Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

As the UKs largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and we have a clear strategy to put customers first and achieve our vision of being the best bank for our customers. We're committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve - where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

Who are the Software Engineering Centre of Excellence?

We're a group of people pulled together by our passion for coding, experimenting, designing, and learning everything that makes us better engineers, and we're relentless in putting our skills and passion at the service of our customers. Lloyds Banking Group vision is to be the best bank for customer and to realize it we have the mission to make it the best bank for Engineers!

What would you get involved with?

As our goal is to be a catalyst for change, our team is mainly passionate about accelerating adoption of modern engineering practices: Cloud, Open Source, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, and others.

We have 3 core missions:

Code Craft - Bring our engineering community together to define, embrace and evolve the common set of principles that make up great software. Open Source - Redefining the way we Consume, Contribute and Publish Open Source. Cloud Ready - Help the organization reap the full benefits of cloud. As an engineering centric team, we have fair degree of autonomy about what we work on, and we strive to dedicate our effort on the most impactful work.

We generally engage in two broad categories of work:

• Vertical: We work alongside other teams to provide support and guidance on how to accelerate their transformation.
• Horizontal: We leverage the experience matured in the Vertical work to build or share existing cross cutting tools and practices that can be used by any team in the organization.

About you

Generally, you are comfortable in a technical leadership role, blending both leadership experience and hands-on technical expertise. To be successful in this role we believe you should have experience with much of the following:

• Software Engineering background with experience in building applications with at least one of the following languages: Java, JavaScript, Python.
• Experience of working in a cloud environment (e.g., GCP, Azure, AWS).
• You are comfortable in roles that require you to blend your technical expertise with your ability to influence business stakeholders and manage non-technical problems.
• Passionate about driving a true modern DevOps culture.
• Passionate about mentoring and coaching.
• Showcase interpersonal and communications skills with ability to communicate and engage with non-technical and senior stakeholders.

It would be great if you also had...

• Good understanding of SRE practices.
• Awareness of security considerations and security tools used to integrate with the build pipeline covering OWASP top 10.
• Hands-on skills and project experience with automated configuration delivery tools - one or more of Terraform, Ansible, Chef or Puppet.
• Experience of working in a Scrum/Agile/Lean environment.
• Understanding of modern CI/CD tooling.
• Good awareness of microservice architectures and containerisation.

What you'd get in return:

Offering you both opportunity and profile - we'll provide you with a diverse, energising and lively environment that focuses on equal opportunity and real career progression. We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a genuine difference to millions throughout your career with us!

We'll also give you a great remuneration package which includes a variable, discretionary performance share bonus, a generous pension contribution of up to 15%, a 4% flexible benefit (cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle), private health cover, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays and access to share schemes and staff discounts.

What support will I get and how will my career grow?

As a multi-brand, multi-channel business, we have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.

You'll also work in a particularly exciting area of the bank, so youll be surrounded by hardworking and progressive people who will help you develop.