Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ
Lloyds Banking Group - Leeds, West Yorkshire
£70,929 to £78,810 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810 LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh, Manchester, or Leeds office. About this opportunity This is an exciting time to join our z/OS MQ team. We're at a pivotal point in our transformation, evolving from a traditional infrastructure function into a forward-thinking engineering team focused on automation, simplification, service excellence and innovation. We're looking for passionate, creative individuals with deep MQ expertise who want to help shape the future roadmap for messaging on the mainframe. In this role, you'll provide highly specialised technical support across critical mainframe environments while contributing to the strategic direction of our MQ platform. You'll help maintain, modernise and evolve our services in line with Group standards, as well as helping drive the adoption of modern engineering practices, DevOps principles and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities. You'll help to connect and integrate MQ with a range of modern technologies while ensuring our customers continue to receive resilient, secure and reliable services. Additionally, you'll provide technical expertise for incident and problem resolution within complex environments, including participation in out-of-hours support and delivery activities when required. What you'll do Provide technical leadership and support for complex MQ environments operating to demanding service levels. Help shape the strategic roadmap for z/OS MQ, influencing the future direction of our platform and engineering capabilities. Work closely with key stakeholders and customers to drive and deliver against the technology roadmap, ensuring service and customer outcomes remain at the heart of everything we do. Support the adoption of modern engineering practices, including automation, DevOps and continuous improvement initiatives. Collaborate across middleware, infrastructure and engineering teams to explore and implement innovative solutions, integrating mainframe technologies with emerging platforms and capabilities. Promote standardisation, simplification and operational excellence while ensuring processes and controls are adhered to. Why Lloyds Banking Group We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you! What you'll need Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on z/OS. Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning, diagnosis and problem resolution. Experience supporting and troubleshooting business-critical online systems. Experience working with Transport Layer Security (TLS). An interest in driving innovation, automation and the evolution of mainframe technologies. It would be great if you also had Experience or a keen interest in DevOps practices, automation and modern engineering approaches. An interest in AI and emerging technologies, and how they can be applied to improve engineering effectiveness and customer outcomes. Strong diagnostic skills and the ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, providing effective solutions in complex environments. About working for us Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus 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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Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ
Lloyds Banking Group - Edinburgh, Edinburgh
£70,929 to £78,810 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810 LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh, Manchester, or Leeds office. About this opportunity This is an exciting time to join our z/OS MQ team. We're at a pivotal point in our transformation, evolving from a traditional infrastructure function into a forward-thinking engineering team focused on automation, simplification, service excellence and innovation. We're looking for passionate, creative individuals with deep MQ expertise who want to help shape the future roadmap for messaging on the mainframe. In this role, you'll provide highly specialised technical support across critical mainframe environments while contributing to the strategic direction of our MQ platform. You'll help maintain, modernise and evolve our services in line with Group standards, as well as helping drive the adoption of modern engineering practices, DevOps principles and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities. You'll help to connect and integrate MQ with a range of modern technologies while ensuring our customers continue to receive resilient, secure and reliable services. Additionally, you'll provide technical expertise for incident and problem resolution within complex environments, including participation in out-of-hours support and delivery activities when required. What you'll do Provide technical leadership and support for complex MQ environments operating to demanding service levels. Help shape the strategic roadmap for z/OS MQ, influencing the future direction of our platform and engineering capabilities. Work closely with key stakeholders and customers to drive and deliver against the technology roadmap, ensuring service and customer outcomes remain at the heart of everything we do. Support the adoption of modern engineering practices, including automation, DevOps and continuous improvement initiatives. Collaborate across middleware, infrastructure and engineering teams to explore and implement innovative solutions, integrating mainframe technologies with emerging platforms and capabilities. Promote standardisation, simplification and operational excellence while ensuring processes and controls are adhered to. Why Lloyds Banking Group We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you! What you'll need Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on z/OS. Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning, diagnosis and problem resolution. Experience supporting and troubleshooting business-critical online systems. Experience working with Transport Layer Security (TLS). An interest in driving innovation, automation and the evolution of mainframe technologies. It would be great if you also had Experience or a keen interest in DevOps practices, automation and modern engineering approaches. An interest in AI and emerging technologies, and how they can be applied to improve engineering effectiveness and customer outcomes. Strong diagnostic skills and the ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, providing effective solutions in complex environments. About working for us Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus 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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Senior Solution Architect
Lloyds Banking Group - Edinburgh, Edinburgh
£92,701 to £109,060 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
