Lead Software Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and passionate software engineer to lead our approach to delivering modern applications. As a member of the leadership team you will be a hands-on technician, building and designing cloud native software and improving traditional software. This will include writing code, designing microservice based applications and taking part in the full application delivery lifecycle. You'll focus on constantly improving and building upon the engineering capabilities of the teams delivering improvements and maintaining focus on genuine technical excellence. We are transforming and modernising our applications moving from traditional VM hosting to container based hosting and your expertise and guidance will be critical in this success of this mission. You will lead the technical migration of applications to the new public cloud environment, prioritising engineering best practices and thorough testing to ensure correctness and reduce risk. You'll be working in a modern, collaborative agile environment where a culture of learning and continual improvement is key. Using the scale of Lloyds Banking Group you get access to great tooling and support including Pluralsight subscriptions, and Enterprise MSDN subscriptions.

• A strong Engineering background with significant commercial experience building, testing and deploying applications, with expert skills in the Microsoft .net Stack and C# in particular and experience in prioritising the delivery of working software.
• A combination of great technical and communication skills. Able to effectively communicate with customers, senior managers and engineers. A passion for setting technical direction and practices.
• A clear understanding of DevOps approaches and expertise with the tools that are used to support this such as CI/CD pipelines and source control tools such as git.
• Expert in hands on software engineering - including full stack development, API creation and resolving production issues.
• A passion for continually improving. This will involve a strong desire to continually learn and evolve your own skills but also those in the engineering teams and the practices that the teams use.
• Experience in traditional Windows server and client application hosting and deployment as well as modern approaches to containerising workloads and deploying to the public cloud.
  
  Insurance Pensions and Investments has a vision to improve the support we provide to our customers throughout their financial lives, empowering them to make the right decisions on their long-term saving, investment, and retirement needs. We do this by providing clear, straightforward customer journeys, supported by flexible and resilient product platforms and services., 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…, Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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.

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