Lead Integrator, Heritage Platform

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Friday 29 March 2024
Salary Range
£73,262 - £86,190
Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Heritage Platform which sits in our Insurance, Pensions & Investments division - more info below!
Job Description
Job Title: Lead Integrator, Heritage Platform
Salary: £73,262 - £86,190
Location: Edinburgh, Bristol or Leeds
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 Edinburgh office location.
About this opportunity:
In Heritage Platform we’re responsible for the management and migration from our legacy products and technical estates. This critical Platform has a diverse and exciting span of significant deliverables which are key to the overall strategy of Insurance, Pensions & Investments.
The purpose of the role is to coordinate dependencies between the platform and partners external to the platform such as other platforms, Group Executive Functions, and 3rd parties, this may include coordinating complex and high-risk implementations. The Lead Integrator sits at Platform-level and covers both business and technology change.

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll establish pivotal integration points across Labs/Platforms and effectively communicates these integration points to relevant collaborators. Developing the sequence for integration related tasks in collaboration with Lab Leadership and aligned to the Lab backlog.
• You’ll catalogue and manage dependencies between other teams, working with partners to ensure interlock, enabling the platform to deliver at pace. You’ll identify blockers to delivery and, where possible, mitigate/resolve, raising to product owner(s)/platform leadership where required.
• By managing suppliers (3rd Party), you’ll provide oversight and manage underperformance. You’ll manage complex and high-risk implementations requiring integration between multiple parties (internal/external) to ensure safe delivery.
• You’ll coordinate the integration process and/or implementation events across shared infrastructure (e.g. Upgrading the Mainframe); leading on the SI process, coordinating parties to get the change over the line. You’ll provide expertise (not content) for governance activity owned by the Product Owner, e.g. PRIA, for change across multiple programmes.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, progressive business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s encouraging its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need:

• Agile Methodology & Tools - Manages a number of agile teams across the business, delivering high priority or significant change to the Bank. Acts as a servant leader to create a work environment in which colleagues at all levels feel respected, appreciated, and valued.
• Partner Management - Uses personal impact and positioning to build and sustain long-term relationships at all levels (including C-suite Executives). Resolves conflicts, builds consensus and influences outcomes.
• Planning, Tracking, Reporting & Governance - Communicates regular status updates to key partners and resolves high priority issues affecting delivery. Uses experience to manage critical risks/issues/dependencies arising out of Status Reporting and agile meetings, takes ownership for critical issues and ensures resolution within agreed timescales.
• Leadership & Culture - Applies experience in cultural change initiatives to support various agendas in the Group (e.g., feedback culture). Understands the main barriers to changing culture and the criticality of leadership consensus.

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 or identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, offer 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, please 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 family leave policies

The pension landscape is being revolutionised by technology, and this is an opportunity to be at the forefront. Could you be who we’re looking for?! 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

• You’ll establish pivotal integration points across Labs/Platforms and effectively communicates these integration points to relevant collaborators. Developing the sequence for integration related tasks in collaboration with Lab Leadership and aligned to the Lab backlog.
• You’ll catalogue and manage dependencies between other teams, working with partners to ensure interlock, enabling the platform to deliver at pace. You’ll identify blockers to delivery and, where possible, mitigate/resolve, raising to product owner(s)/platform leadership where required.
• By managing suppliers (3rd Party), you’ll provide oversight and manage underperformance. You’ll manage complex and high-risk implementations requiring integration between multiple parties (internal/external) to ensure safe delivery.
• You’ll coordinate the integration process and/or implementation events across shared infrastructure (e.g. Upgrading the Mainframe); leading on the SI process, coordinating parties to get the change over the line. You’ll provide expertise (not content) for governance activity owned by the Product Owner, e.g. PRIA, for change across multiple programmes