. We are a supportive and diverse community where we’re passionate about collaboration and growing together.
In the Engineering Lead Role, you will deliver the highest quality customer-driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting your engineering teams. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model.
About us
Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.
What You’ll need
Experience across the Payments domain, industry and technology ecosystem.
Ability to meet changing requirements by developing new testing approaches and strategy for a defined range of products and/or operations.
Experience in providing Software Engineering oversight, technical and people leadership across multiple teams.
Takes responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department, while informally coaching and mentoring others throughout the organisation and investing in own personal development.
Experience in inspiring delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust.
Ability to address risks across our current service through investing in our assets and security capabilities.
Experience in delivering Cloud based technologies.
And the following would be really useful
Strong working knowledge of Payments Systems such as Faster Payments, BACS, CHAPS and International, and/or Payment Reconciliations or Accounting Services.
Good understanding of Microservices Architecture.
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 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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
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.
