Enterprise Infrastructure Lead

Job Title

Enterprise Infrastructure Lead

Location

Manchester

Hours & Working Pattern

Full‑time – 35 hours per week. Hybrid: at least two days per week, or 40% of time, at the Manchester office.

Salary

£92,701 – £109,060 per year

Job Summary

You will lead engineering teams that design, build, run and modernise Unisys‑based infrastructure for Lloyds Banking Group, ensuring resilience, security, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop engineering teams responsible for enterprise‑class infrastructure, setting clear technical direction and fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Own the technical integrity, availability, resilience and security of these enterprise platforms.
• Define and execute platform and infrastructure strategies, including hardware refresh, software currency, resilience improvements and de‑commissioning activity.
• Act as a senior technical authority for infrastructure platforms, providing deep expertise during incidents, change design, risk management and assurance activities.
• Lead major change initiatives, ensuring high‑quality change execution through CAB, effective risk assessment, and robust implementation planning.
• Partner closely with application teams, architects, security, service and suppliers to enable safe delivery of change and continuous improvement.
• Drive simplification, automation and operational efficiency where appropriate, while understanding the challenges of enterprise platforms.
• Support financial management for the platform, including forecasting, cost control and supplier oversight.
• Develop capability within your teams through coaching, mentoring, skills development and succession planning.

Qualifications

• Leading engineering teams accountable for enterprise‑level infrastructure in a regulated, high‑availability setting.
• Strong hands‑on understanding of mainframe or midrange platforms (e.g. Unisys, IBM Z, Non‑Stop or equivalent). Experience in those systems is particularly valuable.
• Ownership of platform strategy, lifecycle management and technical roadmaps.
• Experience managing complex change and incident scenarios, including senior collaborator engagement.
• Solid understanding of resilience, security and operational risk within financial services or comparable regulated industries.
• Experience with Unisys systems, financial services, payments, mortgages or core banking environments is desirable.
• Experience with hardware refreshes or large‑scale technology transformation programmes.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual performance‑related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Adaptable benefits such as discounted shopping and lifestyle options.
• 30 days of holiday with bank holidays, and generous parental leave policies.
• Wellbeing initiatives and a supportive workplace culture.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcoming applicants from diverse backgrounds. All positions are advertised open to all qualified candidates.

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