Job Description

End Date

Monday 18 August 2025

Salary Range

90,440 - 164,920

We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Summary

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JOB TITLE:

Lead Software Engineer

SALARY:

90,400 - 106,400

LOCATION(S):

Leeds

HOURS:

Full time

WORKING PATTERN:

Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location

About this opportunity

As a Lead Software Enginner you will lead the technical development and delivery at Team, Lab and sometimes platform level. They can be a Line Manager who will act as co-lead with the Team PO for overall delivery. In these cases, they will be responsible for overall tech delivery line management & app ownership alongside their own software engineering output. Others will operate as Individual Contributors, who are specialists in particular technology areas and will be narrower and deeper in focus.


Key responsibilities include:


Define, communicate and implement our engineering strategy across the Lab. This includes, focusing on patterns, methods, and approaches; working with the teams to implement and embed within our end-to-end engineering activity. Play an active part in the Engineering Leadership team, supporting others & directly reporting into the Engineering Lead (Band G) for the Lab Simplify and modernise our technology estate. Leading, inspiring, and managing individuals to continually improve and develop their engineering knowledge and capabilities; working in collaboration with other leaders to maximise the benefit of this capability within our teams. Helping to bridge the gap between Architecture & Software Engineering bringing the theory to life! Working closely with the product owner to shape and deliver solutions to business problems.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What we need from you?

A technical lead, who takes ownership of delivery and is willing to help grow and guide engineers to form successful teams. Experience of leading and embedding engineering transformation initiatives across teams. An understanding of how Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment operates and can be applied in a modern Engineering environment. Proven experience in hands-on software engineering using a broad range of technologies including those listed below. Recent experience designing and developing complex Aptitude Studio, Oracle PL/SQL and Unix Bash/Korne Shell components for a financial services organisation. CI/CD/DevOps tooling experience including Jenkins and Urban Code Deploy. Proven debugging skills and lead by example attitude Design Patterns. Agile software development approach. Strong collaboration and communication skills and an enthusiasm for advocating best practice across Product & Engineering.

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.