Back End Engineering Team Manager

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JOB TITLE: Back End Engineering Team Manager
LOCATION: Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office

Pay Range: £90,400 - £106,400

About this opportunity

We’re looking for a Back End Engineering Team Manager to join our Segments & Propositions Ecosystems Lab in Leeds. We're developing exciting new ecosystems within our Mobile Banking app to deepen relationships with our retail customers. We're at the heart of our Group wide change. We want to provide a seamless digital experience, with the right products and services at our customers’ fingertips, but our face-to-face, telephone and secure messaging remain a vital part of our service.
As an Engineering Team Manager, you'll be responsible for leading feature teams of engineers developing and supporting digital front-end and back-end applications. You’ll help to develop the technical designs of our customer focussed solutions and the plans to deliver them. You’ll actively promote transformation methodology and set technology and change delivery direction in alignment with the bank’s technology strategy, best practices & principles.
Line management will be a key part of this role, helping the engineers in the teams to grow and develop. You’ll also help push the engineering agenda within the wider Lab environment, looking for opportunities to improve and transform the technology we use to build our applications.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Specialising in Back-End Engineering, you will lead a full-stack feature team of back-end engineers and quality engineers with a focus on predictable delivery and engineering excellence.

• Collaborate with fellow leads, solution architects, UI/UX designers, and product owners to define roadmaps, technical designs and unblock delivery.

• Lead by example by being a hands-on contributor to the codebase and providing oversight and feedback via pull requests.

• Demonstrate leadership for mobile architecture and API and micro-service design with deep knowledge in all aspects of Back-End development

• Provide line-management and personal development support for engineering team members

• Develops tactical plans for optimisation of resources and assets being managed within a given area or department.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• An experienced engineering lead background with a recent focus on developing customer facing solutions on a Public Cloud Platform

• Technical thought leadership with evidence of pushing the boundaries of how your organisation delivers great applications

• Experience in end-to-end software delivery using Agile methodologies and DevOps tooling

• Technical know-how in building Java applications using cloud engineering techniques and container environments in particular Docker, Kubernetes and Helm, ideally on GCP.

• The ability to build strong relationships and demonstrate a passion for solving real-world problems with data and technology

• Leadership of mixed technical teams with good mentoring/coaching skills and a real joy for seeing people develop & succeed

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Mobilising teams to deliver new initiatives and projects, ensuring the right mix of roles and responsibilities are in place.

• Hands-on experience of continuous delivery across areas such as code reviewing; understanding of basic App architectures and best practices libraries.

ABOUT WORKING FOR 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

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 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

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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.