End Date
Monday 28 April 2025
Salary Range
£104,686 - £123,160
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
JOB TITLE: Public Cloud Engineering Lead
SALARY: £104,686 - £123,160 in London, or £90,440 - £106,400 outside of London
LOCATION(S): London, Halifax, Leeds, Manchester or Edinburgh
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 locations noted above.
About this Opportunity:
We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and 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 or 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.
Your role as an Engineering Lead is to be a visionary leader who works collaboratively with the Product Owner and others to create an organisation that provides the best value propositions to our customers. You will be responsible for leading a team of up to 20 engineers.
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.
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 effectively.
* 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 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.
What you’ll need
As a Leader:
* Vision and the ability to provide an engineering strategy and roadmap.
* Self-starter who inspires and motivates the teams around you.
* 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.
* Passionate coach for other engineers to build a strong team culture.
* 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.
* Demonstrate the following Engineering Principles and Core Values within your work, whilst educating the rest of the team on them.
As an Engineer:
* Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners.
* Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve.
* Significant experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team.
* Strong software development background essential, along with knowledge of modern software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.
* 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 lead 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.
Curious to know more? Join us for an ask me anything session on Tuesday 22nd from 12:00 to 13:00. If you would like to be included in this call, please email Cloudbusinessmanagement@lloydsbanking.com.
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.
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