Head of Engineering (Protection Platform)

The Protection Platform at Lloyds Banking Group provides Life and Critical Illness insurance to protect our customers from the unexpected events in life. In a complex but rewarding domain, we seek to combine an intense customer focus with excellent engineering.

The Head of Engineering (Protection Platform) will work collaboratively with other Lab roles to create empowered Teams who are motivated to take on business problems and realise value to customers through excellence in execution.

You will be pivotal in shaping the vision for the Lab, and as a result centre on setting the strategic direction for the engineering teams to demonstrate thought leadership in contemporary technical delivery, across the entire lifecycle, from idea to realisation of value.

• To be a visionary leader and an advocate for digital transformation



• A passion for team development; allowing colleagues to develop in different/new technologies and mature in ways of working, resulting in a successful team.



• Extensive experience and technical engineering knowledge and implementation of a broad range of platforms, including cloud.



• Are technology agnostic and willing to adapt your approach in pursuit of the best solution; enables via an excellent knowledge and understanding of multiple engineering & software design solutions.



• Experienced in providing Software Engineering oversight, technical and people leadership across multiple teams



• Successful in building high performing mission driven cultures



• You will inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust
  
  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., 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.

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