Lead Software Engineer - Grade F - NPA Lab New Payments Architecture Payment Services platform

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End Date Monday 23 January 2023 Salary Range £70,784 - £132,720 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Flexible / Variable Hours, Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary Are you an experienced Engineering Lead looking for a once in a career opportunity to transform a critical application landscape, work with cutting edge technology, event driven architecture, building a cloud hosted greenfield Payments platform, integratingwith FinTech SaaS services and building out new a data platform whilst integrating with one of the UKs leading Banks Job DescriptionEngineering Lead - Edinburgh - Payments (New Payments Architecture)Were also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. Wed warmly welcome your application if you identify with any of these groups.Reasonable adjustments can be also accommodated in our Recruitment processes, just let us know...Were simply committed to building an inclusive environment where colleagues can be themselves and be their best as a result!Offering flexible and hybrid working patterns (ideally 2 days on site) we believe that a healthy work/life balance is important, so tell us what might work for you...Where does the role sit and what will I developIn 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 within Business & Commercial Banking and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.Your role will be instrumental in driving the engineering and architecture while embedding an agile DevOps mentality across a number of feature teams.Leading by example, your primary focus will be on delivering change in the New Payments Architecture (NPA) lab. Your responsibilities, however, will stretch to the growth and development of our people, and of the overall engineering, architecture and DevOpsskills within the lab. The software you help deliver will focus on supporting our customers in the Faster Payments domain.Lloyds Banking Group are focused on building a diverse and equal opportunities company and your support will be required as you help build our teams.What would I focus on as an Engineering LeadYoull form part of the senior management team, focusing on line managing the staff in your teams and taking responsibility for their learning and development. Staff will be multi-disciplinary including software engineers, quality engineers, solution/architecturestaff and DevOps to name a few.Through your team youll aim to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting the team. We mainly use Java to develop in this area.Example of some specific activities might include:

• 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 build 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 youll 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 decisions

What do we need to see from applicantsWe like people who come from diverse backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered well need to see evidence of the following in your CVs;

• 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
• Architecture and Java Engineering knowledge (enough to advise / question your team, but this role is not hands on).
• Technical knowledge of Java Springboot & microservices development
• An understanding of Kafka
• A broad ranging general level of technical knowledge

There are also desirable skills which would be advantageous if you had them, but please apply if you dont! Experience in the Payments Domain / Financial Services in general, exposure to private or public cloud, and an understanding of Continuous Deliveryand Continuous Integration tooling.What will you get in returnOn top of our excellent salary & benefits packages, this will be a stimulating and exciting position with plenty of opportunities for career growth and development. Supported throughout you should be encouraged to take the initiative, establish relationshipsand make a positive difference to our customers, our colleagues and our communities.Together well make it possibleAt 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 play in shaping the financialservices of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means youll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.Were focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together were building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunityto make a real difference.