Engineering Lead

Job Title:  Engineering Lead 
Salary: £90,440 – £106,400 
Location: Chester  
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 Chester 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 

Do you want to make a real difference? Lead a successful team who ensure Lloyds Banking Groups’ Customers in Financial Difficulty can access the tools and applications to help them become more financially resilient and improve their overall financial wellbeing? Are you a technology enthusiast with strong technical background? Do you seek to build a learning culture, developing others to become their best? Lloyds Banking Group is changing, and we need you to help us on that journey!  

Working within the Financial Wellbeing Platform you will play a pivotal role in the next stage of our transformation journey. The Platform's purpose is to create a leading experience to help our customers before, during and after financial difficulty. We aim to achieve this purpose through 

• Improving colleague experience by simplifying processes and modernising systems, 

• Creating tools to allow customers to better manage their day-to-day finances, and 

• Reduce costs through an increased focus on Automation, DevOps and Cloud technologies. 

Our aim is to create a forward-thinking engineering culture that supports the Customers in Financial Assistance business in delivering high quality, efficient and positive Lab outcomes for our customers. The role of the Lab Engineer is vital in ensuring that we deliver on our purpose. Leading by example, your primary focus will be on delivering change across multiple feature teams. Your responsibility will include the growth and development of our Engineers as well as setting the technical strategic direction for the Lab. 

What you’ll need  

This role is a leadership role that blends both deep domain and technical expertise with a passion for coaching and developing people.  

• Experience of the full web application stack, Back-end API integration, and Data Engineering is essential - core Java development skills would be ideal 

• Have a creative and pragmatic approach to problem solving 

• Able to describe complex situations to a multifaceted business and technology audience. 

• Experience using GCP Data products  

• A relentless focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles 

• Technical leadership experience including establishing code quality standards, best practices and leading technical design and implementation 

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance 

• 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?