Job offer Senior Engineering Manager (Mainframe)

JOB TITLE: Senior Engineering Manager (Mainframe)

SALARY: £80,206 - £94,360

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time - Please note that this role will require you to be on call outside of normal working hours and there will be an additional on call allowance.

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


About this opportunity
You'll be part of the z Mainframe Lab, reporting to the Technical Product Owner for z Mainframe Hosting and leading a team of CICS & MQ or Database Administrator engineers. The z Mainframe Lab are the team that looks after the critical infrastructure that underpins Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG) strategic transactional processing systems, namely the IBM Z Mainframe. The IBM Z Mainframe is Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG) platform of choice for our high-end transactional processing requirements for business units.



We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead, inspire and develop a team of backend engineers. You'll drive a strategic effort to improve the agility and pace of operations and cost of our z Mainframe Lab for LBG. The services you'll help lead, develop, and operate are at the core of our infrastructure and require high quality while moving fast to keep up with our customers' needs. This is an exciting time to join the z Mainframe team! We're investing heavily in transformation activities which you'll directly be involved in!



Specific activities you'll look after day to day might include:

Team leadership of between 15 to 25 engineers including personal development and day to day task & demand management. This will take up about 30% - 40% of your time


Working with stakeholders to translate technical incidents into non-technical language


Incident & Change Management


Risk Management & controls


Supporting service improvements, switch to Agile methods and working using JIRA and Jira Align toolsets


Driving backlog prioritisation of tasks and managing capacity within the team


Planning & supporting decommissioning & system upgrade activity


Acting as the technical point of contact for the team, developing and leading engineering product evolution in the z Mainframe lab


Support the Technical Product Owner


Talent Management - Supporting our growing apprenticeship/internship & graduate hires as they develop!




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

Background working in the z Mainframe sector and hands on engineering experience with relevant technical concepts (Database and or CICS & MQ)


Experience in a technical leadership position working at a senior level. Full line & task management.


We're growing! We're focused on growing the talent in our team and need someone experienced supporting, mentoring & motivating our teams!


Technical Knowledge: Infrastructure Hosting Platforms, Infrastructure Engineering (DevOps, SRE, Security)


If you have a financial services background or experience working within a regulated environment that would be beneficial.




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




Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.