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Engineering Lead

Leeds
4 months ago
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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

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.

About this opportunity

In the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime. This role is within Intelligent Tech, utilising AI & Machine Learning to deliver innovative solutions, supporting our customer facing colleagues in our fight against economic crime, as a force for good. Our aim is to use technology to help humans be more human.

We’re looking to recruit an Engineering Lead to to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams.

You will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. You’ll be an advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues.

What will I be doing?

Develops and/or delivers budget plans for own area with guidance from senior colleagues.

Meets the needs of significant customers related to complex, often customised products and services and/or manages a customer advisor department over a significant area.

Takes responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department, while informally coaching and mentoring others throughout the organisation and investing in own personal development.

Identifies shortcomings, then suggests and implements improvements to existing business practices, while developing and delivering projects or a workstream within the organisation's change management programme with guidance from senior colleagues.

Provides input into the development of IT Security policies, develops underlying procedures and monitors their implementation for area of responsibility within the organisation.

Manages the development and/or operation of knowledge management system with guidance from senior colleagues.

Develops and/or delivers a plan for a specific area of responsibility by managing others.

Sets longer term objectives and takes responsibility for implementing and coordinating performance management systems for a substantial department within the organisation.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

Experience leading a feature team working on Public Cloud (preferably Google Cloud Platform).

Hands-on technical experience building microservices, through the route to live in a Public Cloud environment.

Managing team dynamics, ensuring effective communication, and driving the team towards project goals.

Track record of mentoring and guiding team members, managing project timelines, and delivering high-quality software solutions.

Extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying microservices in a public cloud environment.

Proficiency in tools and technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

What will be desirable:

Experience working with Machine Learning and AI tools.

Hands-on experience of building machine learning models, particularly with products such as Vertex AI (or equivalent offering in alternative public clouds).

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 underrepresented 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

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. 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

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