Lead Software Engineer

We are recruiting for a Lead Software Engineer to join the team and build outstanding customer-facing solutions. In this role, there is an opportunity to craft the future of products across the protection landscape. This position offers a chance to be part of an ambitious and dynamic team that strives to deliver world-class solutions.

You w ill lead the technical development and delivery at Team and Lab level and will be responsible for overall tech delivery line management & app ownership alongside your own software engineering output.

• Lead a self-organised engineering team s to design and develop software features or services that delight our customers and contribute to our mission to help Britain prosper.

• Be a technical leader within your feature team, providing day-to-day line management, as well as providing leadership in the wider Lab and community, coaching and/or mentoring other engineers, helping them to grow.

• You'll lead and inspire teams to explore, adopt and responsibly integrate AI-driven solutions to achieve great customer outcomes and improve our engineering experience.

• Identifies shortcomings, then suggests and implements improvements to existing business practices, while developing and delivering projects or a workstream within the organisation's change management programme with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Provides input into the development of IT Security policies, develops underlying procedures and monitors their implementation for area of responsibility within the organisation.

• Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and/or supervises activities performed by a product development/specialist team.

• Be curious about technology and look to foster a culture of innovation. You'll influence positively demonstrating the right values and behaviours as we improve how we deliver.

Do you have experience in Software development?, * A technical lead, who takes ownership of delivery and is willing to help grow and guide engineers to form successful teams.

• Experience of agile development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment, test automation and the E2E software development lifecycle.

• Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle using a broad range of technologies from those listed below.

• Microservices and APIs.

• Java , Python, JavaScript.

• Data and database programming such as SQL, PL/ SQL, Oracle, BigQuery.

• CI/CD/DevOps tooling experience e.g., GIT, Jenkins , Harness.

• Working in the public cloud domain at scale e.g. Google, AWS or Azure .

• Strong collaboration and communication skills and an enthusiasm for advocating best practice across Product & Engineering.

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

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., 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.   You must create an Indeed account before continuing to the company website to apply