Head of Engineering, Credit Run, Enterprise Risk

Job Description

End Date Sunday 30 October 2022 Salary Range £116,272 - £145,340 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 . Job DescriptionLocation: London; Edinburgh; or Halifax Salary & Benefits: £116,272 to £145,340 (depending on experience) base salary, plus annual discretionary bonus up to 40%, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plusbank holidays.WhoLloyds Banking Group is the UKs biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers and a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. Were in the middle of a £3bn investment into our People, Platforms and Data as part of our strategyto build the Bank of the Future and grow sustainably.Why Enterprise Risk PlatformThis is a time of growth for the platform. We are passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and skilled team of engineers. We are introducing new technologies as we move towards our target state with a cloud first (private and public)approach in our hosting strategy and to transform our systems from a monolith to a microservice based system whilst decommissioning our legacy services and systems.Collaboration is critical to the success of this role! As the Engineering Lead youll work collaboratively with the Lab Product Owner, other labs, technical teams, other platforms as well as other engineering leads with the platform. Youll work hand-in-handleading the Lab teams with the Credit Run Product Owner to:

• jointly assume the ownership, development, and accountability of Lab strategic and quarterly OKRs, and are incentivised against a balanced set of business and technology outcomes.
• Optimise, evolve, and deliver an efficient operating model.
• Support shaping of the backlog and prioritising outcomeswhich are essential to keep the solution / product in good health.
• Create an organisation that istruly data drivenand providing the best value propositions to our customers.
• Define the What and Why the team deliver, and how through a combination of engineering solutions and changes to our ways of working i.e. agile and instrumentation.

What youll get involved in:The Engineering Lead handles the successful delivery and maintenance of the core technology agenda within the Lab providing strategic direction and oversight of Credit Customer journeys. They will be responsible for the technical roadmap, management of technicaldebt and other technical demands. They are accountable for the technical solutions team that will design, build, or integrate, deploy, and run the system, particularly software, that supports the Credit business and operations, with a focus on resilience,low latency, reusability, accessibility by third parties and scalability.About the teams:We work flexibly and operate a hybrid working pattern. The teams are spread across 3 UK (United Kingdom) hubsLondon, Edinburgh and Halifax and a handful of locations in India. We have a team with varied strengths across subject areas such as SoftwareEngineering, DevOps, and Quality Engineering. As the Engineering lead you have responsibility for hiring and growing our existing engineering talent enabling teams and individuals to maximise their potential.Our core technologies are:

• LeMans (SAS)
• API platform using Java (ASM)
• Risk Data Warehouse (Oracle)
• OMDM (FICO)
• nCINO

We maintain and develop a couple of database systems ; SAS, DB2, and Oracle and various tooling for middleware management. For data and analytics our public cloud target is Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Labs scope includes building a customer systemof engagement out there.What you can bring to the role:The role will be suited to someone who combines leadership skills with strong technical experience and comes from an engineering background.As a leader, you:

• Enable a culture based on the fundamentals of psychological safety instilling confidence, authenticity and trust throughout your teams.
• Create a culture of learning and continuous improvement through a Fail Fast, Learn Faster mentality within teams to experiment and test new ways of engineering, to act as a change agent for engineering and team culture, and to cultivate a systems-thinkingand user-experience led design approach.
• Have a strong passion for and technical understanding of data content systems and can provide support, knowledge and mentoring to the teams. This includes helping teams to use the best engineering practices, tooling, and methods and to encourage them tocontribute towards inner-source activities and attend MeetUps.
• Encourage engineers to join Communities of Practice, Guilds and Working Groups to deliver peer-to-peer mentoring and joint engineering initiatives via coordinated sessions and InnerSource delivery methods.

As an Engineer, you:

Will have extensive software engineering background with one or more programming languages

Are technology agnostic and are willing to adapt approach in pursuit of the optimal solution

Understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt

Significant experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team as well as understanding the relationship between agile definitions and automated delivery

Understand the benefits of BDD & TDD and ensure engineers write upfront tests against team defined agile definitions and delivery stories

Automation of everything will be a priority Have proven understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experi