Lead Infrastructure Engineer (77006)

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team.

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 are 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 Infrastructure Engineering Lead, you'll be leading a group of engineers to design, develop and integrate software features to achieve their goals.

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

• Collaboration with the Product Owner, Lead Quality Engineer and SMEs to deliver infrastructure 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.
• Bringing consideration and confidence to complex infrastructure solution decisions, ensuring alignment with industry practices and group technology policies to ensure solutions are engineered to be reliable, scalable, performant, accessible, and secure.
• Taking 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.
• Seeking to improve our understanding of 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.
• Collaborate with Business 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 through the creation and execution of strategies to implement effective security controls to ensure compliance with policies and standards, protecting against misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.
• 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.

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need:

• Extensive practical experience in overseeing engineering teams to develop infrastructure solutions that drive business outcomes. Skilled in anticipating issues, challenges, and opportunities, with a proven track record in managing large-scale, complex infrastructure upgrades to ensure minimal disruption and optimal performance.
• Exposure to multiple database technologies, including open-source and proprietary technologies, with proficiency in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL Server environments being beneficial.
• A deep passion for platform engineering, with a keen interest in evaluating existing deployments to determine and implement the most effective hosting strategies.
• Experience of leading an engineering team in a scaled context. Managing risk, meeting security standards, and prioritising the need to maintain and protect service versus the need to transform capabilities and experiences.
• Practical experience of leading and empowering teams using agile methods that contributes towards teams being able to release value early and often.
• A natural inquisitiveness to all facet's technology and consideration as to how these can be applied to deliver improvements in customer journeys. With evidence of continuous learning, shown in usage of frameworks, practices and how they embed in an agile construct.
• Work effectively within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contribute to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitments.
• Passionate about great engineering talent. Seeking to elevate and enable by utilising training programmes, targeted external recruitment, and leverage of early years programmes.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

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. 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.