Head Of Engineering with LLOYDS BANK PLC

SALARY: £144,424 – £169,910 in London, £121,023 – £142,380 outside of London

LOCATION(S): London, Leeds or Manchester with some travel required within the UK.

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office location.

About this opportunity

The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK’s biggest financial service transformations.

Your role as an Engineering Lead is to be a visionary leader who works collaboratively with the Product Owner and others to create an organisation that provides the best value propositions to our customers. You will lead a team of 75-150 engineers, peered with a Lead Product Owner, and reporting to the Cloud Platform Director.

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 with your Lead Product Owner who will define the What & Why the team delivers, 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.

You’ll encourage teams to actively take part in Guilds, Inner Source activities and other forums and meet-ups through which our engineering methods and practices can be shared and developed so that new insights and ideas can be brought back to the lab to further improve engineering effectiveness. You’ll form part of a broader engineering leadership team across the Platform to support your ongoing development and be involved in initiatives outside the Platform.

You’ll have responsibility for hiring and growing existing engineering talent across the engineering teams, including across subject areas such as Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering and DevOps, enabling teams to reach their full potential.

You’ll enable a culture of learning and continuous improvement through a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” mentality within teams to experiment and test new ways of engineering, to act as a change agent for engineering and team culture, and to foster a systems-thinking and user-experience led design approach.

The ideal candidate will inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust.

Key responsibilities

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 effectively.

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 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.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

As a leader:

We are modernising with cloud, building a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers: easy, modern and green for developers. Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

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.

Vision and the ability to provide an engineering strategy and roadmap.

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.

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.

As an Engineer:

Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners.

Extensive software engineering background with one or more programming languages.

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.

Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve.

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 lead 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.

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 . click apply for full job details