Lab Engineering Lead (Digital Assets & Currencies (Paytech) Lab)

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Job Description Summary

SALARY: From £86,964

LOCATION: Edinburgh or London

HOURS: Full Time - 35 hours

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at either our London Wall or Sighthill North office.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Lab Engineering Lead (Digital Assets & Currencies Lab)

SALARY:

Outside London: £86,964 - 102,310

London: £100,657 - £118,420

LOCATION: Edinburgh or London

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 either our London Wall or Sighthill North office based in Edinburgh.

About this opportunity

Our mission in the Payments Services Platform (PSP) is to offer compliant and efficient payment capabilities for LBG. We drive innovation to ensure customers can move money confidently, quickly, and securely. PSP is a vital part of Group Payments, serving the entire LBG organisation as an enterprise function.

As a next step in our journey, we plan to set up a centre of excellence for digital assets and currencies. For this new initiative we're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our new Digital Assets & Currencies (Paytech) lab.

As the Engineering Lead, you'll contribute to the creation and implementation of reliable systems and solutions. You'll oversee the development of software that meets customer needs, while supporting your engineering teams. This leadership role requires both technical expertise and a passion for mentoring and developing others, with the opportunity to lead a team in exploring new payment technologies and shaping technical designs for our business partners and customers.

If you're enthusiastic about technology, finance and problem solving this is the perfect career opportunity for you! This role is both impactful and essential given the reliance on our technologies in today's vital digital economy.

Here's where you'll make a difference:

• Function as a trusted advisor, providing expert guidance and recommendations on technology strategy, transformation, and innovation roadmaps.
• Function as a trusted advisor, providing expert guidance and recommendations on technology strategy, transformation, and innovation roadmaps.
• Provide guidance on standard processes for using emerging technologies like digital assets, tokenization, blockchain, distributed ledger, and smart contracts to overcome business challenges and stay ahead.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments across the Payments technology landscape, identifying gaps and opportunities.
• Assess and determine the technical feasibility/relevance of proposals for sophisticated products/services with guidance from collaborators and specialized areas, such as the Chief Security Office.

About us

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you'll find them all here.

What you'll need

• Experience across the Payments domain, industry, and technology ecosystem, in addition to knowledge of the wider industry landscape, considering how the new Payments marketplace would integrate with existing Payment types and schemes.
• Experience in providing Software Engineering oversight, technical and people leadership across multiple teams.
• Experience in and deep knowledge of DLT, API, Tokenisation products/ services.
• Responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a lab, while coaching and mentoring others and investing in your own personal development.
• Ability to meet changing requirements by developing new testing approaches and strategies for a defined range of products and/or operations.
• Experience of inspiring delivery through large cross-functional teams, deploying strategic technology solutions and engaging with global partners and suppliers.
• Experience of collaborating with Fintechs and other organisations to achieve a common goal.
• The capacity to have an impact on various levels of the organisation and effectively communicate choices and decisions to senior leaders.
• Evidence of championing capability growth, people development and continuous improvement. Building a positive culture that attracts and retains talent.
• Experience in developing strategies and implementing plans to achieve organisational goals in alignment with the overall technology strategy.
• Ability to address risks across our current service through investing in our assets and security capabilities.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Experience of technology consultancy and / or research and development.

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 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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.