Lloyds Banking Group
Location
Edinburgh | United Kingdom
Job description
JOB TITLE: Head of Technical Delivery
SALARY: £111,469 - £131,140
LOCATIONS: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh location.
About this opportunity:
We are looking for a Head of Technical Delivery who will lead delivery of change to our Protection platform. Come join us, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand-new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team - come make us even better.
As Head of Technical Delivery, you will be accountable for overall delivery of our two labs and their technical interdependencies:
Working with our internal teams, partners, and the rest of our business to co-ordinate change delivery on the platform - managing releases and ensuring that the release process with our partners is seamless.
Align with the Engineering Leads and Technical Delivery Managers of each lab to ensure the quality of the platform is to standard through delivery of automated acceptance testing services while continuously improving platform maturity. There is significant opportunity here to improve our automation capability, specifically on Quality Engineering, DevOps and Release Management.
Ensuring that the platform is operationally managed and meets the technology standards we require, including SLA monitoring, risk management, and controls.
Driving improvements in ways of working within the two labs to promote agility and continually improve how we jointly run and deliver change across the platform.
What you'll need
Proven track record in engaging & developing strong relationships with 3rd parties at all levels of the hierarchy.
Large scale change delivery expertise with skills that include planning, resourcing, budgeting, risk & issue management.
Extensive knowledge and experience of the Software Delivery Life Cycle with a desire to improve flow and increase pace through continual learning and incremental improvements.
Strong and demonstrable experience of managing technical service and security.
Well versed in technical architecture principles and deep experience of systems architecture and integration (including with third parties) and skilled at ensuring we Evergreen modern technology.
Skilled at data driven decision making to explain the why to a number of audiences.
Detailed knowledge of software design, build and release management.
Skilled and effective at building capability at an individual and team level. Managing reskilling, upskilling, and planning future demand/ recruitment/ early careers usage in a way that makes best use of available budgets and balances the future need with the immediate need.
Significant experience of leading and empowering teams using agile development methods and tooling. Able to inspire and engage at all levels through a focus on a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust across the team. Demonstrate thought leadership on contemporary technical delivery across the entire lifecycle from ideal to realisation of value, using sophisticated problem solving to push the solutions and remove the blockers.
Experienced collaborator. Confirmed ability to influence multiple internal and external relationships (suppliers, regulators etc) to ensure progression of key business decisions. Adept communication skills to communicate complex messages and tell a compelling story - using these skills to anticipate challenge to resolve complex issues and conflicting requirements.
Experience of driving a focus on all risk, governance, conduct and control requirements and of using the context of these in decision making around technology.
Providing a data focused approach, using analytics and insight to make evidence-based decisions that explain the 'why'.
Strong commercial competence and the ability to effectively assess choices to achieve the best outcomes for Customers.
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.
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£111.47k - £131.14k per annum
