Lead Software Engineer - Climate Risk Lab Edinburgh
Job description
Lead Software Engineer - Climate Risk Lab (Enterprise Risk Platform) Salary: £85,255 - £100,300 Location: Edinburgh City Centre Hours: Full - time, Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About Lloyd Banking Group: If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. 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. About our team: Our aim is to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. You will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high-quality software. You will be an advocate for Engineering, 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. About the role: This is an outstanding opportunity for a passionate, pro-active individual to join the Climate Risk Lab as an Engineering Lead, within the Enterprise Risk Platform. Our purpose & vision is to support the Risk Division to build the next generation climate risk function to enable LBG to support the UK's transition to a low-carbon economy, through developing climate risk data, metrics and models, and providing thought leadership to drive the embedding of Climate Risk frameworks and methodologies to support compliance with SS3/ 19 and our regulatory commitments. We're trail blazing the use of new exciting technology as part of our strategic roadmap and the right person will lead and work in a cross-disciplinary team and act as advocate for technology standards & governance, providing a voice to software engineers within the teams. The practical things we need you to do: Lead a team of engineers delivering Climate Risk changes, on the as-is systems and the new strategic landscape. Around 20 engineers are working on this activity today, and we're looking to expand further. Own and lead the roadmap activity for Climate Risk solutions, working with Labs across the Enterprise Risk Platform (ERP) and Enterprise Architecture to design the strategic Climate Risk landscape and the delivery mechanism that delivers to this target architecture in agreed transition states. Support with planning, leading and coordinating the technical delivery, governance controls, planning of activities, communication and engagement across the business teams and lab working with Product Owners & business analysts Liaise with other engineering teams across LBG on Climate Risk deliveries Engage and oversee the technical aspects of 3rd party deliveries as part of Climate Risk deliveries Respond to individual and team objectives and invests in improving personal performance by growing own skills and capabilities, mentoring others when required. Strong problem-solving skills using a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and clearly set out the way forward. Show well-developed interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey key business information arising from sophisticated issues to non-technical people. Skills & experience that are essential for this role: Hands on experience working with Google Data Products (e.g. BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, AI Building Blocks, Cloud Data Fusion, GKE, GCS etc.) Experience in Spark (Scala/ Python/ Java) and data migration to cloud Experience of implementing modern, scalable data solutions using a range of new and emerging technologies from the Google Cloud Platform Experience with SQL and NoSQL modern data store Knowledge of Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes. Any experience of these would be really useful: Knowledge of Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Risk modelling or Reporting would be beneficial Knowledge of Climate Risk or Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) concepts Knowledge and experience of the technical aspects of the LBG Route to Live process Knowledge of both waterfall and agile development practices & tools Knowledge of DevOps techniques & implementation approaches in the delivery 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 If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team? Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more. Lloyds Banking Group
