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Job Title: Chief Engineer
Location: Manchester
Salary: £126,523 - £148,850
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office a week.
About 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. Including you!
As the Group continues its ongoing strategic transformation, LBG has created a new function to identify, develop, and deliver new opportunities in Horizons 2 and 3. This new function works across siloes and domains, accelerating the delivery of innovations that will shape our future.
As part of that team, we are looking for a visionary and hands‑on technology leader to be our Chief Engineer for Group Innovation. The role is accountable for identifying, exploring, and defining how emerging technologies can be applied to transform how the Group operates, unlock new opportunities, and deliver exceptional customer and colleague experiences. This is a rare opportunity to shape a new team and influence how technology is used across the Group’s biggest innovation bets, combining experimentation and invention with the scale, reach, and purpose of the UK’s largest retail bank.
You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping where the Group places its most important innovation investments, informing priorities and helping define the engineering vision for innovation. You’ll bring curiosity, ambition, and strong technical judgement to ensure ideas are developed into practical, scalable outcomes.
Alongside this strategic influence, you’ll lead engineering teams to rapidly prototype and validate innovative solutions, taking ideas from early‑stage experimentation through to evidence-backed designs that are ready to scale into production. This role requires strong architectural judgement and the ability to create solutions that deliver value, reduce complexity, and improve how the organisation operates.
This is a senior leadership role for someone with a deep passion for engineering and emerging technology. If you thrive in ambiguity, are motivated by building new things in complex environments, and want to drive change that can impact millions, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of banking.
Set the engineering and technology direction for Group Innovation, shaping how emerging technologies are applied to deliver the Group’s most important innovation bets.
Translate new and emerging technologies into practical solutions that inform investment, build, and scale decisions.
Own end‑to‑end solution architecture across innovation initiatives, from early experimentation through to designs and patterns validated as ready for production scale.
Lead and guide venture teams to rapidly prototype, making critical technical decisions to ensure solutions are validated for scalability and alignment to enterprise standards.
Define and promote engineering standards, architectural principles, and guardrails that enable rapid experimentation without creating downstream risk or complexity.
Work across Group platform and domain teams to ensure toolchains, environments, and integrations support effective innovation delivery.
Act as a senior engineering voice for Group Innovation, sharing patterns, lessons learned, and outcomes to raise engineering capability across the Group.
Ensure innovation initiatives deliver measurable outcomes, including revenue growth, cost reduction, productivity improvement, and simplification of legacy systems where appropriate.
Visionary engineering leader who combines curiosity, ambition, and strong technical judgement, able to balance speed, quality, resilience, and cost.
Deep technologist with a passion for emerging technologies and how they can be applied in real‑world, regulated environments.
Hands‑on experience applying AI‑enabled capabilities in real‑world systems, using AI to re‑imagine how products are built, operated, and scaled.
Comfort operating in ambiguity, shaping direction where answers are not yet clear.
Organisational influencing skills, able to build trust with senior stakeholders, platform teams, and delivery leaders.
Pragmatic innovator with experience working in or alongside startup, scale‑up, or innovation‑led environments, motivated by building new solutions, modernising existing systems, and learning through experimentation.
Senior experience in engineering, architecture, or technology leadership roles.
Career background as a software engineer and/or technical architect, with progression into leadership.
Experience operating within large‑scale or regulated organisations, working effectively with governance, risk, and control functions.
A track record of simplifying complex technology landscapes or reducing technical debt.
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 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.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.