Lead Software Engineer

Location: City of Edinburgh

** End Date
** Wednesday 31 December 2025
** Salary Range**£104,686 - £190,898
** Flexible Working Options
** Hybrid Working, Job Share
** Job Description Summary**.
** Job Description
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* Job Title:

** Lead Software Engineer  
** Salary:** £90,440 - £106,400  
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* Location:

** Edinburgh  
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* Hours:

** Full-time   
** Working Pattern:
** Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh Office.

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!
** About this opportunity
** Become a part of the Commercial Bank for Lloyds Banking Group and seize a unique chance to influence the future of digital banking. Our mission to build a bank of the future is driven by our extensive transformation programme. A great opportunity to work on ambitious projects, focusing on delivering exceptional digital journeys for our clients. If you're passionate about customer success, innovation, and leading transformative technology initiatives, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

You'll play a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and feature-packed software solutions. Commercial Banking division has a rich heritage of supporting businesses and the economic prosperity of the nation, and you can make a real impact in how this is done.
** What you’ll do
** As Lead Software Engineer you'll be tasked with a variety of responsibilities that are crucial to our success. This is a leadership level role and will blend both technical expertise with a great passion for coaching and developing people, including advocating team wellbeing.
* Lead and mentor a multi-skilled team to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions to support business goals.
* Participate in the full software development lifecycle to design, build and deliver maintainable, testable, observable and resilient software systems.
* Collaborate with feature teams and third parties to identify and implement creative solutions that align with business objectives.
* Use agile tools, methodologies and data to monitor progress, addressing any issues promptly to ensure timely delivery. Identify and mitigate risks to ensure successful implementations to live.
* Develop and document processes to improve engineering efficiency and service quality.
* Engage in continuous improvement initiatives, fostering an environment of learning and growth within the team.
* Management of Third Party Suppliers to ensure solutions are performant, secure and resilient, and meet bank objectives and client needs.
* Monitor and analyse service performance metrics to continually improve our offerings.
* Accept 24 7 accountability and ownership to support availability, currency and performance.
* Ensure that all engineering activities align with industry standards and regulations.
** What you’ll need
*** Proven experience in a leadership role within engineering, with a track record of mentoring and developing talent.
* Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle working with at least two of the following languages and frameworks  (React, Redux, JavaScript, Type Script, HTML5, CSS3 Java 17+, Spring Boot and relational databases)
* Breadth of technical understanding across software development and architecture, service operations, Dev Ops, and cloud.
* Experience of agile development practices, Dev Ops pipelines, continuous integration / deployment, test automation and the E2E software development lifecycle.
* Strong communication skills, dynamic and adaptable, with the ability to facilitate efficient and effective decision-making. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively collaborate with a diverse range of collaborators.
* Experience of managing Third Party Suppliers in the context of providing software solutions, including the configuration and testing of such products.
** About working for us
** Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern…