Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead

The purpose of the Engineering Lead is to support the Lab leadership and the teams within their area to deliver against the strategy and their goals. Are you ready to join our Transport Platform team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation? The role sits within the Transport Platform, which is a key member of the wider Consumer Lending Business Unit. Our mission is to keep Britain moving by providing customer focused solutions to facilitate access to vehicles, maintenance, and related services including Digital account management. We are committed to supporting the Group and wider UK in driving forward the sustainability agenda.

In pursuit of our mission, we are on a journey to transform our core technology architecture and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. We're investing heavily in simplifying and modernising our technology architecture by developing new digital journeys, enabled by microservices, and leveraging a new data ecosystem. All using modern frameworks and native Cloud capabilities. Whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to increase autonomy and effectiveness.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll lead a group of engineers to design, develop and integrate software features to achieve their goals. Working within a Lab Feature Team alongside Product Owner and Quality Engineers to achieve business and technology outcomes whilst retaining a deep focus on service.

Job Description

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Salary: £90,440-£106,400

Location(s): Newport

Hours: Full-time - 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

Where You'll Make a Difference:

You should feel excited by the prospect of making lasting positive impact through:

• Leading a team via fostering collaboration, maintaining a positive team culture, and ensuring that the team delivers high-quality software products that meet the needs of the users and stakeholders. Strengthening the team by coaching, developing and mentoring engineers on how to achieve their team, technical and personal goals. Attracting new talent into the team, managing retentions risks within the team, and by expanding your own skills – promoting a true Learning Culture by your own actions
• Aligning team goals with the needs of the broader lab, platform and group
• Collaborating with the Product Owner, Customer Journey Manager, Lead Quality Engineer and Business SMEs to deliver features on the product roadmaps, manage down technical debt, maintain the health of production instances and to create the space to develop the skills needed by the target technology architecture
• Engineer solutions to be reliable, scalable, performant, accessible, and secure through adequate solution design, utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns. Engage the Solution Architecture and Technical Communities where needed to drive solution reuse, avoid complexity and creation of point solutions
• Seeking to adopt the groups tooling capabilities as these mature to access development practice gains through standardised automation in relation to pace, quality and safety
• Seeking to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, foster collective responsibility of ceremonies, escalate impediments, accordingly, manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and to recognise successes
• Taking hands on ownership for unblocking technical challenges and forward look to prove out new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use within the team, lab or platform. Where needed, act as a Chapter Lead to drive cross platform strategies and solutions
• Collaborating 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. Champion the benefits of a single common framework over team specific practices
• Installing 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. Where it's not, ensure performing teams are equipped to succeed

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities. Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will take your personal and professional development seriously and provide opportunity to shape the financial services of the future.

We Are Looking For People Who Have:

To be considered for and successful in this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate the below:

• Experience in technical leadership which includes leading a cross-functional teams of 6 to 8 engineers per team to deliver high quality applications at scale.
• Proficiency in a modern object orientated language, JavaScript and Java.
• Deep understanding of the server-side or client-side application stack both breadth and depth in building APIs or Web Applications, using Node.js, Spring Boot or React.js frameworks and applying SOLID, RESTful principles or package management with database interactions (Structured and unstructured).
• Experience in designing, developing and testing complex systems in and agile context (utilising orchestration automate), with strong architectural thinking and with an ability to break down ambiguous problems.
• Experience working on public cloud environments e.g. Google GCP, MS Azure, Amazon AWS.
• Experience working across a team to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contributing to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitments.

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more! Join our journey! Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities. Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together. As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Crown Dependencies are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in the Crown Dependencies would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring-Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles.

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.