JOB TITLE: Senior Solution Architect (API Lab) SALARY: £92,701 - £109,060 LOCATION(S): Edinburgh HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office site. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy. About this opportunity At Lloyds Banking Group, we're helping Britain prosper by transforming the way technology enables our customers, colleagues, and businesses. Through strategic investment in cloud platforms, modern engineering, automation, and digital services, we're creating scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms that power some of the UK's most critical financial journeys The API & Digital Services Platform is a strategic engineering capability within Lloyds Banking Group, enabling the creation, management, discovery, governance, and consumption of APIs at enterprise scale. Within the platform, the API Lab is responsible for delivering the strategic API ecosystem that supports thousands of engineers across the Group. The Lab enables teams to design, build, publish, secure, discover, consume, and operate APIs consistently and safely, while accelerating innovation and reducing duplication. The API Lab is responsible for four strategic product domains: API Gateway - Enterprise API runtime and management capabilities across on-premises and cloud environments. API Marketplace - The Group's strategic platform for API discovery, onboarding, subscription, and reuse. API Conformance Suite - Automated API governance, standards validation, compliance, quality engineering, and policy enforcement capabilities. API Enablement Platform - Developer self-service, engineering automation, Internal Developer Platform (IDP), and API lifecycle acceleration capabilities Together, these capabilities support the API Lab's long-term vision of delivering a scalable, secure, resilient, highly automated, and developer-centric API ecosystem that accelerates innovation while maintaining strong governance, security, and operational excellence What you'll be doing Define and own solution architecture across the API Lab portfolio. Develop strategic architecture roadmaps aligned with business priorities and enterprise technology strategy. Drive architectural consistency across multiple products, teams, and engineering domains. Influence platform-wide decisions that impact thousands of developers across the Group. Shape long-term investment priorities and technology direction. Promote modern engineering practices and cloud-native design principles. Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to align strategy, architecture, and delivery. Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the organisation. Champion innovation while ensuring solutions remain secure, resilient, supportable, and compliant. Why join us? We're transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey. What we're looking for? Significant experience in Solution Architecture within large-scale enterprise environments. Proven track record delivering complex platform and digital transformation initiatives. Experience defining architecture strategy across multiple products and technology domains. Deep expertise in enterprise API ecosystems. Strong understanding of API operating models, governance, and lifecycle management. Experience influencing senior business and technology stakeholders. Strong knowledge of Architecture & Design (e.g. TOGAF, Domain-Driven Design) Strong knowledge and practical experience of: GCP Harness Apigee KONG Developer Portal API Ecosystem Security SRE We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply. This is a place for you Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus 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 Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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Senior Finance Manager
Lloyds Banking Group - Edinburgh, Edinburgh
£85,493 to £100,580 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
JOB TITLE: Senior Finance Manager - Legal Entity & Securitisation Control & Reporting SALARY: £85,493 - £100,580 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 one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy. About this opportunity This is a senior leadership role responsible for high-quality legal entity, statutory and securitisation control and reporting. You'll lead teams covering subsidiary statutory accounts, legal entity governance, and securitisation reporting bringing together annual reporting, month-end control and longer-term transformation. You'll combine strong delivery with inclusive leadership and shape a simpler, more scalable operation through technology, data, automation and robust controls. What you'll be doing Lead and develop managers and colleagues across Legal Entity, Statutory Reporting, & Securitisation, Own the statutory reporting cycle across a broad subsidiary portfolio, including planning, tracking, review, audit co-ordination, Board support, filing and lessons learned. Provide senior oversight of monthly, quarterly and annual accounting and reporting for securitisation vehicles. Lead legal entity governance, including entity data, attestations, reporting submissions, tagging, liquidations and ledger clean-up. Own and strengthen the control environment, including account ownership, substantiation, control documentation, risk assessment, QAR activity and escalation. Build trusted relationships with auditors, Company Secretariat, directors, Treasury, Finance Valuation Control, Tax, External Reporting and Regulatory Reporting. Provide technical oversight for complex instruments, transactions, valuations and reporting judgements. Drive statutory reporting improvement and wider transformation through standardisation, automation and AI. Why join us? We're transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey. What we're looking for We're looking for a senior finance leader who combines technical credibility, sound judgement, inclusive people leadership and a practical transformation mindset. You don't need to meet every point to apply. Essential experience and capabilities A recognised accountancy qualification or equivalent senior-level technical accounting experience. Strong statutory or external reporting, audit and financial control experience. Experience leading managers and diverse teams through demanding delivery cycles and change. Sound judgement on complex legal entity, securitisation, capital or valuation matters. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. And any experience of these would be really useful Securitisation, SPVs, iXBRL tagging or regulatory submissions experience. Legal entity simplification, control transformation, Workiva or technology-enabled reporting improvement. We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply. About working for us Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus 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 Ready to make an impact? Apply today!
