We’re back with our recently neglected Job of the Week slot (feel free to send us tips!) It’s a Head of Engineering role at a Lloyds Banking Bank that is pushing ahead with its transformation – an exciting time to get involved.
The salary range is £140,216 - £164,960, so triple that of some poor public sector CIOs (American readers look away or weep) and is described as “Head of Engineering - Consumer Servicing & Engagement Platform.”
The job description sounds like the start of every vanilla “digital transformation” Ted Talk of recent years, but no less compelling for that.
“We're on the journey to simplify and modernise our tech stack and innovate using new technologies. We're keen to move towards our target state with a cloud first (private and public) approach in our hosting strategy and to transform our systems from monolith to microservices whilst decommissioning our legacy estate" – LLoyds
Head of Engineering, Lloyds role is hybrid
It’s 40% in London (two days per week minimum) and 60% remote, with 30 days of holiday and Bank Holidays on top and a good pension.
The bank wants someone who can “understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt”. You will ultimately be “accountable for the engineering teams that will design, build, integrate, deploy, and run… software that supports the business and operations, with a focus on resilience, low latency, reusability, accessibility by third parties as well as scalability.”
The successful candidate will also:
- "Establish a Cloud centre of excellence to promote best practices and maturity across the Platform."
- "Establish a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability within the Platform"
Where Lloyds Banking Group owns 16 brands including Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Scottish Widows, Schroders Personal Wealth and more. It has some 63,000 staff and 26 million customers. It has invested some £3 billion between 2022-2024 on digital and organisational transformation.
Lloyds made more than 2,500 hires in technology and data roles in 2023, and added more talent including at the executive level in 2024, hiring the likes of new Group Head of AI Rohit Dhawan, an AWS veteran who recently posted that the bank has a "comprehensive generative AI strategy that is driving execution momentum. We have more than a hundred initiatives across the board at various stages of development..."
Its transformation is being led by respected former ING CIO and CTO Ron van Kemenade, who has the Chief Operating Officer position at Lloyds.
The bank's annual report says: “We have completed a senior leadership development programme centered around the organisational shifts we need in order to successfully execute our strategy. We are transforming our change process in the pursuit of increased efficiency and responsiveness. Since the start of our strategy we have decommissioned more than 400 legacy technology applications and more than doubled the number of APIs we have created as we continue to migrate onto cloud-based platforms.” ..
You can apply for the role at Lloyds here. Applications close Dec. 20.
