Lead Engineer - Customer Data Products

End Date Tuesday 20 June 2023 Salary Range £81,928 - £153,615
Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary Lead Software Engineer - Java - Customer Data Services Lab Job Description Our Mission We're on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it. We're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our culture are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation. Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, and Scottish Widows (among others). Our flat teams will encourage and empower you to make decisions, build positive relationships, and deliver a meaningful difference to our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our mentors will nurture your talent and encourage you to further develop yourself and your career. About the Customer Data Services (CDS) Lab We're the team that looks after the customer data for the whole of Lloyds Banking Group. Our mission is to make this data available for the right purpose with the appropriate confidentiality and always ensuring a phenomenal engineering experience, performances, resilience, and integrity. The systems we support, underpin almost everything we do as Lloyds Banking Group. We maintain these systems with the highest standard, with an ambition to take ownership of the operational support 24/7 using SRE principles. We are spread across 3 UK hubs – Bristol, London and Manchester and a handful of locations in India. Within Data & Machine Learning (D&ML), we work flexibly and operate a hybrid working pattern with teams & individuals mixing their time between home and office locations with a principle of 2-3 days a week on average in the office agreed at a team level to balance both individual needs and business outcomes. About you Generally, you're comfortable in a technical leadership role, blending both solid leadership experience and technical expertise. We're looking for a strong collaborator that can drive a strategy and key initiatives forward, while being an advocate for excellence, culture, and sustainability. You'll support the growth and mentor junior colleagues, while helping shape the culture of the team. More specifically we’d like you to have the following skills & experience:

• Outstanding interpersonal and communications skills with ability to communicate and engage with non-technical and senior stakeholders
• Hands on Software Engineering background with experience in building large scale applications in Java, using a fairly broad set of tools, techniques, and platforms, including cloud hosting.
• Experience working with Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs, JSON, Microservices
• Good understanding of architecture and cloud native principles
• Experience working with container environments in particular Docker, Kubernetes and Helm (e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS), ideally GCP.
• Awareness of security considerations and security tools used to integrate with the build pipeline covering OWASP top 10
• Passionate about driving a modern and inclusive culture
• Some experience in Operations and support, ideally following SRE principles
• Able to listen, reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion but you're not strongly tied to it
• A growth mindset, who encourages, mentor and motivates the teams around you
• Ability to contribute to defining objectives to continuously improve and measure metrics
• We deeply value diversity and are proudly committed to being an equal opportunity employer.

So, if you have the skills, background, and outlook we're seeking then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you! What can we offer you in return? Annual basic salary range: £85,208 - £106,510 (April 2023 min to midpoint for 7F pay group) + 14% (£14,911) = £121,421.00 In line with our strategy to be the Best Bank for Colleagues, we encourage a culture of professional development. You'll have numerous opportunities to stretch and develop beyond core role responsibilities. In addition, recognition for colleague contribution and performance is a truly meaningful element of our colleague charter. You'll be rewarded with excellent benefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity! As well as a competitive salary, you’ll receive:

• A Discretionary Performance Share Award
• Generous pension contribution
• 30 days leave plus bank holidays
• Access to various benefits
• Private health cover
• Share Schemes

So why should you apply? You’ll become part of a team that has an inclusive, values-led culture. This means we embrace that not everyone is the same or likes to work in the same way. We're focused on delivering for both our customers and our colleagues; you’ll receive support to learn, grow and develop, benefitting from a huge range of opportunities opened up by being part of our Group. Offering hybrid working patterns we believe that a healthy work/ life balance is as important as the work we deliver, just let us know what might work for you. We are passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. We're committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve, where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. And we’re proud to have received these industry recognitions: Stonewall Top Private Sector Employer, Top10 Employer for Working Families, The Times Top 50 Employer for Women and both Gold Standard and Best Workplace Adjustments Process from the Business Disability Forum. Together we make it possible…. 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.