End date
Wednesday 21 February 2024
Salary range
£85,255 - £155,465
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Job description
JOB TITLE: Engineering Team Manager – Homes Platform
SALARY: £85,255 - £100,300
LOCATION(S): Halifax or Leeds
HOURS: [Full-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Halifax or Leeds Office
Do you want to drive cultural change at the UK's largest digital bank?
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.
Within the Homes Platform we're on a journey to transform our core technology and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. Over the last 2 years we have launched new digital journeys on modern JavaScript frameworks, developed detailed suites of customer journey and analytics, transitioned workloads onto the Cloud and incrementally modernised and simplified our technology estate, whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to autonomously deploy changes to production themselves.
Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of Mortgages in the UK, with over 2 million active Mortgages. We have placed Mortgages at the heart of our strategy to become the best bank for customers.
About this opportunity…
Working with the Lab Engineering Lead you'll be accountable for all facets of technology across multiple feature teams working alongside Feature Team Product Owners. Together with the Product Owners you'll jointly assume ownership for the prioritisation and delivery of the Labs backlog. You'll Lead a group of engineers to design, develop and integrate software features to achieve their goals. Aligning team goals with the needs of the broader lab, platform and group. We welcome applicants that are keen to operate as a 'Player Coach' where a portion of time will be spent hands-on doing technical delivery, while also leading and coaching the engineering team.
The role will also involve:
- Collaborating with Product Owner and Customer Journey Managers to deliver features on the product roadmaps, manage down technical debt, maintain the health of production instances and to create the space to develop the skills needed by the target technology architecture.
- Engineering solutions to be reliable, scalable, performant, and secure through adequate solution design, utilising endorsed technologies, applying common build patterns, and using established development practices. Engage Architecture and Technical Chapter Communities where needed to drive solution reuse, avoid complexity and creation of point solutions.
- Seeking to better understand the work through planning, contribute to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, foster collective responsibility of ceremonies, call out impediments accordingly and to handle external dependencies adequately.
- Taking hands on ownership for unblocking technical challenges and forward look to prove out new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use within your team, lab or platform. Where needed, act as a Chapter lead to drive cross platform strategies and solutions.
- 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.
- Installing active application custodianship to manage incidents, compliance findings, risks and running costs where it's the right answer for the team to maintain production instances. Where it's not, ensure performing teams are equipped to succeed.
- 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.
As a successful Engineering Team Manager you'll bring:
- Modern engineering knowledge from across a broad range of solutions and platforms.
- A broad working knowledge of different engineering and software design solutions across all facets of technology (including devops, data, automation, hosting, language, platform choices etc).
- Experience of navigating a complex systems architecture comprised of modern and legacy solutions, and in-house and product solutions.
- Practical experience of software design, build and release using DevOps principles and practices.
- Experience of mentoring and coaching engineers to build a world class engineering capability with particular focus on early years programmes.
- Experience of leading, inspiring and empowering teams using agile methods and tooling within a DevOps environment.
- An ability to communicate complex messages and influence stakeholders with competing priorities from across business and technology communities.
- A natural inquisitiveness and awareness to all facets technology and emerging products and consideration as to how these can be applied to deliver improvements in customer journeys.
- An ability to managing complex delivery, bringing together teams from within and outside the Bank around a shared outcome to deliver successfully.
- Experience of leading teams of up to 20 engineers and managing budgets in excess of £2m.
- Experience of continuous learning, shown in accreditations, usage of language frameworks, software engineering practices and how they embed in agile working practice. The skilling should allow the candidate to be in the work to give direction and feedback.
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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We're disability confident. So, if you would 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
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more. Join our journey!