Senior Infrastructure Engineer

LLoyds Banking Group
End Date
Wednesday 21 June 2023

Salary Range
£73,616 – £92,020

We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

Agile Working Options
Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Description Summary
Works with stakeholders to advocate engineering and deliver business value through sound and fully rounded engineering methods and principles, ensuring platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices. Supports the engineering community by providing deep domain and technical expertise and providing a voice to engineers to identify and support the resolution of issues. Ensures technical debt and releases are prioritised accordingly. Able to continually develop themselves with industry best practice methods and tooling used across their engineering teams.

Job Description

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers and a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We re in the middle of a £3bn investment into our People, Platforms and Data – with an Engineering led approach, all as part of our strategy to become the Best Bank for Customers and build the Bank of the Future.

It’s the role of our Chief Information & Security Office to provide the backbone and infrastructure upon which this bank of the future will sit. We’re supporting the infrastructure of a number of these pivotal initiatives through the provision of Colleague Technology Services and Products. Enterprise Toolsets Automation Data Science ensure that platforms and new technologies to the bank, are ready for Lloyds Banking Group use.

Our technology, culture, and our mind-sets are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation. We’re creating new opportunities and products to improve colleague experiences for years to come. With our business evolving to more modern and flexible approaches to working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals who join us on this journey.

Want to hear more?

The team designs and delivers Infrastructure solutions to enable product delivery and transformation. We work alongside Engineering Leads to understand application requirements in order to draw out infrastructure designs; ensuring compliance with the bank s patterns, standards and strategy. Once a design is created and internal teams and 3rd party suppliers mobilised we coordinate technical delivery to ensure your design is delivered to plan.

Our purpose is to enable, facilitate and transform infrastructure change for our customers. Ensuring our services are performant, secure, supportable, resilient, strategic and cost-effective.

In this role your accountabilities will include;

• Technical escalation point for IEs and the VS labs/project teams
• Resource planning & forecasting of Team Workload
• Assist IEs and Project/Labs to remove blockers from delivery
• Triage of new requirements with stakeholders, connectors and Security Engineering
• Produce high-level cost-estimates to allow the business to determine appropriate strategy and funding
• Meet regularly with Engineering Leads to discuss strategy, blockers and team funding
• Have full accountability for designs produced by team IEs. Review and approve design artefacts and support IEs through governance processes
• Understand current and future demand for VS deliverables applying Strategy and Architecture directives to provide design consultancy and direction
• Take the design lead for major projects or initiatives which involve multiple IEs

About you;

You’ll have first-hand experience of Infrastructure Design and governance and knowledge of Financial Markets systems and toolsets is essential for this role. Additionally you’ll have demonstrable experience of technical team leadership and of senior stakeholder management. We’ll also see evidence of your experience of conflict management in your application and experience of Cloud migration is desirable, but not essential.

Ideally you’ll possess a PSM qualification or experience of working in an Agile environment and a Systems Thinking qualification or exposure to other lean methodologies.

You’ll also be familiar with and passionate about engineering standard methodologies such as testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Here’s why you’ll make a difference:

You d get a benefits package that includes;

• A performance related bonus
• Generous pension contribution
• 30 Days leave plus bank holidays
• Private health cover
• Wider corporate benefits and perks

As a new colleague, you ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain, and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued.

We’re committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We’re an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

So if you possess the skills we re seeking then get in touch, we d love to hear from you.

Together we make it possible.

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.