Engineering Lead

Within Colleague Waterfront, part of the Insurance Pensions and Investments division of Scottish Widows, we're obsessed with providing our customers with the very best support, empowering them to make the right decisions to live their best financial lives. We seamlessly blend the latest technologies, with innovations in human cantered design and systems thinking to help Britain prosper through their long-term savings, investments and pensions. As we forge forwards in our mission, we're looking for a special brand of technical leadership to join our growing tribe of rockstars. As an Engineering Lead you'll spearhead a multi-disciplined team of engineers, taking accountability for delivery and operational activities. You'll be passionate about technology, both current and future trends, and will look for opportunities to bring these into the Lab, whilst being a role model for your team and colleagues around you. Things you'll be great at:

• You'll have a hands-on technical background, allowing you to offer deep technical guidance and recommendations to the Product Owner and Customer Journey Managers, focusing on minimizing technical debt, aligning with the technology roadmap, and prioritizing technical objectives.
• Overseeing the engineering and delivery of reliable, scalable, performant, and secure solutions by utilizing endorsed technologies, applying common build patterns, and adhering to established development practices. Collaborate with Architecture and Technical Communities to drive solution reuse, avoid complexity, and prevent the creation of point solutions.
• Taking hands on ownership for unblocking technical challenges, whilst looking forward to prove out new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use within your team, lab or platform.
• Collaborating with Agility Leads to advance the effectiveness of the team by installing change that increases the cadence of delivery, reduces cost ownership, and persists high quality of change. Champion the benefits of a single common framework over team specific practices.
• Working to build a strong team by coaching, developing and mentoring. Attracting new talent into the team and by mitigating retentions risks within the team.
• Investing to develop your own technical and leadership skills, keeping a close eye on emerging technologies that may add value to the technology stack within the Lab.
  
  Deep hands-on technical knowledge as a seasoned software engineer
• Modern engineering knowledge from across a broad range of solutions and platforms, including microservices, build patterns, DevOps, data, automation, hosting, language & platform choices etc.
• Effective collaboration and communication skills, able to work and influence across functional boundaries up to director level, with an ability to cut through complexity.
• Experience of navigating a complex systems architecture, comprised of modern and legacy solutions, and in-house and product solutions, using both on-premise and Cloud hosting.
• Practical experience of software design, build and release using DevOps principles and practices, with hands-on experience of JavaScript / typescript, GCP, test automation, and automated pipelines.
• An ability to managing complex delivery, bringing together teams from within and outside the Bank around a shared outcome to deliver successfully.
• Experience of mentoring and coaching engineers to build a world class engineering capability, with a passion for coaching, developing colleagues and building a strong team culture that radiates far beyond your team alone.
• An ever-developing knowledge of, and interest in, engineering principles, practices and technologies.
  
  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 performance-related bonus
• 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. 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.