Strategy and Engineering Lead Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
70784 - 88480 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Monday 13 February 2023
Salary Range
£70,784 - £88,480Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
We're building the bank of the future and need you to make it possible....
Job Description
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading bank with over 30m customers, and its biggest digital bank, with over 18 million active online customers. We’ve placed a bold transformation programme and a multi-channel approach to banking at the heart of our strategy to be the best bank for customers, backed by significant investment in our platforms and people over the next three years.
To achieve this it’s key that the underlying infrastructure is resilient, performant, secure, cost-effective and robust, and that’s where you come in …
As a Strategy & Engineering Lead within our Strategy & Infrastructure Change Delivery team, you’ll work collaboratively with our business application teams to deliver their Technology roadmap. A unique opportunity to shape this new role, representing strategic activities and an innovative engineering function in the Strategy & Infrastructure Change Delivery Leadership Team.
You’ll be leading the Infrastructure Design community function, proactively improving processes whilst aligning with broader strategies is at the forefront of your work. Consistently driving team capability to ensure infrastructure solutions are resilient, performant, and secure, ensuring quality is never compromised.
As part of the role, you’ll have the opportunity to influence design and governance processes within the bank; driving continuous improvements that streamline our processes, remove blockers, automate, and create efficiency – building the bank of the future. Together we'll make it possible!
The day to day
- Working in partnership across multiple platforms and functions, representing our team to understand, influence and communicate a clear strategic direction
- Provide Major programme initiation support, enabling new customer requirements with customers, connectors and Security Engineering for very large scale & complex deliveries
- Partner with BU Connectors and Business Platforms to ensure application and infrastructure roadmaps align, whilst driving the transition of standardised infrastructure components to an automated and self-service state
- Drive pivotal initiatives, being the conduit between Connectors and Engineering Leads within the function
- Cultivate our people, by translating the bank’s technical strategy to clear career pathways, with defined development & training based on their needs
What are the essentials you need to demonstrate when applying?
- First-hand experience of leading an Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture / Design function with end-to-end project delivery
- Knowledge of Enterprise IT Systems, Standards and Governance
- You’ll be a strategic problem solver, with an ability to influence and implement ideas
- Experience of senior customer management across multiple business areas
- You're familiar with and passionate about technology
What would also be great to see…
- Experience of technical team leadership and development
- Evidence of when you have proactively influenced governance frameworks within an enterprise organisation
- Previous experience of transitioning standard technology infrastructure
We all learn and develop with our experience, but we know that having the right approach is the key to being successful. So whilst skills, knowledge and prior experience are important to us we want people who are highly motivated, and enthusiastic with a considered and curious approach to work.
What you'll get in return:
We have the scale to provide genuine opportunities to develop and achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career. We can offer working outside the traditional 9:5 a with flexible and hybrid working patterns and are happy to consider what might work for you.
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.
We'll also offer you:
- A performance-related share bonus.
- A 4% flex cash pot to spend on lifestyle benefits (or take as cash).
- 30 days holiday and private medical cover you can extend to family
- Share schemes, including free shares
- Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
- Colleague products and discounts from every day shopping to holidays
Salary: £70,000-88,000
Locations: Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, Halifax
So if you possess the skills we’re seeking then get in touch, we’d love to hear from you...
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.
