Public Cloud Engineering Lead, Lloyds

• We are particularly interested in people with experience in one or more of the following: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Terraform, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, Apigee, Azure API Management, Harness, Backstage, VMware Aria Suite, Kafka and modern middleware or integration products
• As a Leader:
• Vision and the ability to provide an engineering strategy and roadmap
• Self-starter who inspires and motivates the teams around you
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Your role as an Engineering Lead is to be a visionary leader who works collaboratively with the Product Owner and the 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
• Given the largest volume of work is inbound work delivered to support the initiatives for other platforms and business areas you’ll need to be a phenomenal collaborator with a passion for leading great collaboration work
• You’ll work together leading the teams with your Lead Product Owner who will define the What & Why the team deliver, and you working out the How including not just the engineering solutions but how we implement changes to our work, e.g. Agile methods and instrumentation
• 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

• End Date: April 29, 2025
• Join us for an ask me anything session on Tuesday 22nd from 12:00 to 13:00. If you would like to be included in this call, please email Cloudbusinessmanagement@lloydsbanking.com

• 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.

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.