Lead Technical Application Specialist

JOB TITLE: Lead Technical Application Specialist

Location: Edinburgh

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 the above locations

About this opportunity

Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We’re building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters. Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we’re there for customers in the moments that matter. We’re bold and we love to experiment. We’re not afraid to try out new ways of working, and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive.

As part of our Edinburgh based Lab, you will play a key role within established engineering teams evolving our Insurance, Pension and Investment Digital Channels. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate who is passionate and experienced in designing and delivering modern solutions.

What will you be doing

• Leading and collaborating with other engineering, product and business colleagues to implement data led product features that allow us to digitally modernise customer journeys

• Identify and develop strategic relationships with external partners and vendors

• Oversee resource planning and allocation for the function, and align this with organisational cadence and objectives

• Implementing streaming data applications to deliver data and analytics in near real time to customers and colleagues

• Utilising modern cloud hosted data stores that allow us to move away from legacy systems and benefit from the scalability and accessibility it offers

• Owning and completing the Platform Data Product Strategy to deliver high quality, reliable and consumable data products

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

What you’ll need

• A positive, energetic attitude and ability to lead effectively across multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams in the initiative lifecycle

• Extensive experience developing innovative and complex system analysis artefacts, designs and technical requirements especially on initiatives with 3rd Party Platforms

• The capability to play a lead role in modern engineering teams to deliver value through Cloud hosted solutions (preferably GCP) and real-time data streaming like Kakfa

• Proven ability and the growth mindset to drive inclusive cultural change and promote continuous improvement across the organisation

• Future focussed outlook, able to clearly communicate a customer-centric end state that motivates and inspires colleagues

• Deep knowledge in the Financial Services sector, particularly Pensions, Investments and Bancassurance

• A talent to see the inherent value in data and the skills to story tell and visualise it through appropriate tools like Tableau and PowerBI

About working for us

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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.