End Date
Saturday 14 March 2020
Salary Range
£70,950 - £94,600
We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.
Agile Working Options
Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion
Job Description Summary
Lead a team of Senior Software Engineers to deliver exceptional outcomes.
Job Description
LBG is committed to help Britain prosper and become the best bank for customers. As part of this we’re transforming our digital capability, providing customers with simpler, seamless interactions across online, mobile and branches. LBG digital channels have over 12 million active online customers with over 1 billion logons per year.
Now we want to do more, we now have career opportunities for a driven individual to take on a Lead Software Engineer role. You’ll work with our product partners to deliver business value through sound and fully rounded engineering methods and principles and drive strategic system and process improvements, interventions and upgrades.
You’ll apply Systems Thinking to solve systemic challenges and impediment, support and drive where necessary on key architecture decisions, align the engineering community to follow standards, be a champion of agile ways of working and foster knowledge sharing and collaboration across wider engineering community.
With a passion to take on a leadership role and coach other lead engineers you’ll ensure the appropriate development is in place to make a positive difference to our customers, our colleagues and our communities.
Should be highly experienced in the following:
- Deep and broad understanding of NodeJS plus exposure to least one other language (Java, C#)
- Various testing patterns, frameworks and their roles. Examples like Jest, JUnit, CypressIO, Selenium.
- Build tools like Jenkins2, Nexus, Sonar, GIT.
- Strong experience with delivering production-ready scalable microservices
- Experience with Docker containers and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Exposure to delivering services through Continuous Delivery.
- A good understanding of Systems Thinking.
Desirable:
- Vue
- TypeScript
- Jenkins
- CI/CD
- Eye for design/UX and passionate about improving customer experience
Our vision of being the best bank for customers is dependent on every colleague committing to and demonstrating our core value of "putting customers first". By individually and collectively committing to our Group values and codes, we will be able to make a difference together and help Britain prosper.
At LBG, we’re invested in your continual development. That’s why we’ve fostered a collaborative learning environment that supports your career goals and encourages knowledge-sharing. Our inclusive culture offers you flexibility to try new things while helping you build the future you want.
What will you get in return?
We're genuine about providing a flexible, equal opportunity environment and providing the tools, support and encouragement for all our colleagues to advance in their career and to achieve the best outcomes for our customers. Together we make it possible.
You'll also get
In return you’ll benefit from a competitive salary and market leading benefits package with bonus, contributory pension, medical cover, share schemes and generous holiday entitlement.
We're genuine about providing equal opportunity as well as our people representing the communities we serve and have a culture built around developing and advancing the best of our people.
So if you have the skills we're after and playing a key role in our ongoing support and development appeals then get in touch, we'd love to hear from 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'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.