Engineering Lead
- Edinburgh
- £90,440-106,400 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
About Us: Core Platforms is on a journey to build the bank of the future and simplify our operational processes. As part of Platform 3.0, we have established four key labs: Enterprise Delivery for ECM and EIS, Central Test Environment Team, BAU Support, and Hub for Pega and CRM. These labs are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and maintaining operational excellence across our platforms.
We lead, prioritize, and deliver change across all Group Business Units – Consumer Relationships, Consumer Lending, Insurance & Wealth, and Business, Commercial, Corporate & Institutional Banking by engaging directly with Business areas and Platforms, understanding their needs, and delivering change in an agile way, safely releasing value for our Customers and Colleagues.
Our vision is to provide the Bank with cloud-hosted, transformational technology solutions that remain evergreen. We aim to maximize operational efficiency and performance through process automation, whilst enhancing both customer and user experience.
We're delivering against our vision and this success means our products and services are in greater demand. We continue to grow year on year, so much that we now need a FileNet Engineering Lead to help us achieve our vision, with a specific focus on Cloud transformation and AI Initiative.Role Overview: The FileNet Engineering Lead is responsible for driving strategic planning, compliance, data governance, and technical leadership within the enterprise content management domain. This role focuses on optimizing FileNet platform capabilities to support business operations, ensuring security, and mentoring engineering talent.Job DescriptionJOB TITLE: Engineering LeadSALARY: £90,440 - £106,400LOCATION(S): EdinburghHOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per weekWORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office.About this opportunityCore Platforms is on a journey to build the bank of the future and simplify our operational processes. As part of Platform 3.0, we have established four key labs: Enterprise Delivery for ECM and EIS, Central Test Environment Team, BAU Support, and Hub for Pega and CRM. These labs are dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and maintaining operational excellence across our platforms.We lead, prioritize, and deliver change across all Group Business Units – Consumer Relationships, Consumer Lending, Insurance & Wealth, and Business, Commercial, Corporate & Institutional Banking by engaging directly with Business areas and Platforms, understanding their needs, and delivering change in an agile way, safely releasing value for our Customers and Colleagues.Our vision is to provide the Bank with cloud-hosted, transformational technology solutions that remain evergreen. We aim to maximize operational efficiency and performance through process automation, whilst enhancing both customer and user experience.We're delivering against our vision and this success means our products and services are in greater demand. We continue to grow year on year, so much that we now need a FileNet Engineering Lead to help us achieve our vision, with a specific focus on Cloud transformation and AI Initiative.What you’ll doThe FileNet Engineering Lead is responsible for driving strategic planning, compliance, data governance, and technical leadership within the enterprise content management domain.This role focuses on optimizing FileNet platform capabilities to support business operations, ensuring security, and mentoring engineering talent.Why Lloyds Banking GroupWe’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!Skills we're looking for:Someone who is energized about shaping the strategic direction of our Enterprise Delivery - ECM team. We want someone that understands we're all human and can keep this at the forefront of their mind, building a truly supportive and collaborative team.Future-focused, genuinely interested in staying abreast of the latest technologies, tools, and techniques in AI, machine learning, and software engineering.Able to effectively communicate ideas, issues, and implications through storytelling and simplify messages into clear, concise communications that colleagues and senior leaders can understand, gaining advocacy and cooperation to enable a successful outcome.Great people management skills, including being comfortable managing large engineering teams (50 FTE upwards) is essential. Ideally, this should be cross-locational (UK/India) and include permanent, partners, contractors, and vendors.Provide technical guidance and direction, as well as firsthand support, to the software engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement.Familiar with supporting service and implementations, including out-of-hours working.What you’ll needAgile Product Delivery: experience of Product delivery in line with Platform 3.0, with Jira and Jira-align, but more than this, we want you to be a fully engaged role model for the area.Applied experience of delivery in at least one of or specialist software such as IBM (Data-power, Message Broker, or FileNet), Microsoft (MS 365) where relevant with associated certification.Experience with Cloud software solutions and databases.Experience with FileNet applications and Cloud Pak for Business Automation on the OpenShift platform.About working for usOur ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:A generous pension contribution of up to 15%An annual performance-related bonusShare schemes including free sharesBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on topA range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policiesAt 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.