Engineering Lead - Payments

Monday 30 March 2026 Hybrid Working 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.

• ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY…
  A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Lead within Payments Services Platform at Lloyds Banking Group, to head up the Swift Lab and lead the core engineering teams within those, influencing our technical landscape for the future. You'll be responsible for further developing and delivering transformational change for our key payments data services, supporting our customers and broader payments data ecosystem across the Group and play a pivotal role in shaping and driving the vision for the lab and within Payments Services. This a great opportunity for an established and well-seasoned leader in engineering who enjoys a challenge, taking-on large-scope transformative change and understands the impact of working for a Group supporting its customers and critical UK payments infrastructure.
  ABOUT US…
  We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
  WHAT YOU’LL NEED…
  To be considered for and successful in this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate the below:
  Strong Engineering Leadership experience:
  
  Extensive engineering leadership experience with a track-record of providing software engineering and data engineering oversight, technical and people leadership across multiple teams and of having taken responsibility for developing and successfully delivering change management plans that support the organisation's overall data strategy.
  
  Being a visionary leader with a track-record of being a strong advocate for technology transformation and engineering excellence especially around data
  
  Track-record of developing strategic data solutions to long-term business needs by anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities.
  
  Understanding the resilience requirements for critical business services and important business services.
  
  Familiarity with processes and protocols for maintaining and recovering critical services when things go wrong.
  
  Familiarity with key aspect of data including building data products, data governance, data strategy, data architecture and data monetisation.
  Team Development, Mentoring, Coaching:
  
  Successful in building a high-performing team culture and in recognising and coaching talent.
  
  A passion for team development; allowing colleagues to develop in different/new technologies and mature in ways of working, resulting in a successful team.
  
  The ability to inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust across the teams you lead.
  
  A relentless focus on delivering for customers and continually challenging the status quo to go further and faster is important. This includes learning from setbacks and turning them into successes.
  And any experience of these would be really useful:
  
  Previous experience within engineering in payments and/or within financial services especially around data would be advantageous but not essential.
  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. 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
  
  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!