Head of Engineering

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JOB TITLE: Head of Engineering

SALARY: The salary banding for this Bristol and Halifax is £124,653 - £146,650 and for London is £144,424 - £169,910

LOCATION: London, Bristol, Halifax

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

We're seeking a dynamic and experienced Engineering Lead to join our Content Management lab within our Digital Frameworks Platform. This role is crucial in driving technical excellence and innovation within our content management product that powers our Consumer Relationships, Commercial, Insurance, Protection and Investments Business’ to create journeys for our Customers across our Public facing websites as well as our Franchised Customers’ Digital Experience using their mobile device or desktop browser.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, SaaS product management, and a deep understanding of content management and creation tools such as Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Workfront and Figma. Integrating and contributing to other core products within the bank such as Cyber & Edge and our Web App framework the sum of those parts drives transformation and value across hundreds of feature teams.

What will I be doing?

• SaaS Product Management: Lead the Technology integration, customization, and optimization of SaaS products; alongside our own software customisation to enhance our content management product.

• Technical Leadership: Lead the engineering team in the design, development, and implementation of content management Product and how it integrates seamlessly with other powerful framework products to truly enable our Engineers across the Group.

• In-House Engineering: Manage in-house software customisations.  Support teams in designing, developing, testing and deploying and maintaining high-quality and highly available applications that can leverage AI.  We “run” what we “build” within our teams.

• Innovation: Drive innovation by exploring new technologies and methodologies to improve content and marketing efficiency and effectiveness.  Foster a culture of innovation to ensure we deliver high quality services, maximise value of our investments and use technology to solve problems in new ways.  Drive Search Engineering Optimisation (SEO) and Site Performance Excellence.

• Customer Communication & Collaboration: Communicate technical concepts and roadmap status to non-technical customers, ensuring transparency and alignment.  Work closely with marketing, design, content, product, and other IT teams to align technical solutions with business goals.  Collaborate with multi-functional partners to improve visibility, search rankings, and overall site optimization aligned with business goals.

• Application Management: manage technology budgets, resources and allocating them efficiently across products and services.  Take ownership and accountability for delivery, operations risk management and total cost of services

• Your Development: Have the opportunity to participate in a number of career development activities, become aligned to some great Mentors within the business and access a huge array of learning and development to build your skills and career.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Strong leadership, management, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower the software engineering team.

• Proven experience in SaaS marketing and content products such as Adobe AEM, Workfront, and Figma.

• Hands-on proven experience of systems design, software development, testing, monitoring, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and operational stability.

• Standard practice coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, SQL, Java, Javascript).

• Practical experience within an Agile change delivery construct, ideally having used JIRA/JIRA Align previously being comfortable leading the team within a SCRUM model; always seeking to improve our skills and our product.

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 underrepresented 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.