Senior Software Engineering Manager

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineering Manager

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Halifax, Manchester or Edinburgh

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 locations listed above.

About this opportunity

Lloyds Banking Group is striving to be both the best bank for customers as well as the bank of the future. This enables us to meet the needs of our customers and help Britain prosper.

A key driver to realising this is our shift towards ITIL aligned Toolsets and Operations that underpin the Bank. Our Batch Scheduling and Services teams have accountability for the end-to-end lifecycle of the product. This includes installation, configuration and administration of all Batch Schedules and Batch Tooling within the bank, predominantly the IBM IWS for Distributed, and IWS for Z\os technologies.

We're endlessly curious about customer outcomes and problems - 'Build It, Run It, Fix it'.

We're searching for a dynamic, innovative and self-motivated individual to drive the Batch product forwards by leading the Agile Feature Teams, proficiently navigating and leading the IWS suite and its operations.

You will have an opportunity to shape and improve product processes and standards. You'll also be a key contributor to the broader scope and work of the Technology Tools Lab. We’d be looking for you to have a strong IT Service background and with a track record of delivering an ITIL aligned Service of similar complexity.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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 skills you’ll need:

• A bold and ambitious colleague, you'll drive the product forwards, growing our automation and self-serve capabilities

• You’ll have Industry expertise of IBM Batch products

• Demonstrating an excellent understanding of ITIL, you lead teams that build, run, and maintain the LBG Batch Infrastructure and Service Operations

• You’ll develop strategies for transformation, and are proficient with Agile methodologies and their application

• With your excellent risk management skills, you’ll proactively handle your technology risk portfolio, and work diligently to mitigate and avoid adverse impact to our customers

• You’ll be a trusted business partner to our internal customers and influence 3rd Party Suppliers to help us improve efficiency

• You’ll have experience of leading and developing people, setting a higher standard continuously on the performance and skills of a geographically dispersed team

• You'll handle internal and external audits and ensure compliance with Sox requirements

• You’ll lead the development and maintenance of the strategic roadmap and supporting policies for the product, working collaboratively with key players to turn these strategies into policy

• As a core member of the Lab Leadership Team, you’ll make valuable contributions in assisting in contractual agreements and the delivery of new technical solutions to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of our toolsets

• As a people person, you’ll have a highly developed ability to operate/interact with senior managers within the lab, platform and wider business CIOs

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

• Up to 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.