Job Description

End Date Monday 21 August 2023

Salary Range \xc2\xa373,616 - \xc2\xa3138,030

Agile Working Options Hybrid Working

Summary .



Job Title: Lead Software Engineer
Salary: \xc2\xa385,000 - \xc2\xa3105,000
Location: Bristol
Hours: (Full time / Part Time)
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you\xe2\x80\x99d be wrong. We\xe2\x80\x99re an innovative, fast-changing business that\xe2\x80\x99s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that\xe2\x80\x99s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose!

About this opportunity

You\'ll be part of our cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being a highly valued member of our wider Consumer Servicing and Engagement Engineering team. As part of these teams, you\'ll demonstrate and apply exemplary software engineering practices and skills, whilst working in a collaborative and agile environment.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll lead teams delivering web-based applications and play a key role in moving our legacy stack onto Cloud.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll contribute to setting the strategic direction for how we integrate with back-end applications.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll mentor and develop junior engineers, lead a team of engineers providing clear and constructive feedback, whilst creating opportunities for learning and growth

Integrate third party APIs to our products and services.

Transform our legacy estate to the multi cloud platform.

Build responsive web pages using frameworks/tools such as Java, Spring boot and Web Frameworks.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll need

An understanding of the full web application stack, deep and broad knowledge, with focus on Back-end API skill set.

Significant exposure to modern web technologies, especially; Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Web frameworks, JSP, JSF and microservices.

Leadership experience of Engineering teams through line management, coaching & mentoring of developers

Strong understanding of source code repositories and tools such as Git, UCD and JIRA and be able to assist the team with technical issues.

Familiar with an enterprise environment with automated build/test/release processes, source code management (Git) and change-management (JIRA)

And any experience of these would be really useful

Familiarity with cloud message APIs

Cloud experience migrating legacy applications; Desired to OCP/GCP

Creating and leading frameworks in a modular codebase and familiarity with Backend development.

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\xe2\x80\x99s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We\xe2\x80\x99re disability confident. So if you\xe2\x80\x99d 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\xe2\x80\x99 holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Lloyds Banking Group