Chief Technology Office (CTO) Software Engineer / Developer Advocate London, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
London, England
61176 - 99411 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Thursday 30 March 2023
Salary Range
£61,176 - £99,411Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
Lloyds Banking Group
London, Leeds, Edinburgh – We’re happy with home working the majority of the time, however you’ll need to be in the office 1 to 2 days per week. There’s occasional travel for events and meetings funded by the bank.
Salary & Benefits: The base salary banding for this role is £71,577 to £79,530 in London and £61,911 to £68,790 outside of London plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
We also offer and support flexible working hours, agile working practices such as compressed hours, and flexible core hours. We’ll give you the flexibility to suit your lifestyle around where and when you work and ensure a good work-life balance. We’re open to discussing your needs early in the selection process.
Who are Lloyds Banking Group and where does this role sit?
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper.
The Chief Technology Office (CTO) oversee the overall technology strategy. The CTO Skills and Communities Team are a vibrant mix of techies, learning and development and community and comms professionals.
This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced engineer, techie or dev advocate to join the Engineering Skills Team in CTO building our Engineering Faculty. This is through hands on labs and challenges, learning interventions and social learning opportunities to developing engineers across the bank with skills for today and the future.
The team runs large events such as our Reboot hackathons and conferences, regular internal tech talks and Engineering Masterclasses. We deliver learning programmes such as our Modern Engineering Accelerator, Cloud Ready journey and Learning Pathways for engineering roles.
Perhaps you could help make it possible?
We’ll tailor the role to your experience, but activities you’ll be responsible for include things like;
- Drive the engineer learning experience to be simpler and better for all. By advocating for improvements to the Tech Academy and surrounding platforms and services.
- Inspire our engineering community to co-create innovative and immersive learning experiences. With an aspiration to widen our labs, challenges and hacks offering in 2023.
- Curate learning content to support engineers build and apply skills around our strategic tech, core languages, platforms, tools and techniques
- Connect with engineers to bring feedback from the community into the team. Using your engineering skills and knowledge to have credible peer to peer conversations.
- Help define our team developer relations strategy, working on our content strategy and supporting the delivery of impactful engineering events
- Work directly with People and Places, Skills and Community and wider CTO as a voice of engineers
What do we need to see from applicants?
- Experience as hands-on engineer (software, devops, sre, cloud, etc), developer advocate or similar role
- A solid technical background, experience working in delivery teams, and good understanding of software development processes.
- A love of learning and inspiring others to learn; be curious and engaged in technology inside and outside the bank.
- Curiosity to explore, challenge and question to learn and inform, and turn that into the development of strong, engineer led, products.
- Interest in nurturing mutually beneficial relationships between organisations and engineers.
- Passion and drive to deliver incremental change and improvement, bringing the team along on the journey.
What can I expect in return?
We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential! The roles allows you to work across our diverse tech platforms with everyone from new apprentices to tech platform leads to really build your knowledge and experience. Your role mission will be developed in line to your experience and strengths while giving plenty of opportunity to develop, learn and grow yourself – as a learning team we strongly value curiosity and personal development and give it time and focus.
As a new colleague to the team, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued.
We're also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process, just let us know.
Together we’ll make it possible!
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'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.