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Lloyds Living External Reporting & Advisory Assistant Manager
Lloyds Banking Group - Edinburgh, Edinburgh
£44,901 to £49,890 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
JOB TITLE: Lloyds Living External Reporting & Advisory Assistant Manager SALARY: £44,901 - £49,890 LOCATION(S): 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 office. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy. About this opportunity We have an opportunity for an experienced Finance colleague to join us at our Princess Exchange office in Edinburgh to join our Lloyds Living External Reporting & Advisory team. As a part or fully qualified accountant you will join to support the delivery of internal and external reporting requirements for our Lloyds Living division. We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate who leverages new technology to improve processes and brings their insight to help shape our future ways of working. Day to day you'll be: Identifying shortcomings in existing processes, systems and procedures, then using established change management programmes to deliver prescribed outcomes and/or provide support services. Working independently to process complex data using established procedures and testing new procedures to see if they might represent improvements over existing methods. Organising and preparing complex documents by using multiple applications (such as Power Apps), while also gathering and summarising data for special reports. Completing financial control procedures and interrogating the reported monthly figures. Tracking progress and reporting variances to more senior colleagues while working within established finance systems. Performing independent research on emerging accounting standards and presenting findings to senior colleagues. Why Lloyds Banking Group 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 You'll be a Part Qualified or Fully Qualified Accountant. Experience of either financial control, statutory or regulatory reporting. Experience of working within a fast-paced environment. And any experience of these would be really useful Experience of Financial Reporting within Residential Property market. About working for us Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus Share schemes including free shares Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We'd love to hear from you!
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Senior Solution Architect (Mobile)
Lloyds Banking Group - Bristol, Bristol
£92,701 to £109,060 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
Senior Solution Architect (Mobile) LOCATION(S): Bristol SALARY: £92,701 - £109,060 HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Bristol office. About this opportunity We're looking for a Senior Solution Architect to help shape the future of our mobile technology landscape. This is a senior architecture role where you'll define and orchestrate complex solution architectures that support strategic business outcomes and align with our wider technology strategy. You'll work across product, engineering and architecture teams to provide a clear technical direction, helping delivery teams move faster by resolving architectural complexity early and ensuring solutions are secure, resilient and scalable. You'll play a key role in shaping the architecture roadmap for our mobile platforms, influencing decisions that impact customer experience, engineering effectiveness and long-term technology sustainability. Key responsibilities include: Leading the end-to-end solution architecture for complex mobile initiatives, ensuring designs support customer, business and technology objectives. Creating architecture roadmaps, solution designs and technical options that enable delivery teams to make informed decisions and deliver at pace. Working with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and Enterprise Architects to align strategic priorities, dependencies and delivery plans. Embedding secure-by-design and resilient-by-design principles into mobile solutions from discovery through to live service. Identifying and managing architectural risks, technical debt and cross-platform dependencies while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health. Driving the adoption of common patterns, reusable capabilities and engineering standards across mobile teams. Why Lloyds Banking Group Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing in our people, technology and data is at the heart of our strategy to become a stronger, more innovative organisation that delivers better outcomes for our customers. Our technology teams solve complex challenges at scale, work with modern engineering practices and collaborate across disciplines to create services that make a real difference to millions of customers every day. If you're passionate about architecture, technology strategy and helping teams deliver exceptional outcomes, we'd love to hear from you. What you'll need: Significant experience designing and leading end-to-end solution architectures across applications, services, platforms and operational environments. Strong knowledge of mobile architecture principles across Android and iOS platforms, including integration with APIs, backend services and shared platform capabilities. Experience shaping architectural roadmaps, evaluating options and communicating technical trade-offs to a wide range of stakeholders. Strong understanding of security and resilience principles, including secure design, risk management and operational readiness considerations. Experience working within agile delivery environments and partnering closely with engineering, product and architecture teams. Proven ability to influence decisions, build alignment and provide technical leadership across complex, multi-disciplinary environments. And any experience of this would be really useful: Experience working within a regulated financial services environment or another large-scale, complex organisation. Experience with cloud technologies, microservices, observability, platform engineering or service reliability practices. Experience contributing to architecture standards, reference patterns, technical communities or engineering capability development. This is a place for you... Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need. Benefits 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top. A generous pension contribution. Discretionary annual performance-related bonus. Private medical benefit and wellbeing support. Access to flexible benefits that you can tailor to your lifestyle and priorities. Opportunities for learning, development and career progression across one of the UK's largest financial services organisations. Ready to make an impact? Apply today.
