Platform Engineering Lead

City

I.T. & Communications

100000 Annual

Permanent


Join a global IT services and consulting leader as a Platform Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in delivering transformative technology within one of the UK's most respected banking groups - Lloyds Banking Group (LBG). This is your opportunity to shape the future of modern banking technology through leadership, innovation, and cutting-edge engineering practices. Salary up to £100k plus bonus with offices in London, Leeds and Edinburgh and potential for hybrid working.

In this role you will be at the heart of technology strategy, mentoring high-performing engineering teams focused on delivering modern, cloud-native applications across LBG's digital platforms. You will drive technical leadership, enabling DevSecOps culture and contribute to delivery of governance aligning to the bank's QBR.

Responsibilities:

  • Champion knowledge share across and within labs.
  • Drive technical leadership, engineering excellence, required interventions strategy and capability relevant to platform priorities and focus
  • Contribute towards delivery governance aligning to the banks QBR, big room planning, agile events and ceremonies

Essential skills:

  • Exposure to JavaScript framework with API/Microservices background, Cloud-Native App Development
  • Experience in developing modern tech apps, channel experience design and build
  • Prior experience in mentoring a large technical team and evangelising emerging tech practices and trends
  • Innovation, strategy and thought leadership
  • Experience/expertise to monitor/measure/improve engineering maturity amongst the feature teams
  • Public Cloud experience
  • Engineering Leadership to drive engineering culture among the team
  • Experience in driving engineering in "product based' organisation and agile mindset
  • Experience in driving DevSecOps and Automation culture among the engineering team

Desirable skills:

  • Insurance domain experience is highly desired
  • Tech Dependency management, stakeholder management skills and storytelling abilities
  • Tech Debt and Risk management

Benefits:

Organisation is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally.

  • Alongside base salary of £90,000-£100,000 you will receive an annual bonus of up to £10,000
  • Pension scheme with 6% employer contribution, previous pension can be transferred
  • Fully funded training programs
  • Private medical insurance (inc. dental & eye care and pre-existing condition covered)
  • Life assurance & Income protection
  • Car Lease Schemes (inc. Jaguar Land Rover discounts)
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Additional benefits including GAYE (Give as you Earn), Staff discounts for groceries, utilities, electronics and Employee Assistance Programme (Family/Finances/Mental wellbeing)

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

You will find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join (these are optional). Their diversity, inclusion and social activities include 12 employee networks as well as health & wellness initiatives and sports events and the organisation sponsors the London Marathon.

Further information:

  • This role is office based across either London, Edinburgh or Leeds, however options for hybrid working can be discussed. Please ensure you are able to commute to these locations.
  • There is no sponsorship provided for this vacancy

If you're an IT professional with a strong expertise across Platform Engineering and ready for a challenge to make significant impact at Lloyd's Banking Group, then apply now or contact Zymante Gintalaite in confidence.

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