Engineering Lead (Engineering Productivity)

JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead (Engineering Productivity)

SALARY: From £125,000 dependent on experience and location

LOCATION(S): London or Bristol

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 one of our office locations noted above

About this opportunity

The Engineering Platform team is on a mission to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group, a single platform consumed by every engineer and platform across the entire group. You'll be at the heart of one of the UK's biggest financial service technical transformations maximising the use of shared tools and technology across our entire organisation.

Our Engineering Productivity lab has a simple but important goal, to identify and remediate Engineer friction points to optimize the engineering experience for all our engineers in the group.

We'll need you to roll up your sleeves and be hands on, reviewing and writing code, defining APIs, building prototypes, doing design spikes and leading other engineers in with the team in designing and building our products.

Some of the activities you and your team will be doing

Technical vision and direction: You'll be instrumental in defining the technical vision, architecture, and execution of our productivity tools roadmap, focusing on measurement, analysis, and continuous improvement, looking industry wide to ensure we embrace the latest and greatest in emerging technology practices.

Product Development & Execution: You’ll lead a team of engineers to design, develop, and deploy high-quality engineering productivity and collaboration tools, ensuring scalability, reliability and security as they go.

Leadership and coaching, we'll be looking for you to:

• critique designs conducting technical architectures and code reviews

• ensuring optimum solutions, coaching and mentoring others as you go

• identifying areas for development

• ensuring there is a variety of complementary skills across the team.

It's important to us that you foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team role modelling our values & behaviours, helping those around you to grow and perform at their best.

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.

Experience you will be required to demonstrate

• Programming in several languages: Java, Python, Golang, JavaScript with ability to be hands on and create prototypes and MVP

• Delivery of complex software projects via software development methods, including Agile and DevOps.

• Delivering infrastructure as code-based solutions based on known languages (terraform, Pulumi, Ansible)

• Building and designing platforms and tools at scale on cloud platforms specifically GCP Data Analytics products.

• Version control systems (Git), working with CI/CD, DevOps approaches and a passion for automation

• Defining user journeys, architectures and APIs using different paradigms and technologies (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)

• Contributing to open-source projects related to engineering productivity would be ideal

Any experience of these would be useful

• Machine learning and AI for productivity optimization, statistical analysis and with building and maintaining internal platforms, tools and SDKS would be advantageous

• Familiarity with the Atlassian suite (Jira and Confluence)

• Harness.io and/or Github actions, or Kubernetes as both administrator and application developer is a benefit

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.

• Generous holiday allowance, 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.