Engineering Lead
| Posting date: | 04 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £90,440 to £106,400 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 September 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH11 4DT |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 139086_1756979005 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Engineering Lead
SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week
WORKING 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 opportunity
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.
What you'll do
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The FileNet Engineering Lead is responsible for driving strategic planning, compliance, data governance, and technical leadership within the enterprise content management domain.
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This role focuses on optimizing FileNet platform capabilities to support business operations, ensuring security, and mentoring engineering talent.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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!
Skills we're looking for:
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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.
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Future-focused, genuinely interested in staying abreast of the latest technologies, tools, and techniques in AI, machine learning, and software engineering.
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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.
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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.
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Provide technical guidance and direction, as well as firsthand support, to the software engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement.
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Familiar with supporting service and implementations, including out-of-hours working.
What you'll need
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Agile 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.
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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.
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Experience with Cloud software solutions and databases.
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Experience with FileNet applications and Cloud Pak for Business Automation on the OpenShift platform.
About working for us
Our 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:
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A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
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An annual performance-related bonus
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Share schemes including free shares
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Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
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30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
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A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme