Cloud Technology Strategist - London, United Kingdom - Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

End Date

Monday 11 March 2024

Salary Range

£149,872 - £176,320

Agile Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Job Description:

JOB TITLE: Cloud Technology Strategist
SALARY: The salary banding for this role in London is £149,872 £176,320 and for Outside London is £ £142,380.
LOCATION: London, Edinburgh, Leeds or Manchester
HOURS: 35 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 one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
This is an opportunity for a leader who is enthusiastic about infrastructure, cloud, and engineering technologies to deliver business value in a pivotal position within the Group. An individual with a solid sense of ownership and integrity who enjoys working and collaborating with teams across the Group and who has strong values and clear purpose.
In conjunction with Enabling Platform owners and senior partners across the Bank, they will build, evolve, and promote clear and comprehensive technology strategies that align with Group strategy and enable business teams to deliver the best customer outcomes. They are accountable for continually influencing, challenging, and supporting the Enabling Platform teams to build and align their strategic roadmaps, alongside acting as the voice of the customer and facing into all the Business Platforms to enable delivery of the business roadmaps, guiding Cloud product delivery.
You'll collaborate with key internal customers to build, maintain and evangelise clear and integrated technology strategies. You'll be analysing the needs of our business partners to understand the modern technology platform capabilities and improvements that they need to deliver effectively and efficiently for their customers.
Building and sustaining strong and productive partnerships with platforms and functions, promoting, communicating, and evangelising the Bank's strategies. Building relationships with third party vendors and cloud service providers, acting as a senior partner to help them evolve their products and services to better meet the needs and strategies of large enterprise customers such as the Group.
Identifying, creating, and prioritising multiskilled squads to support strategy activities, managing and building their capacity and capabilities as the organisation transitions from Traditional IT to a hybrid

- and public cloud-first approach. Lead improvements through the Agile project lifecycle. Identifying projects at risk and taking action to recover.

Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need

An open, collaborative, approachable and friendly style, working well with both senior and junior colleagues, building strong relationships, and breaking down barriers.
You'll love multitasking, switching between different activities and responsibilities throughout your day.
Solid understanding of traditional onpremises technologies as well as proven modern cloud technology delivery.
Communication and relationship building skills to work collaboratively to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
Proven success in establishing a culture of continuous improvement and driving innovation.
Strong influencer: able to successfully manage key partners, prioritise and justify the right set of business problems.
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.
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
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