Engineering Lead

Job Title: Engineering Lead   
Salary: £90,440 - £106,400  
Location: Edinburgh  
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 Edinburgh Office.  

About us   

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 this opportunity  

Become a part of Commercial Lending for Lloyds Banking Group and seize a unique chance to influence the future of digital banking. Our mission to build a bank of the future is driven by our extensive transformation programme. This role offers you the opportunity to work on ambitious projects within our Commercial Lending Platform, focusing on delivering exceptional digital journeys for our clients. If you're passionate about customer success, innovation, and leading transformative technology initiatives, this is the perfect opportunity for you. 

Help us enhance customer experiences for our Asset Finance clients. You'll play a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and feature-packed software solutions. Commercial Banking division has a rich heritage of supporting businesses and the economic prosperity of the nation, and you can make a real impact in how this is done. 
 

What you’ll do  

As an Engineering Lead, you'll be tasked with a variety of responsibilities that are crucial to our success. This is a senior leadership level role and will blend both technical expertise with a great passion for coaching and developing people, including advocating team wellbeing. 

• Lead and mentor a multi-skilled team to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions to support business goals. 

• Collaborate with feature teams and third parties to identify and implement creative solutions that align with business objectives. 

• Use agile tools, methodologies and data to monitor progress, addressing any issues promptly to ensure timely delivery. Identify and mitigate risks to ensure successful implementations to live. 

• Develop and document processes to improve engineering efficiency and service quality. 

• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives, fostering an environment of learning and growth within the team. 

• Supervise the maintenance and enhancement of service infrastructure, ensuring its reliability and efficiency. 

• Management of Third Party Suppliers to ensure solutions are performant, secure and resilient, and meet bank objectives and client needs. 

• Monitor and analyse service performance metrics to continually improve our offerings. 

• Accept 24*7 accountability and ownership to support availability, currency and performance. 

• Ensure that all engineering activities align with industry standards and regulations. 

What you’ll need  

• Proven experience in a leadership role within engineering, with a track record of mentoring and developing talent. 

• Breadth of technical understanding across software development and architecture, service operations, DevOps, and cloud. 

• Experience of agile development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment, test automation and the E2E software development lifecycle. 

• Strong communication skills, dynamic and adaptable, with the ability to facilitate efficient and effective decision-making. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively collaborate with a diverse range of collaborators. 

• Experience of managing Third Party Suppliers in the context of providing software solutions, including the configuration and testing of such products. 

• Exceptional problem-solving skills with a proactive and collaborative approach to finding solutions, and the ability to think strategically. 

• Strong collaborator, capable of building and sustaining relationships at all levels. 

• It would be great if you have experience of Lending in a Commercial context, but it's not essential. 

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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.  

We're 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