Engineering Lead: API Lab

JOB TITLE: Head of Engineering/Engineering Lead – API lab

SALARY: £90,500pa to £144,000pa plus extensive benefits

LOCATION: London or Edinburgh

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 our London or Edinburgh offices.

About the opportunity

 We’re looking for a senior level technical expert and leader with vision. We're looking for a curious person with a real passion for technology, a commitment to growth and development with experience of modern engineering methods and tooling.  Enhancing the engineering experience and increasing pace is core aspect of our strategy to deliver great outcomes to our customers, and enabling access to great APIs is at the heart of this. Working in the API & Digital Services Lab, you’ll take a leading role in enabling the Group’s ambition by enabling the bank to safely build, manage, discover and re-use APIs.  You’ll be responsible for running and transforming our on-premise API gateways, developing our API build acceleration and validation capability and improving the discoverability & management of APIs through our internal API Marketplace.
 

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 embracing collaborative, agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers and businesses. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!
 

What you'll be doing

As a platform, our purpose is to enable smarter API & System of Engagement led innovation tomorrow while ensuring resilient ​igital services today, and we do this by providing reusable API products, standards & services for our business platform customers.  In this role, you’ll be a technology leader, setting the vision and mobilising the necessary teams to ensure a successful delivery. Your focus will be on enhancing ways of working and the overall engineering experience. If you’re passionate about designing scalable and reusable solutions in complex systems and to unlock the pace of application and microservice development, we want you to join us.
 

Day to day you’ll:

• Drive the engineering vision, set engineering standards, and solve the most complex technical challenges.

• Lead the development of high-quality software products, ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance, security, and reliability.

• Influence the technical direction of the organisation, mentor engineering teams, and ensure the delivery of robust, scalable, secure and innovative solutions.

• Advise engineering teams and senior leadership.

• Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and other stakeholders to prioritise and deliver the engineering roadmap.

• Foster an engineering culture of experimentation, learning and continuous innovation.

• Shape and contribute to the overall technical strategy.

• Manage multiple change initiatives, including roadmaps, budgets, scheduling and resource assignment.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, continuously advancing the state of technology within the organisation.

About you

• Software Engineering - Possess a deep understanding of the software lifecycle, ensuring high standards in design, development, testing, and deployment.

• API Management Platforms – Demonstrable experience of implementing and operating top quadrant API Platforms such as API Connect, Apigee X, Azure APIM, Kong.

• End to end API design – demonstrable experience of managing and designing end to end API services (preferably REST). Understanding the intricacies and requirements associated with security , enterprise patterns and rate limiting.

• Cloud Platform - Familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS.

• Technology leadership - Capable of defining and maintaining engineering standards, aligning solutions with business objectives and architectural principles.

• Technology delivery - Provide technology leadership across technical components and complex cross-cutting deliveries spanning multiple platforms and business units.

In addition, any experience of these would be useful:

• API Gateway Transformation – Developing and executing against strategies to modernise and simplify API Management across a Hybrid Cloud.

• API marketplaces – developing and/or managing API marketplace platforms

• AI and APIs – Having a perspective as to the opportunities and applications of AI in improving the API platforms ecosystem.

• Leading and running enterprise-wide infrastructure platform upgrades and migrations to ensure a seamless transition and minimal disruption.

• Ability to define objectives and measure metrics to optimise run and change processes.

• Experience of DevOps Pipeline optimisation and developing embedded and dynamic controls.

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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? 

Join our journey.