At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and develop innovative payment solutions in a dynamic team environment.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company committed to diversity and inclusion.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, generous pension, and 30 days holiday.
- Other info: Flexible hybrid working pattern and excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on payment services while advancing your career.
- Qualifications: Strong understanding of application stacks and experience with microservices technologies.
The predicted salary is between 84624 - 105780 £ per year.
Salary: £84,624 - £105,780
Location: London
Hours: Full‑time
Working Pattern: Hybrid: at least two days a week or 40% of time at one of our office sites. Disability adjustments are available.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead and develop innovative payment solutions and services as part of the Enterprise & Accounting Lab, supporting accounting, reconciliation, and payment integration capabilities across core payment services.
- Provide technical leadership across business‑critical payment services (e.g. Faster Payments, CHAPS, COP), shaping architecture and delivery beyond a single team.
- Own end‑to‑end technical outcomes at team or lab level, accountable for quality, resilience, and delivery predictability.
- Lead complex design decisions for low‑latency, resilient, secure, and compliant payment solutions.
- Manage cross‑team dependencies, technical risks, and delivery impediments impacting the Payments Services Platform.
- Balance customer outcomes, regulatory risk, and platform maintainability when making delivery decisions.
- Drive DevOps maturity across teams through improvements to CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and quality controls.
What we’re looking for:
- Strong understanding of an entire application stack and experience with microservices technologies (Spring Boot, JSON, Kafka, RESTful APIs, web services).
- Proven experience designing and delivering resilient, scalable, secure payment services in regulated environments.
- Systems and solution design capability, evidence of leading technical decisions beyond a single feature.
- Technical leadership: setting engineering standards, reviewing designs and code, improving quality and DevOps maturity.
- Expertise in modern microservices, APIs, event‑driven architectures and non‑functional requirements such as latency, availability, and recoverability.
- Live service health ownership: incident response, root‑cause analysis, preventative resilience improvements.
- Ability to scale technical impact by mentoring engineers, influencing stakeholders, and improving platform‑level ways of working.
- Technical knowledge of Spring Boot, Camel, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience with cloud‑based tools (IBM Cloud Private, Google GCP, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS).
Benefits:
- Generous pension contribution up to 15%
- Annual performance‑related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits adapted to lifestyle (discounted shopping)
- 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Diversity and inclusion:
We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion for all and offer reasonable adjustments for disability, neurodivergent and other conditions.
Lead Software Engineer employer: LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
Lloyds Banking Group is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. With the flexibility of remote working and opportunities for career advancement within the Economic Crime Prevention function, employees can thrive in a supportive environment while contributing to meaningful compliance efforts. The company's commitment to diversity and inclusion further enhances its appeal, making it a rewarding place to build a career.
