Engineering Lead, Lloyds

£100.7-118.4k

+ Annual performance-related bonus

Java
Kafka
Spring
Expert level
London

More information about location

2 days a week in office

Lloyds

Retail and commercial bank

Be an early applicant

Lloyds

Retail and commercial bank

1001+ employees

B2CB2BBanking

Be an early applicant

£100.7-118.4k

+ Annual performance-related bonus

Java
Kafka
Spring
Expert level
London

More information about location

2 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

  • Experience within a senior management role in an Engineering function, ideally a background within software development
  • Demonstrable leadership and line management skills working within an agile delivery cadence
  • Architecture and Engineering knowledge esp. on Java, spring boot, Kafka, and Cloud
  • Technical knowledge of microservices development
  • A broad ranging general level of technical knowledge

Desirable

  • Experience in the Payments Domain / Financial Services in general
  • Exposure to private or public cloud
  • Understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration tooling

What the job involves

  • Your role will be instrumental in driving the engineering excellence, embedding agile, DevOps and supportive high performing culture across the lab
  • Your primary focus will be prioritising and delivering key changes across a completely modern technology stack and supporting a service that is critical for our customers, business and the wider UK economic infrastructure
  • Your responsibilities will also include the growth and development of our people, attracting and retaining talent and of the overall technical excellence of engineering, architecture and DevOps skills within the lab
  • As an Engineering Lead in our Instant Payments lab, you will work in a highly collaborative lab to build, support and improve our faster payments journey within our public and private Cloud hosting platform
  • You’ll form part of the senior management team, managing the engineers in your teams and taking responsibility for their learning and development
  • Engineers will be multi-disciplinary including software engineers, quality engineers, solution engineers / architects and DevOps to name a few
  • Through your team you’ll aim to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually coaching, motivating, mentoring, and supporting the team
  • Establish and lead our design and decision-making forums, providing expert guidance to colleagues based on your extensive knowledge
  • Build and nurture relationships with senior leaders to effectively influence and bring visionary strategies to life across the organization
  • Oversee the management of key stakeholders within the business and maintain productive partnerships with external collaborators
  • Harness the power of both private and public cloud technologies, pushing the boundaries of what's possible and enhancing our technical capabilities
  • Lead and mentor multiple feature teams, empowering them to own and deliver innovative solutions. You'll play a pivotal role in their daily success and advocate for their work at the highest levels of the company
  • Create and implement technical strategies aimed at transforming and modernizing our lab infrastructure
  • Educate both technical and non-technical colleagues about DevOps topics and articulate reasoning behind key technical decisions

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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