Lead Technical Application Specialist

Job Title:  Lead Technical Application Specialist
Salary: £90,440 - £140,040 (depending on location)
Location: London, Bristol or Edinburgh
Hours:  Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

About this opportunity

Lloyds Banking Group is redefining itself to build the bank of the future. Our Commercial Banking division supports UK businesses and those connected to the UK, helping them grow, manage risk, and improve efficiency. Within Commercial Banking, you’ll help deliver the next generation digital bank for clients. By simplifying and automating journeys, clients will receive a better experience, and colleagues will be enabled to spend more time helping clients to grow their business.

This role is critical to ensuring we develop and integrate our systems in line with excellent engineering standards to meet our business needs and improve our colleagues' relationship management journeys for clients. As a subject matter expert, you'll collaborate with multi-functional teams to provide guidance and support in building and growing a team of highly skilled engineers.

What you’ll do

• Lead and mentor a multi-skilled team to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions to support business goals.

• Represent the specialist function in high-level meetings and decision-making processes

• Oversee resource planning and allocation for the specialist function

• Develop and implement policies and procedures for the specialist area

• Lead strategic negotiations with key stakeholders and vendors

• Collaborate with feature teams and third parties to identify and implement creative solutions that align with business objectives.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior architects and developers, leading by example with hands-on coding and problem-solving.

• Monitor and report on project progress, addressing any issues promptly to ensure timely delivery. Identify and mitigate risks to ensure the successful implementation of projects.

• Develop and document processes to improve engineering efficiency and service quality.

• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives, fostering an environment of learning and growth within the team.

• Supervise the maintenance and enhancement of service infrastructure, ensuring its reliability and efficiency.

• Management of Third Party Suppliers to ensure solutions are performant, secure and resilient, and meet bank objectives and client needs.

• Ensure that all engineering activities comply with industry standards and regulations.

What you’ll need

• Software Engineering - Possess a deep understanding of the software lifecycle, ensuring high standards in design, development, testing, and deployment.

• Operational optimisation – Demonstrable experience of optimising Run operations for highly available systems, including control automation, end to end system monitoring and observability

• Service Sustainability & Incident Resolution - demonstrable experience of incident resolution, and root cause identification.

• Technology leadership - Capable of defining and maintaining engineering standards, aligning solutions with business objectives and architectural principles.

• Technology delivery - Provide technology leadership across technical components and complex cross-cutting deliveries spanning multiple platforms and business units.

• Experience of DevOps Pipeline optimisation

• Familiarity with the concept of automated testing and process automation

• Significant experience in delivering technical solutions in an Agile environment.

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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We’d love to hear from you!