Engineering Lead, Lloyds
£140.2-170k
+ Annual performance-related bonus + Share schemes including free shares
JIRA
Confluence
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
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Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
B2CB2BBanking
Be an early applicant
£140.2-170k
+ Annual performance-related bonus + Share schemes including free shares
JIRA
Confluence
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
B2CB2BBanking
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- Vision and the ability to provide an engineering strategy and roadmap
- Self-starter who inspires and motivates the teams around you
- Experience working with large scale data solutions and be passionate about inspiring change in data across the Group
- 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 through Chapter development
- Ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary, internal and external geographically distributed teams across the project lifecycle
- Curious to learn and develop yourself with industry standard methodology 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 Lab on them through Chapters
- 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
- Are environment aware, can identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve
- Are technology agnostic and are willing to adapt approach in pursuit of the optimal solution
- Are 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 works with teams to provide reassurance and mitigate behavioural change
- Understand the benefits of BDD & TDD and ensure engineers write upfront tests against team defined agile definitions and delivery stories
- Are industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team
What the job involves
- The Customer Data Services (CDS) platform operates within the CIO Enabling Services and our purpose is to ‘Enable the Bank to gain value from data by providing safe and efficient Group-wide data capabilities and services’
- We work closely in partnership with our colleagues in the Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO)
- The CDS Platform is responsible for maintaining, transforming and innovating the infrastructure and software required to ensure that our customer data, API platforms and technological capabilities meet the bank's needs now and in the future
- Your role as the Engineering Lead is to be a visionary leader who works collaboratively with the Product Owner and the other lab roles to create an organisation that is truly data driven and providing the best value propositions to our customers
- Delivery of Value:
- A visionary leader who works with the Product Owner, Chapter Leads, Architects and data content teams to build an inspiring data content services engineering strategy that provides inspiration and purpose
- Responsible for creating amazing data content 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 Chapter Leads 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 the Lab is carried out in line with the Bank standards including all decision making
- Accountable for maximising the safe delegation of authority and empowerment to Lab Chapters 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 data content 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 Chapters
- 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 InnerSource delivery methods
- A highly experienced member of our wider Engineering team, and we expect the Lab Engineering Lead to drive exemplary software engineering practices as well as mentor and nurture the talent at all levels of their software engineering community
Application process
- End Date: February 5, 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy – including for its handling of PPI complaints in 2015, and the 2009 European Commission ruling that forced it to part ways with TSB – but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
Of the company’s 26 million customers, over 18 million of them are online, making it the largest UK digital bank. As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its current technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
Recently, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on FinTech Action Labs (a FinTech accelerator programme) to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. As well as investment in digital transformation and AI, the company is enhancing its wealth product and corporate banking offerings, as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
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Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company values
- We trust each other to achieve more together. We listen to, and are honest with, each other. We take things on, see them through, and give others the space and support to do the same.
- We put people first, and empower our colleagues to go the extra mile for our customers and communities. We treat everyone as individuals, and we don’t put processes ahead of real people’s needs.
- We embrace our differences to value everyone. We seek out diverse perspectives in order to learn about people’s different and changing needs, and to see how we can best support these.
- We’re bold and take action to drive the best outcomes for our customers. We champion ideas that move us forward, and we innovate for better results. We challenge things that aren’t right and make it our job to change them.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive, not founder)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
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