AddressJOB TITLE:Head of Engineering - Homes Platform
Please make sure you read the following details carefully before making any applications.
SALARY: £118,652 - £139,590
LOCATION(S): Halifax or Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Offices
About this opportunity
Are you ready to join our Homes Platform Leadership team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation?
Within the Homes Platform we're on a journey to transform our core technology and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. Over the last two years we have launched new digital journeys using modern JavaScript frameworks, developed detailed suites of customer journey analytics, transitioned workloads onto the Cloud and incrementally modernised and simplified our technology estate. Whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to autonomously deploy changes to production themselves.
Working with the Homes Technical Platform Lead, as a Lab Engineering Lead you'll be accountable for all facets of technology (across both run and delivery) for your Lab, working alongside the Lab Product Owner to run a world class product and engineering organisation with deep focus on service.
Here's where you'll make a difference
Leading the technical strategy for your Lab across both immediate and long term horizons and building senior business and technology stakeholders advocacy in this vision. Considering the strategic commitments, resilience challenges, technology risks, currency needs and regulatory expectations that need to be delivered. In doing so, maintaining alignment between solutions and Group standards / policies and making sure that the outcomes which are delivered are measurable and can be tied back to OKRs.
Coordinating the delivery of this strategy through the feature teams within your Lab, and more widely across the Homes Platform and wider Bank. Proactively identifying delivery challenges and opportunities to release early value or de-risk deliveries.
Ensuring that there remains a critical focus upon service and resilience for the services and applications that are owned by your Lab, considering immediate and future requirements and risks. Thereby, embedding service as a collective responsibility for everyone within your Lab.
Developing the leadership team within the Lab, by role modelling Group Values and expectations, and holding them to account for clear individual objectives. To grow the people within your Lab, and create a true learning culture where team members can grow and develop. In doing so, accessing Group Wide Frameworks, learning collateral and early careers programmes to build a rounded engineering capability within your Lab.
Embedding agile and DevOps practices and constantly reviewing opportunities to improve the flow of work. Providing the business and technical capabilities that enable and empower feature teams to design and delivery change themselves locally through smaller more frequent releases.
Ensuring that costs are carefully managed against available budgets and that opportunities to improve the efficiency of internal and external spend are constantly reviewed.
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
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. 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. Join us on our journey and you will too
Specifically, we're looking for people who have
Extensive practical experience and working knowledge of different engineering and software design solutions across all facets of technology (including devops, data, automation, hosting, language, platform choices etc). And, experience of working in a complex systems architecture comprised of modern and legacy solutions, and inhouse and product solutions.
Deep experience of running a modern technology service, managing risk and security standards, and prioritising the need to maintain and protect service versus the need to transform capabilities and experiences.
Practical experience of software design, build and release using DevOps principles and leading and empowering teams using agile methods and tooling.
A natural inquisitiveness to all facets technology and consideration as to how these can be applied to deliver improvements in customer journeys. With evidence of continuous learning, shown in accreditations, usage of language frameworks, software engineering practices and how they embed in agile working practice.
Can inspire and engage all levels of your Lab and embed a true culture of collaboration and ownership within the team. To build a build world class cross disciplinary engineering capability across teams, bringing together training programmes, targeted external recruitment and use of early years programmes.
Demonstrate an ability to communicate complex messages and influence CSuite stakeholders with competing priorities from across business and technology communities. Utilising data and analytics to underpin the decisions that you make and explain the 'why'.
Understanding of working within the UK Financial Services Market and the challenges facing UK Financial services institutions.
Experience of leading teams of in excess of 100 engineers and managing budgets in excess of £10m. Applying strong commercial competence to establish long lived engagements with third parties which balance trust and challenge.
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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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.
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.
Join our journey.