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Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ
Lloyds Banking Group - City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester
£70,929 to £78,810 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810 LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh, Manchester, or Leeds office. About this opportunity This is an exciting time to join our z/OS MQ team. We're at a pivotal point in our transformation, evolving from a traditional infrastructure function into a forward-thinking engineering team focused on automation, simplification, service excellence and innovation. We're looking for passionate, creative individuals with deep MQ expertise who want to help shape the future roadmap for messaging on the mainframe. In this role, you'll provide highly specialised technical support across critical mainframe environments while contributing to the strategic direction of our MQ platform. You'll help maintain, modernise and evolve our services in line with Group standards, as well as helping drive the adoption of modern engineering practices, DevOps principles and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities. You'll help to connect and integrate MQ with a range of modern technologies while ensuring our customers continue to receive resilient, secure and reliable services. Additionally, you'll provide technical expertise for incident and problem resolution within complex environments, including participation in out-of-hours support and delivery activities when required. What you'll do Provide technical leadership and support for complex MQ environments operating to demanding service levels. Help shape the strategic roadmap for z/OS MQ, influencing the future direction of our platform and engineering capabilities. Work closely with key stakeholders and customers to drive and deliver against the technology roadmap, ensuring service and customer outcomes remain at the heart of everything we do. Support the adoption of modern engineering practices, including automation, DevOps and continuous improvement initiatives. Collaborate across middleware, infrastructure and engineering teams to explore and implement innovative solutions, integrating mainframe technologies with emerging platforms and capabilities. Promote standardisation, simplification and operational excellence while ensuring processes and controls are adhered to. Why Lloyds Banking Group We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you! What you'll need Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on z/OS. Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning, diagnosis and problem resolution. Experience supporting and troubleshooting business-critical online systems. Experience working with Transport Layer Security (TLS). An interest in driving innovation, automation and the evolution of mainframe technologies. It would be great if you also had Experience or a keen interest in DevOps practices, automation and modern engineering approaches. An interest in AI and emerging technologies, and how they can be applied to improve engineering effectiveness and customer outcomes. Strong diagnostic skills and the ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, providing effective solutions in complex environments. About working for us Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus 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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Assistant Technology Cost and Commercial Manager
Lloyds Banking Group - Bristol, Bristol
£44,901 to £49,890 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
Assistant Technology Cost and Commercial Manager LOCATION: Bristol SALARY: £44,901 - £49,890 HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Bristol office. About this opportunity We're looking for an Assistant Technology Cost and Commercial Manager to join our Private Cloud Finance and Optimisation Team. It's a great opportunity to build your experience across finance, technology and commercial management, while helping us understand and manage the costs of one of the Group's largest technology platforms. You'll work with colleagues across Technology, Finance, Sourcing and Commercial, as well as our suppliers. Together, you'll help make sure technology costs are understood, forecast accurately and managed effectively. You'll support month-end activities and make sure costs are recorded accurately, build forecasts and cost models to help identify changes, risks and opportunities, and manage supplier financial activity including purchase orders, goods receipts, invoices and payments. You'll also review contracts and pricing, translate technology demand and sourcing plans into financial forecasts, and provide financial insight to support business cases, contract reviews, renewals and investment decisions. You don't need to be a technology expert. This is an opportunity to bring your financial and cost management experience to a technology environment and continue building your commercial and technology knowledge. Why join us We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. What you'll need Relationship Management: Experience building effective working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, including working across different business areas and with suppliers. This is mapped as an essential skill for Technology Service Enablement at this level. Risk Management: Experience identifying financial or commercial risks and opportunities, investigating issues and supporting appropriate actions. This is also mapped as an essential skill for Technology Service Enablement at this level. Financial & Budget Management: Practical experience managing costs or financial information, including budgeting, forecasting, analysing spend and explaining variances. The LBG Skills Taxonomy defines this skill around planning and controlling finances, preparing budgets, analysing spend and forecasting future requirements. Data Literacy: Experience using financial data and Excel to produce accurate analysis and turn information into useful insight for decision-making. The Skills Taxonomy defines Data Literacy as analysing, understanding and communicating data as insight to support effective business decisions. Business & Commercial Insight: Experience using financial or commercial information to understand business impacts and inform practical decisions, including costs, contracts or supplier activity. And any experience of this would be really useful IT Platforms & Hosting: An interest in, or experience of, technology platforms, infrastructure services or cloud technologies. IT Platforms & Hosting is mapped within the Technology Service Enablement job family. Financial Control: Knowledge of accounting concepts or financial processes such as accruals, prepayments, capital and operating expenditure, lease accounting or financial journals. Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A): Experience supporting business cases, forecasts, financial analysis or investment decisions. This is a place for you... Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need. Benefits We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% An annual performance-related bonus Share schemes including free shares Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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Senior Enterprise Architect (Markets and Investments)
