Engineering Lead

Our Cash Management & Payments Platform, GEM Lab teams aim to deliver the highest quality software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting colleague development. This is a software engineering level role within the Lab that will blend deep domain / technical expertise with great passion for mentoring and developing software's in delivering technical solutions to become the bank of the future.

Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Cash management and payments technology landscape, enabling the Bank of the Future and ultimately driving value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role at the financial heart of LBG, underpinning the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.

What you'll do

• You'll collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams, driving efforts to create, build, support and improve our software.


• Simplify and modernise our technology estate to enable internal flexibility and increase responsiveness to evolving customer needs.


• Extend and enhance the functionality of our existing applications.


• Lead teams delivering micro-service-based applications and play a key role in moving our legacy stack onto Cloud.


• Contribute to setting the strategic direction for how we integrate with applications from other platforms and different providers.


• Ensure applications are fast, secure, and work across all manner of devices and platforms.


• Mentoring and developing engineers, providing clear and constructive feedback, whilst driving a culture of learning and continuous improvement


• Ensuring that all engineering work in the Lab is carried out in line with Bank standards and fully rounded engineering methods and principles


• Identify and mitigate against risks to value delivery, live operational services, and technology platform.
  
  Extensive experience in Cash Management and Payments for Commercial


• Experience implementing changes in SAP Banking Products


• Java / Java Script (Spring, Spring Boot, Node JS)


• Experience in working with Kafka , Microsoft Azure and IBM Aurora cloud servers


• Experience in usage of Websphere / Collective controller / IHS


• Dev Ops Tooling : Jenkins / Maven / GitHub / Urban code / Dynatrace / Splunk


• Hands-on experience on Microservices and exposing them as REST / SOAP API's


• Experience in deploying services in on-prem and containerised (Kubernetes) environment


• Experience in Cloud deployments and providing solutions in hybrid cloud environment
  
  We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!, 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.

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 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.