Engineering Lead

End date

Monday 29 April 2024

Salary range

£86,964 - £102,310

We support agile working

Click here for more information on agile working options.

Agile Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead

SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Port Hamilton office in Edinburgh.

About this opportunity

You're a broad and deep software engineer with demonstrable experience in enterprise environments. You are comfortable in a complex and heterogeneous technical environment. You are practiced in leading multiple teams, shaping their vision, driving innovation, encouraging collaboration and ensuring your engineers are enabled to work to their best. You build teams that always deliver.

Come join LBG's Protection Platform, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team – come make us even better.

About us

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you'll find them all here.

Here's how you'll make a difference…

• You'll be responsible for the successful delivery of the Protection digital proposition to customers and advisers through multiple channels;
• Foster a Fail Fast, Learn Faster mentality within Teams to experiment and test new ways of engineering;
• Work closely with the Product Owners to prioritise system improvements alongside the delivery of product features, driving high quality change delivery;
• Act as a change agent for engineering and team culture, promoting a test and learn approach, systems thinking and user experience led design;
• Attract, develop and retain engineering talent;
• Drive a culture of learning and continuous improvement motivated by Engineering excellence and plays a lead role in supporting Engineering Chapters, Guilds and community activities.

What you'll need

• 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.
• You 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 a high performing team culture
• You will inspire delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust

About working for us

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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.