Engineering Lead

  • Full-time

Company Description

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Job Description

End Date

Thursday 02 February 2023

Salary Range

£81,928 - £102,410


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Agile Working Options

Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

Salary: £81,928 to £102,410 per annum (depending on experience) for London; £70,784 to £88,480 (depending on experience) for outside London; plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Location: London; Halifax or Edinburgh

Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

At Lloyds, we're motivated by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Over the last few years, we've grown our number of active online banking users to 14.5 million and our mobile users to over 9 million.

We're committed to continuing to deliver a leading customer experience by improving our digital capabilities, providing personalised propositions and building on our multi-channel model.

Where does the role sit?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Channels Enabling Platform, where the Identity and Authentication Lab provides an enterprise level Authentication service. The Platform needs to meet the Strong Customer Authentication regulatory commitments, enable innovation to help lead into the bank of the future, and to trailblaze within the Industry. The Platform will support and grow a wide range of authenticators to serve the Bank’s digital channels.

We are committed to delivering a world-class customer experience by building a state-of-the-art Identity & Authentication Platform and enabling our Customers to feel safe and secure with their data while accessing our multi-channel digital ecosystem.

We're building the bank of the future, and we need your help.

What will I focus on in this role?

The Engineering Lead role is vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect! You’ll realise business value by delivering reliable, scalable and working software to through to Production. The successful candidate will ensure that platforms and services are built consistent with industry methodology and standards, and be responsible for the design and solutions for the domain application stack, understanding application integration and E2E flow. They should also be comfortable communicating this at all levels, from senior partners down to root-cause analysis with developers.

Specific activities which you’ll be responsible for include things like:

  • Through expert engineering and architectural skills, translate high level business requirements into technology that align to the strategic architecture

  • Direct and control specialist teams to undertake the delivery of comprehensive designs

  • Lead senior business partners to secure strong engagement for the solution and ensure that delivery aligns to longer term roadmaps

  • Take technical solutions through governance processes with meaningful artefacts and ensure the required engineering and architecture cohorts are engaged as required throughout the entire lifecycle

  • Coach and lead other engineers and build a strong team culture through peer-to-peer teamwork and development

What do we need to see from you?

  • Strong software engineering background

  • Experience of working in Web/Mobile programmes

  • Knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership

  • Experience across the entire solutions development lifecycle from inception, through build to Production

  • You'll appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability

  • Experience of API design and architecture patterns

  • Exposure to modern application frameworks (Springboot, Java etc)

  • Knowledge of delivery of microservices to Production

  • Line management experience

  • Exposure to Systems Thinking

  • Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g. Kubernetes

  • Experience with Public & Private Cloud Solutions, ideally Google Cloud Platform and Open Shift Container Platform

  • Understanding of HSMs, OAUTH, LDAP, SAML, OpenID, SSO

  • Experience of Jenkins, WebSphere, APIC/DataPower appliances, Enterprise Liberty, development in JAVA using various framework such as Spring, Microprofile etc

Together we make it possible!

Lloyds Banking Group is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities.


Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grown and develop.

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'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.