JOB TITLE: Critical Business Recovery Lead SALARY: £92,701 - £109,060 LOCATION(S): Manchester 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 Why Lloyds Banking Group 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 the Opportunity We're looking for a dynamic, forward‑thinking Critical Business Recovery Engineering lead to drive the engineering function responsible for safeguarding the Group's most critical infrastructure and recovery capabilities. You will manage the team that supports and evolves the platforms enabling Lloyds Banking Group to maintain continuity during disruption-ensuring millions of customers remain protected even in crisis situations. This role provides a rare opportunity to shape strategic resilience capabilities at Group scale and lead a highly specialised technical team central to operational stability. What You'll Be Doing You will lead a team whose responsibilities today include: Supporting and enhancing critical safeguarding and recovery infrastructure, ensuring the platform delivers operational excellence and remains future‑ready. Owning and driving incident, problem and change portfolio management, including leading coordination, root‑cause analysis, and accelerating time‑to‑recovery for critical services. Sponsor major investment initiatives, ensuring controlled delivery, quality outcomes and long‑term sustainability. Own the technology roadmap for CyberVault and critical business recovery, aligning technology direction with the Group's operational resilience strategy. Shape the engineering operating model, embedding secure‑by‑design practices, high‑quality controls, and architectural alignment across services. Coaching and developing engineers, building capability through mentoring and knowledge‑sharing. Develop and lead a high‑performing team, creating an inclusive culture that encourages innovation, continuous learning and engineering excellence. Managing partner and third‑party engagements to deliver change and feed enhancements into platform roadmaps. Championing process improvement and automation, continuously maturing engineering practices and team effectiveness. About You You'll bring: Leadership experience in infrastructure, recovery platforms, cyber‑resilience, or similar secure environments. A strong understanding of backup, safeguarding, recovery disciplines and critical business services. Proven experience building, coaching and uplifting technical teams. The ability to translate technical risk and complexity into clear business language. Excellent stakeholder skills, especially in pressured or incident environments. A passion for driving engineering excellence, automation and continuous improvement. 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 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 This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .