Overview
Enterprise Infrastructure Lead role within the Enterprise Lab in Core Infrastructure. You will lead engineering teams responsible for enterprise-class infrastructure, ensuring resilience, security and regulatory compliance while modernising and simplifying the platform estate. The role sits at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group’s infrastructure, processing high-value, customer-critical transactions in a highly regulated environment. This is a leadership role combining technical stewardship with people leadership, platform strategy and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineering teams responsible for the enterprise-class infrastructure, setting clear technical direction and fostering a strong engineering culture.
- Own the technical integrity, availability, resilience and security of enterprise platforms supporting the Bank.
- Define and execute platform and infrastructure strategies, including hardware refresh, software currency, resilience improvements and decommissioning 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
- Strong hands-on understanding of mainframe or midrange platforms (e.g., Unisys, IBM Z, Non-Stop, or equivalent critically important estates).
- Ownership of platform strategy, lifecycle management and technical roadmaps.
- Experience managing complex change and incident scenarios, including senior stakeholder engagement.
- Solid understanding of resilience, security, and operational risk within financial services or comparable regulated industries.
- Experience with Unisys systems is desirable.
- Experience in financial services, payments, mortgages, or core banking environments is advantageous.
- Hardware refreshes or large-scale technology transformation programmes experience.
Benefits and Additional Information
- Generous pension contribution up to 15%.
- Annual performance-related bonus.
- Share schemes including free shares.
- Flexible benefits to support your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
- Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
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