Engineering Lead

Job Description

End Date Tuesday 15 November 2022 Salary Range £70,784 - £88,480 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary Aim to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high qualitysoftware and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. They will be an advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams,identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deepdomain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a player-coach model. Job DescriptionOur MissionIn the Payments Services Platform, our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely. The Payments Services Platform sits withinBusiness & Commercial Banking and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.About the roleWe believe that people dont always fit neatly into roles, and we value everyones individual skills, experience, and knowledgeits what makes you unique! Were looking to recruit an Engineering Lead who will design solutions and guide our colleaguesfrom multidisciplinary teams in our Domestic Payments Lab, to create the best outcomes for our 30 million customers. Youll be empowered to support the design and development of solutions that face into the constantly evolving needs of our customers and collaboratewith others to make them a reality.Heres how youll make a difference: Form the quorum of our design and decision forum, and support colleagues with advice based on your expertise Develop technical strategies to transform and modernise our lab Identify and establish relationships with senior leaders to influence and enable the implementation of your strategies Supporting the management of key stakeholders in the business, and also 3rd parties we partner with Were moving to utilise private and public cloud so youll be heavily involved in our move for this area of the business Oversee multiple feature teams that must define and drive their own solutions and assist in daily delivery activity and defend your recommendations at senior forums Educate both technical and non-technical colleagues about DevOps topics and articulate reasoning behind key technical decisionsWhat we need from you: Experience within a senior management role in an Engineering function, ideally a background within software development. Demonstrable team leading and LM skills working within an agile delivery cadence Strong Software Engineering background and deep knowledge of agile development practices as well as end to end technical solution design across the entire software development life-cycle from inception, through build to production Have a history of technical leadership within a solution architecture domain and have previously delivered microservices to production Able to decipher and analyze business and technical requirements to provide end to end design and workable solution options (ones that developers/engineers can take forward) Ability to clearly articulate designs and design options to varying stakeholders as well as providing direction and support to various IT teams throughout a project lifecycle ensuring approved design is implemented as designed Previous experience of working within a larger team of architects at programme level as well as being able to work alone on single work packages Ability to generate end to end design artefacts that adhere to architectural and quality standards and policies which meet business, application, infrastructure and data requirementsThere are also desirable skills which would be advantageous if you had them, but please still apply if you dont! Appreciation and acknowledgement of the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience and supportability. Exposure to modern web development technologies (HTML5/JavaScript, caching) and approaches (pragmatic view on Single Page / Multi-Page Applications, Web Components) Can think outside of the box in delivering its strategic objectives rather than just responding to a pre-defined request Exposure to delivering services through Continuous Delivery. Exposure to UK and International Payment schemes as well as ISO20022 enablementWhats in it for youWhatever your aspirations, you can expect excellent benefits, personal development, and a career thats enriching and full of opportunity.We promote an inclusive and diverse environment - it is one of the many things our colleagues love about working with us! As part of this we encourage colleagues to be flexible in their ways of workingincluding where and when you workso you can balanceyour personal commitments with the needs of the business.Wed also like to reassure applicants that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.So, are you looking for a rewarding, exciting and stretching role in which you can contribute to our purpose of helping Britain prosper and make a difference to customers, businesses, and communitiesIf so, apply today and join our inclusive, purpose-led team that celebrates diversity. At Lloyds Banking Group, were driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us youll have a key role to pla