Lead Software Engineer

End Date Monday 03 November 2025 Salary Range £90,440 - £164,920 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary . Job …...

End Date

Monday 03 November 2025

Salary Range

£90,440 - £164,920

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Lead Software Developer

SALARY: £90,400 - £106,400

LOCATION: Dundee / Edinburgh / Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity:

Our people have the autonomy to incrementally design, engineer, release, and operate one or more technology-enabled services for our customers. We are organised as multidisciplinary teams: the right people with the right expertise all working together for the same outcome.

We are building contemporary, services-driven architecture which creates opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals. We need to simplify and redefine our technology and data landscape. And we need to deliver a set of flexible, future-focused core platform capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future.

As a Lead Software Engineer , you'll play a pivotal role in the future of our product development, shaping the way we design, build, test and deploy using innovative technology. You'll work collaboratively with other team members, partners and third parties to lead empowered teams who are motivated to solve business problems and realise value to customers.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you’ll need

  • Experience providing hands-on technical leadership across the team, taking ownership of engineering quality
  • Experience managing and mentoring a team of engineers, supporting their growth through coaching, feedback, and performance development
  • Strong technical background with expertise in modern software design and development practices
  • Expert knowledge on data integration engineering

And any experience of these would be really useful

  • Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale (GCP, Azure or AWS)
  • Understanding of domain driven design and building event-driven systems
  • Expertise in c#, Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow or Apache Beam
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Active leadership contribution to the wider organisation’s engineering community; helping shape culture, strategy, and cross-team initiatives. 

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  • An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
  • Share schemes including free shares
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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 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.

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