Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead

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 an Engineering Lead, you'll be accountable for all facets of engineering (across both build and support) across multiple engineering teams within the Lab, working alongside the Product Owner to achieve business and technology outcomes whilst retaining a deep focus on service.

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

• Leading teams 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.
• Collaborating with the Product Owner and Customer Journey Manager 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.
• Engineering solutions to be reliable, scalable, performant, and secure through adequate solution design, utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns. Engage Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects 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 and to manage external dependencies adequately.
• Lean-in and take a 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.
• Collaborate with Agility Leads to advance the effectiveness of the team’s 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.
• Install active application custodianship to manage incidents, compliance findings, risks and running costs where it is the right answer for the team to maintain production instances. Where it is not, ensure performing teams are equipped to succeed.
• Working to build a strong team by coaching, developing and mentoring engineers on how to achieve their team, technical and personal goals. Modelling Group Values and accessing frameworks, learning collateral and early careers programmes to build rounded engineering capability within your teams.
• Developing the leadership team within the Lab, by role modelling Group Values and expectations, and holding them to account for clear individual objectives. To grow the people within your Lab and create a true learning culture where team members can grow and develop. In doing so, accessing Group Wide Frameworks, learning collateral and early careers programmes to build a rounded engineering capability within your Lab.
• Embedding Agile and DevOps practices and constantly reviewing opportunities to improve the flow of work. Providing the business and technical capabilities that enable and empower feature teams to design, build and release change themselves locally through smaller more frequent releases.
• Ensuring that costs are carefully managed against available budgets and that opportunities to improve the efficiency of spend are constantly reviewed. Supply critical technical feedback to the investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

At Lloyds Banking Group, we are 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 are 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 are growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will to. We will take your personal and professional development seriously and provide opportunity to shape the financial services of the future.

We are also offering 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! 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.