time left to apply End Date: May 24, 2025 (9 days left to apply)
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Edinburgh office
About this opportunity
An excellent opportunity for a dedicated Lead Software Engineer to join the team and build outstanding customer-facing solutions. In this role, there is an opportunity to craft the future of products across the protection landscape. This position offers a chance to be part of an ambitious and dynamic team that strives to deliver world-class solutions.
What you'll do
- Join the lab engineering leadership team, crafting the team's direction as we maintain the current platform and build ground-breaking products.
- Work closely with the head of engineering, product owners, architects, and other collaborators to define and complete the lab's roadmap, scope, and deliverables.
- Mentor and coach software engineers, developing their skills and career growth.
- Drive a culture of delivering highly resilient, secure, and quality software.
- Champion the adoption of best engineering practices, including those on our engineering excellence platform.
- Support the integration of solutions within the protection landscape.
About us
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.
What you'll need
You'll be a full-stack developer with proven experience of:
- Leadership, management, and mentoring skills, with the ability to encourage, motivate, and empower the software engineering team.
- Delivering systems design, software development, testing, and operational stability.
- Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP.
- Automation and CI/CD across the SDLC using Jenkins or Harness.
- Cloud-native solutions and integration with SaaS solutions via APIs.
- Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation.
And any experience of these would be really useful
- Oracle PL/SQL
- Delivering software solutions in financial services (particularly trading/investments or wealth)
- Delivering migrations
- Certifications in any of the above technologies
- Familiarity with Cloud, ideally GCP
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 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
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.