End Date
Wednesday 06 November 2024
Salary Range
£100,657 - £118,420
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead – Payments Services Platform
SALARY: £100,657 - £118,420
LOCATION(S): London
HOURS: [Full-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London office.
About this opportunity…
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Payments Platform for an Engineering Lead – Edinburgh/London - Payments (IP UK Lab) Our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely. Your role will be instrumental in driving the engineering excellence, embedding agile, DevOps and supportive high performing culture across the lab.
Your primary focus will be prioritising and delivering key changes across a completely modern technology stack and supporting a service that is critical for our customers, business and the wider UK economic infrastructure. Your responsibilities will also include the growth and development of our people, attracting and retaining talent and of the overall technical excellence of engineering, architecture and DevOps skills within the lab. As an Engineering Lead in our Instant Payments lab, you will work in a highly collaborative lab to build, support and improve our faster payments journey within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality, drive up value and help reduce downtime across our solutions.
About us…
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…
What you’ll do…
You’ll form part of the senior management team, managing the engineers in your teams and taking responsibility for their learning and development. Engineers will be multi-disciplinary including software engineers, quality engineers, solution engineers / architects and DevOps to name a few. Through your team you’ll aim to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually coaching, motivating, mentoring, and supporting the team.
Example of some specific activities might include…
Establish and lead our design and decision-making forums, providing expert guidance to colleagues based on your extensive knowledge.
Build and nurture relationships with senior leaders to effectively influence and bring visionary strategies to life across the organization.
Oversee the management of key stakeholders within the business and maintain productive partnerships with external collaborators.
Harness the power of both private and public cloud technologies, pushing the boundaries of what's possible and enhancing our technical capabilities.
Lead and mentor multiple feature teams, empowering them to own and deliver innovative solutions. You'll play a pivotal role in their daily success and advocate for their work at the highest levels of the company.
Create and implement technical strategies aimed at transforming and modernizing our lab infrastructure.
Educate both technical and non-technical colleagues about DevOps topics and articulate reasoning behind key technical decisions.
What you’ll need…
We like people who come from diverse backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered we’ll need to see evidence of the following in your CV’s.
Experience within a senior management role in an Engineering function, ideally a background within software development.
Demonstrable leadership and line management skills working within an agile delivery cadence.
Architecture and Engineering knowledge esp. on Java, spring boot, Kafka, and Cloud.
Technical knowledge of microservices development.
A broad ranging general level of technical knowledge.
In addition, any of the below, would also be beneficial but is not mandatory so please submit your application even if you don’t have this experience…
Experience in the Payments Domain / Financial Services in general.
Exposure to private or public cloud.
Understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration tooling.
About working for us…
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.
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.
