Tech Lead Java Engineer

You'll work within our Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) division, within the Client Servicing & Engagement (CSE) platform.

Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services that millions of customers across the UK rely upon, day-to-day and especially in their time of need.

It means a big opportunity for you to be part of ground-breaking transformation and it means there's never been a more exciting time to join!

This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate to join us as a Lead Engineer working across a small number of cross-disciplinary feature teams providing engineering leadership that spans the full stack in support of our continued journey onto Public Cloud (Azure / GCP).

You'll be passionate about designing and delivering scalable applications and have tangible views on how to best exploit public cloud capabilities.

This role will be pivotal in transforming legacy systems into cloud native distributed applications.

This is a key time in our journey, and we're seeking people who enjoy the opportunity to shape the direction and success of a team and lead on delivering some initiatives.

With our breadth, reach and diversity, we can offer excellent opportunities for career growth and development, and we are looking for people who can seize those opportunities.

You'll get plenty of support but it's about taking the initiative, building relationships, and making it happen. Do this and you can help us make a positive difference to our customers, our colleagues, and our communities!

What you'll do

Writing modular, well tested web applications that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale.

Ensuring software is built in a way which is consistent with - and exploits where possible - the collective frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider Engineering community.

Understand and apply industry best practices, foster knowledge sharing to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate.

Relentless focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles.

You'll be solving technical problems, working alongside solution architects to define the architectural designs.

Diving deep on current monolith applications with a view on progressive modernisation and will guide engineers to make informed design choices to address architectural level concerns like scalability, security, reliability, and performance as we continue our transition to a cloud native based set of applications.

Demonstrate full stack engineering expertise.

Strong experience of Java and experience of microservice frameworks such as Springboot.

Strong experience of micro-front end and micro-service Api design, event driven architecture.

Strong experience of RESTful APIs and web services.

Strong understanding of source code repositories and change management tools, Git.

Experience of working with Docker or other containerisation technologies.

Experience of successfully implementing and using CI / CD pipelines.

Knowledge of agile development practices and test automation (Unit / Integration / E2E testing Jest / Testing Library / Cucumber / Cypress).

Experience with build processes and release automation (Azure / GCP Pipelines, Nexus).

Familiarity with development aiding tools such as npm and webpack etc. is advantageous.

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you., 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.