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JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineering Lead
SALARY: £144,424 - £169,910 in London, £121,023 - £142,380 outside of London
LOCATION(S): London, Leeds or Manchester with some travel required within the UK.
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 office location.
About this opportunity
The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations.
Your role as an Engineering Lead is to be a visionary leader who works collaboratively with the Product Owner and the others to create an organisation that provides the best value propositions to our customers. You will Lead a team of 75-150 engineers, peered with a Lead Product Owner, and reporting to the Cloud Platform Director.
Given the largest volume of work is inbound work delivered to support the initiatives for other platforms and business areas you’ll need to be a phenomenal collaborator with a passion for leading great collaboration work. You’ll work together leading the teams with your Lead Product Owner who will define the What & Why the team deliver, and you working out the How including not just the engineering solutions but how we implement changes to our work, e.g. Agile methods and instrumentation.
You’ll encourage teams to actively take part in Guilds, Inner Source activities and other forums and meet-ups through which our engineering methods and practices can be shared and developed so that new insights and ideas can be brought back to the lab to further improve engineering effectiveness. You’ll form part of a broader engineering leadership team across the Platform to support your ongoing development and be involved in initiatives outside the Platform.
You’ll have responsibility for hiring and growing existing engineering talent across the engineering teams, including across subject areas such as Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering and DevOps, enabling teams to reach their full potential.
You’ll enable 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 foster a systems-thinking and user-experience led design approach.
The ideal candidate will inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust.
Key responsibilities
Delivery of Value:
A visionary leader who works with the Product Owner, Architects and teams to build an inspiring services engineering strategy that provides inspiration and purpose.
Responsible for creating amazing capabilities for our customers using technical expertise to deliver change through modern engineering tools and methods and by inspiring teams to embrace agile principles, encourage innovation, and foster a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” approach.
An inspiring communicator who can work with all levels of the organisation, energising teams and ensuring communication is flowing affectively.
Work with the team and the wider Engineering Community to ensure that platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices, ensuring a collaborative environment to share ideas and work through complex problems.
Compliance and Governance
Accountable for ensuring that all Engineering work in is carried out in line with the Bank standards including all decision making.
Accountable for maximising the safe delegation of authority and empowerment to the team in line with the above and in line with the core principle of Transformation
Creating and Protecting the Culture
Look out and hire new talent with a focus on building amazing teams with a collaborative and inclusive culture where teams are empowered to test and learn.
Able to nurture teams, support them through a culture of openness and trust, and to make teams the best they can be.
You have a strong passion and technical understanding of 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 to contribute towards inner-source activities and attend Meetups.
Champion the principles & aims of Transformation to guide and support teams through the Transformational change.
Work with Agile Coaches to create opportunities for learning and growth for all.
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 Inner Source delivery methods.
A highly experienced member of our wider Engineering team, and we expect the Engineering Lead to drive exemplary software engineering practices as well as mentor and nurture the talent at all levels of their software engineering community.
Why Lloyds Banking Group:
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
What you’ll need
As a leader:
We are modernising with cloud, building a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers: easy, modern and green for developers. Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
We are particularly interested in people with experience in one of more of the following: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Terraform, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, Apigee, Azure API Management, Harness, Backstage, VMware Aria Suite, Kafka and modern middleware or integration products.
Vision and the ability to provide an engineering strategy and roadmap
Ability to listen and reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion but you are not strongly tied to it
Champion an environment where teams are empowered to be autonomous and self-sufficient, and you provide purpose, guidance and support where needed
Ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary, internal and external geographically distributed teams across the product lifecycle
Curious to learn and develop yourself with industry best practice methods and tooling, along with the tools used by their engineering teams, to make valuable contributions in validating team engineering work and decisions
Ability to motivate, to challenge the status quo and you have an appreciation and understanding of first principles thinking
As an Engineer:
Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners
Extensive software engineering background with one or more programming languages
Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end- to- end delivery of software products
Significant experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team
Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve
Be technology agnostic and willing to adapt approach in pursuit of the best solution
Be anchored to core engineering area and carry the ability to test, learn and mentor others
Understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt
Understand the benefits of measuring change and work with teams to provide reassurance and mitigate behavioural change
Understand agile and the relationship between agile definitions and automated delivery
Be passionate about automating everything
Be industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team
About working for us:
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 under-represented 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.
We're changing financial services, and we want you to join us.
We're the UK's largest financial services group, with our 25 million customers and a history stretching back more than 300 years.
We pride ourselves on creating a great environment for colleagues to work in, one which is inclusive and driven by our values. This is critical to our business success as we know that colleagues who can show up to work as themselves are those that bring their best.
We're an inclusive and open organisation with a scale that creates a vast range of roles and opportunities. We offer a plenty of options for continual personal growth and you'll be part of a culture which embraces diversity of talent, creativity, skills and thinking among our teams.
Workplace Initiatives
Opportunities for people returning from a career break |
Yes our Returner opportunities offer a career path to candidates with a 18 month year break in their career’ with ‘Yes, our Returner opportunities are aimed at candidates who have had a 18 month or more career break |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
20 weeks based on full pay + 19 weeks at the current statutory maternity pay rate |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
No qualifying service period |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
6 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
No qualifying service period |
Gender pay gap reporting information (insert year) (UK): 2022 |
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Average pay gap: |
30.5% |
Median pay gap: |
33.6% |
Average bonus gap: |
62.5% |
Median bonus gap: |
69.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
Yes |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
Yes |
Flexible Working Policy
We take pride in being a leader in flexibility and offer a wide array of flexible working options for different circumstances. How you work and the options available will depend on the role you're in, but we aim to offer the flexibility needed by everyone.
For many of our office-based roles, we work in hybrid ways, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. Dependent on your role, other flexible options may be available, such as part-time or compressed hours, complete home-working or job share. ‘Find out how flexible working can work for you’.
Flexible Working Policy
We take pride in being a leader in flexibility and offer a wide array of flexible working options for different circumstances. How you work and the options available will depend on the role you're in, but we aim to offer the flexibility needed by everyone.
For many of our office-based roles, we work in hybrid ways, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. Dependent on your role, other flexible options may be available, such as part-time or compressed hours, complete home-working or job share. ‘Find out how flexible working can work for you’.
Returner opportunities
Returning to work after time away can be challenging. That’s why we offer Returner opportunities that are designed to assist people returning to work after a career break of 18 months or more and our roles are permanent from the day one. Whether you’ve been away from work due to parenthood, illness, or even travel, we’re looking forward to hearing from you as we continue to grow!
What can you expect?
Coming back into the world of work after a career break can be really daunting – and we therefore know how important flexibility is. We’re very aware that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, so will happily have the discussion about different working patterns with you.
These roles have been created with your career break in mind, making sure we are there to support you in your transition back to work. You will be brought in on a permanent contract and given meaningful work from day one. Plus, you’ll be paired with a buddy or mentor from your team to help guide you along the way. You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Returners Community and have the chance to create a personal development plan that works for you.
Who are we looking for?
While banking or professional services experience is desirable, especially for some roles, we care more about the transferable skills you can bring to our business.
Testimonials
I had a good network of colleagues already working for Lloyds Banking Group, who were all very passionate about their roles - so it felt the right choice for me and gave me the courage to apply for a Business Analyst role through the Returners. It was a seamless recruitment experience and I was offered a role in the work I wanted to do.
Olufunke Oladinni, Business Analyst
I love being a Project Manager, and I can’t recommend the Lloyds Banking Group Returners enough. It’ll springboard your career, giving you the best opportunity to relaunch yourself and maximise your full potential.
Justin Pierce, Project Manager