Head of Engineering

  • Posted 2 days ago
  • Permanent
  • 140585
  • London, Chester, Manchester
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End date

Monday 06 October 2025

Salary range

£144,424 - £169,910

Agile Working Options

Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Head of Engineering

SALARY: £144,424 - £180,000

LOCATION: London

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 London office.

About this opportunity…

As a senior technology leader, you will blend your deep domain and technical expertise to deliver technology solutions in partnership with other LBG technology functions and with 3rd party providers.

We’re looking for someone with a desire to learn, an ability to build thought-partnerships with a broad range of specialists across functions, and the patience and resilience to execute strategies that will evolve with changing customer, market and regulatory contexts.

The instalment engineering teams create software within the banking systems that are deployed across web and mobile giving our customers easy access to configurable credit. We can offer you the opportunity to work within an engaged dynamic team at the forefront of transforming and optimising the Lloyds Banking Group Consumer Bank.

About us…

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t 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 do…

  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to coordinate and lead the technology teams for one of our two credit card labs

  • Partner with Solution Architecture & Enterprise Architecture to ensure we have a clear future plan for the system architecture

  • Work with business stakeholders to better understand the emerging credit landscape and to spot new opportunities for growth within the credit card space

  • Provide inspiring leadership across teams of engineers developing and supporting modern technology solutions

  • Own the technology culture within your lab, ensuring we have a high performance culture where people take initiative and deliver on commitments

  • Supply critical technical feedback to the financial investment process in order to obtain funding for key solution opportunities

  • Provide influential leadership beyond the lab across the whole platform area, and more broadly within the wider technology department at LBG

What you’ll bring…

  • Experience in a wide range of modern platforms and technologies

  • Self-motivated and capable of driving delivery in a new business area

  • Strong capabilities for working with and influencing 3rd party providers

  • Great communication skills with business leaders and non-technical staff

  • Appreciation of how to use technology to deliver business change

  • Inspirational technology leader with a passion for rapidly delivering high quality software

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. 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!

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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'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.