Overview

You'll be an advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model. Aim to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended.

What you'll do

• Work as part of a self-organised engineering team to design and develop software features or services that are delightful and vital in our mission to help Britain prosper.
• Be a technical leader both within your team and outside, coaching and/or mentoring other more junior engineers as appropriate.
• Work with the product and engineering leads to achieve the vision and customer outcomes for your Lab, through writing well-factored and tested code.
• Be curious about technology and understanding how things work. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.
• A capable technical lead, who takes ownership of delivery and is willing to help grow and guide junior engineers towards appropriate target architectures.
• Strong programming skills with a good working knowledge of Kotlin and modern toolsets like Git, Android Studio, JUnit, Espresso and Jenkins.
• Diverse technical experience and a proven ability to deliver high quality applications at scale. Strong knowledge of security patterns and best practice advantageous.
• You're able to effectively communicate and work together across engineering to maximise inner-sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
• You're an advocate for quality and can support the team leveraging approaches such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.

About Lloyds Banking Group

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!

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience delivering customer-driven software within cross-disciplinary teams.
• Strong technical leadership capabilities and experience coaching and mentoring engineers.
• Proficiency in Kotlin and modern development tools (Git, Android Studio, JUnit, Espresso, Jenkins).
• Diverse technical experience with a track record of delivering high-quality applications at scale.
• Knowledge of security patterns and best practices is advantageous.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to maximize collaboration and reduce waste.
• Commitment to quality, with experience in practices such as Pair Programming, TDD and BDD.

Benefits & Diversity

• 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
• Disability inclusion measures, Workplace Adjustments, and the Disability Confident Leader status

Compliance & Culture

We keep your data safe. We will only ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to an interview or accepted a verbal offer, at which point background checks will be conducted. We are focused on creating a values-led culture and a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities. We strive to be an inclusive workplace where colleagues can thrive and perform at their best.