Job Description

End Date Thursday 18 September 2025
Salary Range 90,440 - 106,400
Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share
Summary .

JOB TITLE: Lead Infrastructure Specialist (z Mainframe lab - Database SysProg)
SALARY: 90,440 - 106,400 dependent upon experience
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time - please note that this role will require you to be on call outside of normal working hours and there will be an additional on call allowance.
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office
About this opportunity
You'll be part of the z Mainframe Lab, reporting to the Engineering Lead for z Mainframe Hosting, and leading a team of c15 Infrastructure Specialists (Database Sysprog engineers). The z Mainframe Lab are the team that looks after the critical infrastructure that underpins Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG) strategic transactional processing systems, namely the IBM Z Mainframe. The IBM Z Mainframe is Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG) platform of choice for our high-end transactional processing requirements for business units.
We're looking for someone to lead, inspire and develop a team of backend engineers. You'll drive a strategic effort to improve the agility, pace of operations and cost, of our z Mainframe Lab for LBG. The services you'll help lead, develop, and operate are at the core of our infrastructure and require high quality while moving fast to keep up with our customers' needs. This is an exciting time to join the z Mainframe team! We're investing heavily in transformation activities which you'll directly be involved in!
What you'll do
Team leadership of roughly 15 engineers including personal development and day to day task & demand management. This will take up about 30% of your time!
Working with stakeholders to translate technical incidents into non-technical language
Incident, Change and Problem Management
Risk Management & controls
Supporting service improvements, applying Agile methods and working using JIRA and Jira Align toolsets
Driving backlog prioritisation of tasks and managing capacity within the team
Planning & supporting decommissioning & system upgrade activity
Acting as the technical point of contact for the team, developing and leading engineering product evolution in the z Mainframe lab.
Support the Engineering Lead.
Talent Management - Supporting our growing talent hires as they develop.
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
Experienced in both operational and line management/ talent development of a small to medium sized team of Engineers.
Background working in the z Mainframe sector and engineering experience with relevant technical concepts for z Mainframe Database technologies.
Experience in a technical leadership position, working at a senior level.
We're growing! We're focused on growing the talent in our team and need someone passionate about supporting, mentoring & motivating our teams!
If you have a financial services background or experience working within a regulated environment that would be beneficial.
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
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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