Engineering Team Manager (Android)

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JOB TITLE: Engineering Team Manager (Android)

SALARY: £104,686 - £123,160

LOCATION: London 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 one of our office sites.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY:

We’re looking for an Android Team Manager to join our Segments & Propositions Relationship lab in London. We're developing exciting new ecosystems within our Mobile Banking app to deepen relationships with our retail customers. We're at the heart of our Group wide change. We want to provide a seamless digital experience, with the right products and services at our customers’ fingertips, but our face-to-face, telephone and secure messaging remain a vital part of our service.

As part of our London based team, you will lead an established team evolving our Digital Internet Banking Channels (native mobile and web).

This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate who can provide hands-on engineering leadership and expertise to a full-stack mobile app team. You will be passionate and experienced in designing and delivering scalable mobile applications interacting with API-based platforms.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

· Specialising in Android, you will lead a full-stack feature team of mobile, API and quality engineers with a focus on predictable delivery and engineering excellence.

· Collaborate with fellow leads, solution architects, UI/UX designers, and product owners to define roadmaps, technical designs and unblock delivery.

· Lead by example by being a hands-on contributor to the codebase and providing oversight and feedback via pull requests.

· Demonstrate leadership for mobile architecture and API and micro-service design with deep knowledge in all aspects of Android development

· Provide line-management and personal development support for engineering team members

· Develops tactical plans for optimisation of resources and assets being managed within a given area or department.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

· Proven experience in leading software engineering projects within large, distributed systems.

· Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams on a shared vision.

· Proven experience of modern application and software development approaches including automated testing, test driven development, continuous integration, pair programming, code review and version control

· Proficiency in Kotlin, as well as a strong knowledge in Jetpack Compose

· Solid understanding of clean architecture, design patterns (MVP, MVVM, MVI) and principles (SOLID, DRY)

· Confidence to express their own opinions and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate

ABOUT WORKING FOR US

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

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

• X days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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.