Lab Engineering Lead

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Lab Engineering Lead

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £121,023 - £142,380

LOCATION: Manchester

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 one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Are you ready to join our Transport Platform Leadership team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation?

In pursuit of our mission, we’re on a journey to transform our core technology architecture and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. We’re investing heavily in simplifying and modernising our technology architecture by developing new digital journeys, enabled by microservices, and demonstrating a new data ecosystem. All using modern frameworks and native Cloud capabilities. Whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to increase autonomy and effectiveness.

As a Lab Engineering Lead, you’ll be accountable for all facets of engineering (across both build and support) for your Lab, working alongside the Lab Product Owner to rub a product and engineering organisation that drives forward different business outcomes.

What will I be doing?

• Leading the engineering strategy for your Lab across both immediate and long-term horizons; building senior business and technology partners advocacy in this vision. Considering the strategic commitments, resilience challenges, technology risks, currency needs and regulatory expectations that need to be delivered.

• Partnering with Product & Architecture counterparts to allow teams to operate with focus through effective prioritisation, leaning-in to overcome impediments, by bringing horizon to roadmaps through better understanding of the emerging opportunities with corresponding technology choices identified and to manage down technical debt.

• Coordinating the engineering execution of this strategy through the feature teams within your Lab, and more widely across the Transport Platform and wider Bank. Proactively identifying engineering challenges and opportunities to release early value or de-risk deliveries.

• Ensuring that there remains a critical focus upon service and resilience for the applications that are owned by your Lab, considering immediate and future requirements and risks.

• Developing the leadership team within the Lab, by role modelling Group Values and expectations, and holding them to account for clear individual objectives. To grow the people within your Lab and create a true learning culture where team members can grow and develop.

• Embedding Agile and DevOps practices and constantly reviewing opportunities to improve the flow of work. Providing the business and technical capabilities that enable and empower feature teams to design, build and release change themselves locally through smaller more frequent releases.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Extensive practical experience in providing engineering oversight to develop strategic solutions to long-term business needs by anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities. Across all facets of engineering (including devops, data, automation, hosting, language, platform choices etc), and with experience of working in a complex systems architecture comprised of modern and legacy solutions, and inhouse and product solutions.

• Deep experience of running a modern engineering capability. Managing risk, meeting security standards, and prioritising the need to maintain and protect service versus the need to transform capabilities and experiences.

• Practical experience of leading and empowering teams using agile methods that contributes towards teams being able to release value early and often.

• A natural inquisitiveness to all facet’s technology and consideration as to how these can be applied to deliver improvements in customer journeys.

• Authentically inspire and engage all levels of your Lab and embed a true culture of collaboration and ownership within the team. To build a build high performing cross disciplinary engineering capability where people take initiative and deliver on commitments.

• Passionate about great engineering talent. Seeking to elevate and enable by utilising training programmes, targeted external recruitment, and leverage of early years programmes.

• An ability to communicate complex messages and influence senior partners in relation to progress, preferences and challenges.

• Experience of leading teams of in excess of 100 engineers and managing budgets more than £10m. Applying a commercial lens to establish long lived engagements with third parties which balance trust and challenge.

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

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

• 30 days’ holiday, 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.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're 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 you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're 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 we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.