Engineering Lead - Insurance, Pensions & Investments Platform

End Date
Tuesday 02 April 2024
Salary Range
£121,023 - £142,380
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead - Insurance, Pensions & Investments Platform
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol or Leeds
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 one of the office locations above
Do you want to drive cultural change at the UK’s largest digital bank?
Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) has a vision to improve the support we provide to our customers throughout their financial lives, empowering them to make the right decisions on their long-term saving, investment, and retirement needs. We're doing this by providing clear, straightforward customer journeys, supported by flexible and resilient product platforms and services.
Through the ongoing development, modernisation and simplification of the shared platforms and services that sit at the heart of the Insurance Pensions and Investments business, the Insurance, Pensions & Investments Foundations platform plays a key role in the realisation of this vision.
You'll be pivotal in shaping the vision for the Lab, and as a result centre on setting the strategic direction for the engineering teams to demonstrate thought leadership in contemporary technical delivery, across the entire lifecycle, from idea to realisation of value.
You’ll also collaborate with Engineering Leads in other platforms (within IP&I and across the Group).
Why Lloyds 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. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
Here's how you'll make a difference...

• You’ll be responsible for the successful delivery of the Shared Components backlog to deliver features on the product roadmaps, manage down technical debt, maintain the health of production instances and to create the space to develop the skills needed by the target technology architecture.
  
• Foster a Fail Fast, Learn Faster mentality within Teams to experiment and test new ways of engineering
  
• Work closely with the Product Owners to prioritise system improvements alongside the delivery of product features, driving high quality change delivery.
  
• Act as a change agent for engineering and team culture, promoting a test and learn approach, systems thinking and user experience led design.
  
• You’ll understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt
  
• Be responsible for third party and internal IT providers including management of significant investment and BAU budgets
  
• Attract, develop and retain engineering talent
  
• Drive a culture of learning and continuous improvement motivated by Engineering excellence and plays a lead role in supporting Engineering Chapters, guilds and community activities.
  

What we need from you..

• A visionary leader and an advocate for digital transformation
  
• A passion for team development; allowing colleagues to develop in different/new technologies and mature in ways of working, resulting in a successful team.
  
• Extensive experience and technical engineering knowledge in delivering customer experiences on mobile (native and web), and proven experience in development of channel architecture capability.
  
• Are technology agnostic and willing to adapt your approach in pursuit of the best solution; enables via an excellent knowledge and understanding of multiple engineering & software design solutions.
  
• Experienced in providing software engineering oversight, technical and people leadership across multiple teams.
  
• Successful in building a high performing team culture
  
• You'll inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust
  

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
  

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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.