Public Cloud Engineering Lead, Lloyds
£124.7-148.8k
Salary varies depending on location. Plus annual performance‑related bonus and share schemes, including free shares
2 days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
Be an early applicant
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£124.7-148.8k
Salary varies depending on location. Plus annual performance‑related bonus and share schemes, including free shares
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive software engineering background (any modern programming language)
- Strong experience leading large-scale engineering teams in complex organisations
- Proven experience in cloud-based engineering—preferably Azure, GCP, Kubernetes or API platforms
- Deep understanding of modern software engineering lifecycle, DevOps tooling, CI/CD and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence)
- Ability to build trust, resolve technical impediments, and facilitate high‑quality decision making
- A collaborative leadership style, able to listen, reflect and adapt
- Strong communication skills with the ability to energise teams
- Commitment to building autonomous teams with clear purpose and empowered delivery
- Curiosity to learn and evolve engineering practices for better customer and colleague outcomes
- Passion for automation, engineering quality and continuous improvement
What the job involves
- We’re modernising our technology estate using cloud platforms to provide services that are fast, secure, resilient for customers, and modern, simple and sustainable for our engineers. Our Cloud Platform underpins the Group's transformation, delivering capabilities primarily on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
- As an Engineering Lead, you will lead a large engineering organisation of approximately 75–150 engineers, working in partnership with a Lead Product Owner and reporting to the Cloud Platform Director
- We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Apigee
- Your role will combine strategic engineering leadership, team empowerment, and modern engineering excellence. You’ll work closely with product, architecture and engineering colleagues to deliver high‑quality cloud capabilities across the Group
- Provide a compelling engineering strategy and roadmap for cloud platform teams
- Inspire and motivate multi-disciplinary engineering teams to deliver exceptional customer outcomes
- Collaborate with the Lead Product Owner who defines the What and Why, while you drive the How—including engineering methods, technical decisions, and ways of working
- Champion modern engineering approaches including agile delivery, automation, observability, platform engineering and DevOps practices
- Encourage participation in Guilds, Communities of Practice, Inner Source, and engineering meet‑ups to drive continual improvement and knowledge sharing
- Support teams in adopting engineering practices aligned to Systems Thinking, Service Design and data‑driven decision making
- Talent‑spot, recruit, and develop engineers across infrastructure, software, DevOps and cloud disciplines
- Create a learning culture with a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” mindset
- Coach engineers and engineering managers to build a strong, inclusive and collaborative culture
- Ensure all engineering work meets Bank standards for security, resilience, risk, and change control
- Maximise safe empowerment and delegated decision‑making across teams
- Work with architects and engineering communities to ensure alignment with patterns, standards, and best practice
- Define and communicate a clear engineering strategy
- Inspire high performance and innovation across cloud engineering teams
- Support continuous improvement using agile and modern engineering practices
- Ensure all engineering work meets Bank security, risk and governance standards
- Support safe delegation and empowered decision‑making
- Build and develop high-performing, inclusive engineering teams
- Promote growth through coaching, mentoring, learning, and community participation
- Act as a senior member of the wider engineering leadership community
Application process
- End Date: February 22, 2026
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, but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
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 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.
On top of this, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on "FinTech Action Labs" to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. The company continues to enhance its online and mobile services (it is the UK's biggest mobile bank), as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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 HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive)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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