Job Description

End Date Monday 27 October 2025
Salary Range 90,440 - 106,400
Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share
Summary The purpose of the Engineering Lead is to support the Lab leadership and the teams within their area to deliver against the strategy and their delivery commitments. Colleagues in these roles must come from an Engineering background, and this position represents the conscious decision of an Engineer to progress down the management track of the Y-shaped model. This allows these colleagues to start building up the broader set of skills required to operate in a engineering management position, not all of which will be developed under the Software Engineer role. However, they will remain deeply technical, providing technical guidance to teams and making sure that they make the right technology choices, though the broader set of responsibilities will often (though not always) take them away from actual coding on a very regular basis.

JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead
SALARY: 90,440 - 106,400
LOCATION: Leeds
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Leeds office
About this opportunity:
Our commitment to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the world of banking and financial services is unwavering. As an Engineering Lead, you'll be at the forefront of this exciting transformation, driving our digital evolution and redefining the future of banking and insurance.
Picture yourself leading a team of brilliant engineers, all dedicated to crafting innovative solutions that empower millions of customers to live their lives with a strong sense of security. Your role will not only be about managing technical projects; it will be about shaping the future of insurance, one line of code at a time.
Here's where you'll make a difference:

• Leading teams of engineers to design, develop and integrate software features to achieve their goals. Aligning team goals with the needs of the General Insurance business and wider group
• Collaborating with the Product Owner and Customer Journey Manager to deliver features on the product roadmaps, manage down technical debt and maintain the health of production instances
• Engineering solutions to be reliable, scalable, performant, and secure through expert solution design, utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns.
• Lean-in and take a hands-on ownership for unblocking technical challenges, prove out new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use within the team, lab or platform.
• Install active application custodianship to manage incidents, compliance findings, risks and running costs.
• Working to build a strong team by coaching, developing and mentoring engineers on how to achieve their team, technical and personal goals. Create the space to develop the skills needed by the target technology architecture.
• Embedding Agile and DevOps practices and constantly reviewing opportunities to improve the flow of work. Providing the business and technical capabilities that enable and empower feature teams to design, build and release change themselves locally through smaller more frequent releases.
• Ensuring that costs are carefully managed against available budgets and that opportunities to improve the efficiency of spend are constantly reviewed. Supply critical technical feedback to the investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities.

About us
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too...
What you'll need:

• You should have a strong background in software development, with expertise in relevant programming languages, frameworks, and technologies. You should be able to demonstrate a track record of designing and building complex, scalable systems
• Prior experience in a leadership role, such as a team lead, technical lead, or engineering manager, is essential.
• Extensive practical experience in providing engineering team oversight to develop strategic solutions to achieve business outcomes by anticipating issues, challenges, and opportunities. With experience of working in a complex systems architecture comprised of modern and legacy solutions, inhouse and product solutions.
• Deep experience in leading modern engineering teams within enterprise
• A strong understanding of the banking and financial services industry
• You should have experience in designing and architecting software systems, considering factors like scalability, security, and performance.
• Experience mentoring and coaching engineering team members to help them grow professionally and improve their skills.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience working on projects related to insurance products is a significant advantage.

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.

• 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.

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