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 owns 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 too. We'll 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 languages, 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, SpringBoot or 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 in 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.