Engineering Lead

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Tuesday 03 September 2024
Salary Range
£86,964 - £102,310
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Job Description
Job Title: Engineering Lead
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £86,964 - £102,310
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.
About us
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!
About this opportunity
Within the Credit Platform, we’re working through a modernisation and simplification of our Commercial Credit application landscape. This multi-year programme will use the LBG’s latest technologies and data to enable the Credit business to make the right decisions for customers.
The Credit Platform are building a team of multi-skilled engineers, delivering technology services and data transformations in support of all aspects of Credit Risk Management from Automated Decisioning, Portfolio Management through to Analytics and Reporting.
The platform is moving to fully populated, agile development teams. Each of these multi-skilled teams will have clear objectives and accountabilities and understand their role in delivering the transformation of Credit Risk.

What you’ll do

• Lead a group of engineers to design, develop and integrate software features to achieve their goals. Aligning team goals with the needs of the broader lab, platform, and group.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and Customer Journey Managers to deliver features on the product roadmaps, run down technical debt, maintain the health of production instances and to build the space to develop the skills needed by the target technology architecture.
• Engineer solutions to be reliable, scalable, performant, and secure through solution design, utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns.
• Seek to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, and foster collective responsibility of ceremonies.
• Take hands on ownership for unblocking technical challenges and forward look to prove out solutions ready for full use within the team, lab, or platform.
• Collaborate with Agility Leads to advance the effectiveness of the team by installing change that increases the cadence of delivery, reduces cost ownership, and persists high quality of change.
• Install active application custodianship to manage incidents, compliance findings, risks and running costs where it’s the right answer for the team to maintain production instances.
• Manage a team of engineers to provide ongoing application support, including monitoring, security scanning, vulnerability, and incident management.
• Work to build a strong team by coaching, developing and mentoring engineers on how to achieve their team, technical and personal goals. Attracting new talent into the team and by managing retentions risks.

What you’ll need

• Strong application or data development background
• Experience in leading solutions involving data integration methodologies, relational databases with ETL principles and practices.
• Knowledge of modern software development practices – ideally this would include Cloud hosting (GCP/OCP), Containers, Kubernetes, API’s, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery and Google Cloud Tools.
• Experience of working as part of an agile team using agile practices and tooling such as Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Jira Align & Confluence.
• Be a strong, experienced leader and positive role model, creating an environment where people are motivated to be their best, every day.
• We would welcome someone that can demonstrate in-progress learning journey towards cloud technology accreditations (Google Cloud Associate Engineer, Professional Data Engineer, or Cloud Architect) whilst evidencing hands-on experience in On-Premises Application technology build and deployment.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• 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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference

• Lead a group of engineers to design, develop and integrate software features to achieve their goals. Aligning team goals with the needs of the broader lab, platform, and group.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and Customer Journey Managers to deliver features on the product roadmaps, run down technical debt, maintain the health of production instances and to build the space to develop the skills needed by the target technology architecture.
• Engineer solutions to be reliable, scalable, performant, and secure through solution design, utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns.
• Seek to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, and foster collective responsibility of ceremonies.
• Take hands on ownership for unblocking technical challenges and forward look to prove out solutions ready for full use within the team, lab, or platform.
• Collaborate with Agility Leads to advance the effectiveness of the team by installing change that increases the cadence of delivery, reduces cost ownership, and persists high quality of change.
• Install active application custodianship to manage incidents, compliance findings, risks and running costs where it’s the right answer for the team to maintain production instances.
• Manage a team of engineers to provide ongoing application support, including monitoring, security scanning, vulnerability, and incident management.
• Work to build a strong team by coaching, developing and mentoring engineers on how to achieve their team, technical and personal goals. Attracting new talent into the team and by managing retentions risks