Finance Technology Platform Lead - Bristol, United Kingdom - Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group

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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

End Date

Thursday 27 July 2023

Agile Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description:

About us

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.

What you'll need

Essential

To create the new, to challenge, to be brave and to establish a future that is very different both in structure and in how we serve our customers
Extensive experience and technical engineering knowledge and implementation of a broad range of platforms (such as hosting choices including Cloud (GCP/Azure/AWS/ICP/OCP) plus experience of Containers and building containerbased platforms i.e., Docker and platform roadmaps
Be technology agnostic and willing to adapt your approach in pursuit of the best solution. Enabled by an excellent knowledge and understanding of multiple engineering & software design solutions (including but not limited to microservices and APIs, platform management as well as building and scaling secure APIs for internal and external consumption), data driven design, devsecops, quality engineering and automation)
Deliver the extraordinary through building a committed leadership team, acting as a natural valuesled role model, to build and inspire a diverse workforce. Engage at all levels, creating a 'people first' culture and communicate vision, direction and ideas
Significant experience of leading teams using agile techniques development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, OKRs/GBRs to prioritise work for value creation linked to the business mission. This includes multi facets of value creation such as customer attraction or retention, income creation, risk avoidance, improvements in ongoing costs, technical debt investment & resilience activity to improve speed to market
Accountable for ensuring all decisions are made within a sound risk framework, ensuring resilience and within Group standards and appetite

Desirable

Set the vision, a clear directive and strategic roadmap for technology activities to demonstrate value and to promote quality of technical delivery
Drive resilience, simplification, modernisation and the use of new technologies to create agility through the architecture
Well versed in technical architecture principles and comfortable taking a lead in this and platform development
Expansive experience in systems architecture and integration with suppliers and in running large monolith and sophisticated technical ecosystems
Deep Engineering Experience including Agile, DevOps, Cloud, modern tool chains and other contemporary software delivery practices
Exceptional leader with a passion for team development, creating an impactful team with the skills to coach colleagues through change and empower from the top.
Drive a culture of learning and continuous improvement influenced by standard methodology. Play a direct role in supporting and pioneering Engineering Chapters, guilds and community activities

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.

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%
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
Holidays, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose.

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.

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