Engineering Lead

Leeds Wellington Place

Full time

Posted Today

152058

End Date

Wednesday 27 May 2026

Salary Range

£84,624 - £126,936

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE : Engineering Lead

SALARY: £85,000 - £100,000

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location

About this opportunity

We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Prudential & Analytics Platform to drive delivery of our new Model Risk Management tool and lead the transformation of our commercial model monitoring capabilities. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping our end to end engineering approach - modernising and scaling the platforms that underpin critical modelling, oversight, and regulatory processes across the Group.

This is a high impact leadership role where you will guide engineering teams, set technical direction, and build cloud native, automated, and resilient solutions using modern data, cloud, and DevOps technologies.impact leadership role where you will guide engineering teams, set technical direction, and build cloud native, automated, and resilient solutions using modern data, cloud, and DevOps technologies.

What you'll do

You'll oversee the engineering strategy and buildout of a modern Model Risk Management platform - enabling model owners, reviewers, and governance teams to manage model lifecycle, documentation, controls, and oversight.

You'll lead the redesign and automation of the commercial model monitoring solution, bringing modern cloud patterns, observability, and GCP native tooling into the heart of our analytics ecosystem.

Across these workstreams, you'll

Provide hands on technical leadership to feature teams

Guide architectural decisions, engineering standards, and cloud patterns

Lead delivery planning, prioritisation, and alignment across teams and stakeholders

Mentor engineers, championing high quality engineering practices

Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Risk, and Architecture teams

Drive automation, CI/CD, and best practice DevOps across delivery

Ensure solutions are robust, compliant, and meet operational and regulatory expectations.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you'll need

Significant engineering leadership experience in software/data engineering, with leadership responsibilities.

Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform, ideally including: BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, Logs Explorer, Data Catalog.

Strong experience building and leading development of model monitoring, analytical platforms, or data intensive workflows.

Proficiency in Python and SQL, with the ability to guide engineering standards.

Experience leading teams using dbt (Data Build Tool) for modelling and transformation.

Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automation, ideally using Harness.

Experience delivering solutions via Docker, Kubernetes, and modern orchestration patterns.

Background in building scalable, secure, and observable cloud capabilities.

Any of the following would be great to see

Experience working in regulated environments, model risk tooling, or governance workflows.

Knowledge of model lifecycle management, monitoring, validation, or model oversight.

Experience migrating complex legacy analytics systems into cloud native architectures.

Understanding of infrastructureascode (Terraform, Deployment Manager.)

Knowledge of distributed data systems or streaming architectures.

Experience leading distributed teams.

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.