Engineering Lead

JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

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

About this opportunity

Customer Data Services empowers Lloyds Banking Group by providing a centralised, seamless, and secure platform for the onboarding and maintenance of customer data.

We're the trusted guardians of our customers' information, ensuring accuracy, accessibility, and privacy.

As an Engineering Lead, you'll drive the success of our engineering teams, ensuring they have everything they need to thrive. You'll lead both day-to-day operations and long-term change initiatives, ensuring everything runs efficiently while constantly improving. You'll also make sure technology is at the heart of decision-making. Your deep technical background will be crucial in guiding the team and making strategic calls on risk, resilience, and cost management.

What you'll do

• Inspire and guide engineering teams, empowering them to design, build, test, and deploy modular, cloud-native applications and APIs.

• Champion cross-functional collaboration, working closely with Product Owners, Architects, Quality Engineers, and executive stakeholders to align technical delivery with strategic goals.

• Drive architectural decisions and technical governance, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

• Integrate seamlessly with internal systems and third-party APIs, delivering smooth and intuitive user experiences.

• Shape engineering strategy and innovation, influencing the future direction of our platforms, practices, and ways of working.

• Mentor and develop talent, cultivating an inclusive environment where engineers can grow, thrive, and do their best work.

Why 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!

What you'll need

• Experience leading and mentoring teams of dedicated engineers, cultivating a collaborative and inclusive environment.

• Hands on Software Engineering background with experience successfully delivering large-scale applications using a broad set of tools, techniques, and platforms, including public cloud technologies.

• Experience working with Java, Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs, JSON, and Microservices.

• Knowledge of container environments in particular OpenShift, Service Mesh, and Helm.

It would be great if you also had

Passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

Awareness of security considerations and security tools.

Some experience in operations and support, ideally following SRE principles.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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