Lead Infrastructure Specialist
| Posting date: | 21 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £107,304 to £126,240 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2026 |
| Location: | London, London, EC2V 7AE |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 154061_1776781420 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Lead Infrastructure Specialist
SALARY: £107,304 - £126,240
LOCATION(S): London
HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week. Please note that this role will require you to be on call outside of normal working hours and there will be an additional on call allowance.
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London office. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
About this opportunity
You'll be part of the z Mainframe Lab, reporting to the Engineering Lead for z Mainframe Hosting, and leading a team of c12 Infrastructure Specialists (CICS Sysprog Engineers and Performance and Capacity Engineers). The z Mainframe Lab are the team that looks after the critical infrastructure that underpins Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG) strategic transactional processing systems, namely the IBM Z Mainframe. The IBM Z Mainframe is Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG) platform of choice for our high-end transactional processing requirements for business units.
We're looking for someone to lead, inspire and develop a team of backend engineers. You'll drive a strategic effort to improve the agility, pace of operations and cost, of our z Mainframe Lab for LBG. The services you'll help lead, develop, and operate are at the core of our infrastructure and require high quality while moving fast to keep up with our customers' needs. This is an exciting time to join the z Mainframe team! We're investing heavily in transformation activities which you'll directly be involved in!
What you'll be doing
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Team leadership of roughly 12 -17 engineers including personal development and day to day task & demand management. This will take up about 30% of your time!
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Working with stakeholders to translate technical incidents into non-technical language
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Incident, Change and Problem Management
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Risk Management & controls
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Supporting service improvements, applying Agile methods and working using JIRA and Jira Align toolsets
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Driving backlog prioritisation of tasks and managing capacity within the team
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Planning & supporting decommissioning & system upgrade activity
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Acting as the technical point of contact for the team, developing and leading engineering product evolution in the z Mainframe lab.
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Support the Engineering Lead.
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Talent Management - Supporting our growing talent hires as they develop.
Why join us?
We're transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey.
What we're looking for?
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Experienced in both operational and line management/ talent development of a small to medium sized team of Engineers.
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Background working in the z Mainframe sector and engineering experience with relevant technical concepts for z Mainframe Middleware technologies.
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Experience in a technical leadership position, working at a senior level.
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We're growing! We're focused on growing the talent in our team and need someone passionate about supporting, mentoring & motivating our teams!
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If you have a financial services background or experience working within a regulated environment that would be beneficial.
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you
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 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
Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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