Lloyds Banking Group - Bristol City Centre, Bristol
HybridPermanentFull time
JOB TITLE: Senior Enterprise Architect (Markets / Investment Banking) LOCATION: London, Edinburgh or Bristol HOURS: Full-Time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in London, Edinburgh or Bristol office sites About us Our Markets business is growing fast, and this is an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to shape our future target architecture. You will help solve meaningful business challenges by applying modern technology and building strong partnerships across the organisation. You will support the Markets platform by designing clear and actionable architectures that strengthen Lloyds Banking Group's client offerings and contribute to our mission of Helping Britain Prosper. This is a collaborative role where your ideas and expertise will influence both business outcomes and technology direction. About the role As the lead Enterprise Architect you will lead a small team and be accountable for all architectural decisions within your area. You will guide, challenge, and support the Markets teams as they develop and deliver strategic roadmaps. You will also represent the voice of the business when working with Group Enabling Platforms to ensure technology delivery aligns with business priorities. You will build trusted relationships across platforms, functions, and third‑party vendors. Your insight into Markets / Investment banking will help shape business propositions, vendor products and industry partnerships so they better support our Commercial clients. You will work in an agile environment on complex and high‑impact challenges. The role calls for leadership, problem solving, and the ability to bring clarity to technical and business decisions. Enterprise Architecture at Lloyds Banking Group plays a key role in setting direction and ensuring that architecturally significant outcomes are delivered. What you'll need Strong experience in Markets / Investment Banking, with a strong understanding of front-to-back trading technology. Experience of Enterprise Architecture ideally in Markets/ Investment Banking Experience shaping current, target and transition architectures, with clear roadmaps and practical technology strategies. Broad architecture knowledge across business, applications, data, infrastructure and security, including market and reference data. Experience leading architecture governance and design decisions for a business facing architecture team An understanding of resilience, disaster recovery, automation, observability and production readiness, alongside DevSecOps, CI/CD and automated testing. Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to influence senior Technology, Risk and Business leaders and turn complex requirements into clear direction About working for us Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. 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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Senior Enterprise Architect (Markets and Investments)
Lloyds Banking Group - Edinburgh, Edinburgh
HybridPermanentFull time
JOB TITLE: Senior Enterprise Architect (Markets / Investment Banking) LOCATION: London, Edinburgh or Bristol HOURS: Full-Time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in London, Edinburgh or Bristol office sites About us Our Markets business is growing fast, and this is an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to shape our future target architecture. You will help solve meaningful business challenges by applying modern technology and building strong partnerships across the organisation. You will support the Markets platform by designing clear and actionable architectures that strengthen Lloyds Banking Group's client offerings and contribute to our mission of Helping Britain Prosper. This is a collaborative role where your ideas and expertise will influence both business outcomes and technology direction. About the role As the lead Enterprise Architect you will lead a small team and be accountable for all architectural decisions within your area. You will guide, challenge, and support the Markets teams as they develop and deliver strategic roadmaps. You will also represent the voice of the business when working with Group Enabling Platforms to ensure technology delivery aligns with business priorities. You will build trusted relationships across platforms, functions, and third‑party vendors. Your insight into Markets / Investment banking will help shape business propositions, vendor products and industry partnerships so they better support our Commercial clients. You will work in an agile environment on complex and high‑impact challenges. The role calls for leadership, problem solving, and the ability to bring clarity to technical and business decisions. Enterprise Architecture at Lloyds Banking Group plays a key role in setting direction and ensuring that architecturally significant outcomes are delivered. What you'll need Strong experience in Markets / Investment Banking, with a strong understanding of front-to-back trading technology. Experience of Enterprise Architecture ideally in Markets/ Investment Banking Experience shaping current, target and transition architectures, with clear roadmaps and practical technology strategies. Broad architecture knowledge across business, applications, data, infrastructure and security, including market and reference data. Experience leading architecture governance and design decisions for a business facing architecture team An understanding of resilience, disaster recovery, automation, observability and production readiness, alongside DevSecOps, CI/CD and automated testing. Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to influence senior Technology, Risk and Business leaders and turn complex requirements into clear direction About working for us Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. 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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