Engineering Lead Bristol, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Bristol, England
85255 - 155465 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Monday 25 September 2023
Salary Range
£85,255 - £155,465Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
Engineering LeadLloyds Banking Group, Consumer Services & Engagement Platform
Location: Bristol based with flexibility to work from home 3 days per week and 2 days in the Bristol office.
Lloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We are revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods. Come. Join us. Be part of building the Bank of the Future!
LBG Labs:
Lloyds Banking Group are transforming the way we do Engineering. We’ve created “Platforms” and we're building multi-functional, co-located teams giving them freedom to bring technology to the forefront of our business. This will help us create new, and improve existing, products and services to help us really make a difference to our customers.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead
SALARY: £85,255.00 - £110,300.00 GBP
LOCATION(S): Bristol
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Bristol office site
About this opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Engagement Lab for an Engineering Lead within the Consumer Services & Engagement Platform.
The aim is to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring, and supporting their engineering teams.
They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high-quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. They will be an advocate for Engineering best practices, providing a voice to Engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team.
This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model.
Here’s where you’ll make a difference:
What follows is what you might find yourself doing as an Engineering Lead on a day-to-day basis, but your role can be flexible depending on the team's needs, and your own aspirations. Our goal is to help you develop in a way that fulfils you and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.
- Build efficient, reusable, scalable and secure systems, and abstractions.
- Identify software systems improvements and implement best in class methodologies to produce quality software.
- Collaborate with the product & design team to iterate the design function and implement the products.
- 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-thinking and user-experience led design approach.
About You:
- You're passionate about technology and its application to real-world problems, such as software automation and delivery and you'll bring the right mind-set to the role.
- You’re passionate about building a great Engineering culture around you.
- You can identify and evaluate complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.
- Sound experience in using and adopting a wide range of engineering practices and tools across the full software development lifecycle.
- Passionate about continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automation
About us
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…
What you’ll need –
We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge — it's what makes you amazing!
As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated experience of:
- An understanding of the full web application stack, deep and broad knowledge, with focus on Back-end API skill set.
- Significant exposure to public cloud & modern web technologies, especially; Java, Spring Boot, Web frameworks, Golang and microservices.
- Leadership experience of Engineering teams through line management, coaching & mentoring of developers
- Familiar with an enterprise environment with automated build/test/release processes, source code management (Git) and change-management (JIRA)
And any experience of these would be useful.
- Experience of GCP technologies like GKE, Spanner, BigQuery and Apigee.
- Experience with streaming applications utilising Kafka.
- Creating and leading frameworks in a modular codebase and familiarity with Backend development.
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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
- 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.
