End Date

Wednesday 29 April 2026

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Job Description Summary

The purpose of the Engineering Lead is to work with the Lab Product Owner to provide effectively leadership and management of the teams in their Labs. Specifically, this requires setting the vision, mobilisation of the teams required to deliver it and ensuring effective delivery execution. With the Lab PO they are also responsible for all operational management activities including workforce plans, risk and issue mitigation and cost management. There is a particular focus on the ways of working and overall engineering experience, where the Engineering Lead is responsible for creating the right environment for effective delivery which will include the identification of blockers and action plans to remove them.

Job Description

• Experience : 20+ Years

About you

We know that amazing people can come from a variety of backgrounds, and we believe in hiring for potential and passion. While we've outlined our ideal profile below, we are more interested in what you can achieve and your enthusiasm for leading at this scale. If you're excited by this challenge, we strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don't meet every single qualification listed.

We're Looking for a Leader Who...

• Is a deeply technical, hands-on leader at heart. You have likely spent a significant part of your career in hands-on development roles. You are fluent in the principles of building scalable and resilient distributed systems and use this technical depth to set a clear direction, guide your teams through their toughest challenges, and articulate a compelling vision.
• Leads with both conviction and empathy. You know how to set a high bar for performance and hold people accountable, but you do so with genuine care and commitment to developing the talent on your team. You can navigate the complexities of managing a large, senior team with a combination of firmness, fairness, and high emotional intelligence.
• Thrives on complexity and scale. The idea of migrating and modernising a mission-critical platform serving 30 million customers energizes you. You see a hybrid mainframe-and-cloud environment as a fascinating architectural challenge to be solved, not a legacy burden to be endured.
• Is a natural collaborator and influencer. You build strong, productive relationships with peers in Product, Risk, Enterprise Architecture, and across the business. You can communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and effectively bring visionary strategies to life.
• Takes ownership beyond the technology. You understand that a Lab of this importance has significant financial, risk, sourcing, and regulatory dimensions. You are comfortable with financial accountability and skilled at navigating the complexities of risk management in a regulated environment.

Key Skills and Experience

• Proven experience leading and scaling large, multi-disciplinary engineering organizations (e.g., 40+ engineers), including experience managing other engineering managers.
• A strong background in backend engineering, with demonstrable knowledge of technologies like building widely reused APIs, Java, Kafka, and enterprise-scale database systems.
• Experience with private and public cloud platforms (e.g., OpenShift / GCP) and a firm grasp of cloud-native architecture and migration strategies.
• A practical understanding of resilience, security by design, and the operational demands of running high-availability, mission-critical systems in a 24/7 environment.
• A track record of attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent to build impactful, high-performing teams.
• Experience in a highly regulated industry, such as financial services or payments, is highly desirable.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're building the bank of the future, and we're investing in the people who will get us there. We have been widely recognized as one of the best workplaces to grow your career in the UK: LinkedIn Top Companies 2025.

We offer a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, but the opportunity here is so much more:

• Unparalleled Impact: The work you do here will directly affect millions of lives and the prosperity of the UK. You will play a pivotal role of a transformation that will set the standard for the future of financial services.
• A Commitment to You: We put our people first. We offer a generous pension contribution of up to 15%, an annual performance-related bonus, share schemes, and a holiday allowance of up to 30 days plus bank holidays (dependent on grade and length of service).
• A Truly Inclusive Culture: We are committed to creating a workplace that is truly representative of modern Britain. Our inclusivity is widely recognised, and we have been named Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality.

We support our people with generous parental leave policies, a range of wellbeing initiatives, and active employee resource groups. We are proud of our public commitments to diversity and inclusion, as detailed in our annual reports, and are actively seeking to increase representation at all levels. If you need any reasonable adjustments to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know.

The Best of Both Worlds: Join a 320-year-old institution with the stability, resources, and scale of a market leader, but with the ambition, investment, and energy of a major technology company undergoing a profound transformation.