Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer

SALARY: £ 70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION:  Leeds

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 our Leeds office location 

About this opportunity

We’ve created “LBG Platforms” and we're building multi-functional, co-located teams giving them freedom to bring technology to the forefront of our business.

A platform is a co-located team who work together to deliver value at pace by designing services that people find useful, easy, and engaging to use. Typically, a platform has a strong focus on sophisticated problem solving in an agile way where engineers are free to experiment and build innovative products which will transform the way our customers engage with us.

Our Insurance & Personal Investments Platform are improving support to our customers throughout their financial lives, with clear, straightforward customer journeys, helping empower them to make the right decisions on their long-term Saving, Investment, Insurance, and home protection.

What will I focus on as a Software Engineer?

As a Software Engineer within the General Insurance (GI) platform, you’ll be responsible for leading and motivating a multi-disciplinary team of Software Engineers, taking accountability for all delivery and operational activities. You’ll be passionate about technology, both current and future trends, and will look for opportunities to bring these into the platform, whilst being a role model for your team and colleagues around you.

Here's how you'll make a difference…

• Contribute to the strategic direction for engineering delivery within our teams.

• Lead a culture of continual improvement.

• Driving an ‘automation first’ approach across the teams

• Act as a mentor, coach, and role model to GI platform colleagues, implementing a learning culture and a focus on personal and team development.

• Work collaboratively with other colleagues and teams to achieve shared success.

• Lead transformational initiatives across the platform or broader programme.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need:

• Proven experience in Engineering delivery roles – Duck Creek Desired but not essential.

• Engineer stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable, and secure software solutions using endorsed technologies and common build patterns.

• Have proven experience in engineering principles, practices, and technologies.

• Expertise in delivering and supporting high-availability, high-performance systems.

• Have effective collaboration and communication skills, able to work and influence across functional boundaries.

• A passion for coaching, developing & motivating colleagues.

Technology Experience

• .NET Framework & C# & XML for Core development

• SQL Server: Database platform for performance tuning and patching 

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Skills in provisioning and configuring environments using pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Harness).

• UCD (UrbanCode Deploy): Used for deployment automation (Nexus rm or Backstage also desirable)

• CI/CD Creation and Maintenance: GIT or Harness Pipelines for continuous integration and deployment

• Cloud Technologies (Azure or GCP): Migration and operation of cloud environments, including compute and storage scalability 

• Containerisation & Virtualisation: Familiarity with virtual and physical server provisioning, especially in strategic data centres

• Platform Resilience & Observability: Designing for uptime, performance, and root cause analysis.

• Web Services & APIs: Used for Integration with 24+ LBGI systems

• Batch Processing: Understanding of batch suite performance and scheduling constraints 

• RPA & Automation (Batching): Familiarity with robotic process automation

• Log Aggregation & Analysis: Tooling for log interrogation and root cause analysis (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace).

• Dashboarding: Real-time analytics dashboards for infrastructure and application health 

• Support & Troubleshooting: Remote operations, incident response, and environment health checks.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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!