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Monday 01 December 2025Salary Range
£59,850 - £66,500We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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JOB TITLE: Real Estate Technology Lead
SALARY: £59,850 - £66,500
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds
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 one of our office sites
About this opportunity
We are seeking a visionary Real Estate Technology Lead, to shape the future of how our organisation works. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining a multi-year workplace technology strategy and roadmap that aligns with business priorities and supports future ways of working. You will ensure that our technology investments deliver measurable value, enhance colleague experience, and enable collaboration at scale.
This is a strategic leadership role that combines technology foresight, behavioural insight, and organisational impact. Champion workplace effectiveness by ensuring digital tools are not only implemented but embedded into everyday work practices, driving productivity and engagement.
You will lead the shaping of the future of work by setting the strategic vision for workplace technologies and digital platforms. In this role, you will define and deliver a clear direction for how technology underpins collaboration, productivity, and colleague experience across the organisation. Ensuring that every solution aligns with organisational goals, supports hybrid and flexible working models, and drives measurable business value.
Your remit will include developing scalable, future-ready technology strategies that anticipate evolving needs and embed principles of sustainability, accessibility, and resilience. Champion innovation by scanning the horizon for market trends, AI-driven capabilities, and digital workplace advancements, translating these into actionable roadmaps and investment cases.
Beyond strategy, you'll develop a culture of continuous improvement and digital confidence, ensuring that workplace technologies are not only implemented but fully adopted and optimised. By using data, insights, and colleague feedback, you'll find opportunities to enhance workplace effectiveness, streamline processes, and create seamless, intuitive experiences.
Day to day, you will:
Develop and maintain a multi-year workplace technology strategy and roadmap (e.g., Microsoft 365, Copilot, Condeco, Omnia), aligned with business priorities and future ways of working.
Use internal data and insights (e.g. colleague feedback, usage analytics, service performance) to identify problems, opportunities, and priorities. Developing compelling workplace technology propositions that meet colleague needs and drive adoption.
Lead horizon scanning to track market trends, vendor innovations, and peer benchmarks to identify emerging technologies and trends.
Translate strategic goals into actionable initiatives, investment cases, and delivery plans. Including the evaluation pilots and proofs of concept to inform strategic decisions.
Use data and feedback to measure user impact, success factors and cost/benefits, to identify improvements, and inform future investment.
Collaborate with People & Places, IT, Cyber, Sourcing, Service Design and external partners to ensure cohesive user-centric scalable delivery. Ensuring governance, compliance, and sustainability are embedded in all technology decisions and that the roadmap reflects sustainability, accessibility, and security principles.
Represent workplace technology in governance forums, steering groups, and transformation programmes, communicating strategy and roadmap clearly across all levels of the organisation.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the constantly evolving needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too
What you’ll need:
Product Innovation: Experienced at applying colleague, business and market analysis methodology to understand the colleague and market landscape and translate the understanding into new and innovative product ideas. Using varied experience to support the product to delivery.
Financial Planning & Analysis: Capable of building budget and financial plans/forecasts. Using varied experience to analyse financial data for large-scale/complex investment funding and ensuring that plans meet the budgetary requirements. Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the funding and investment models.
Critical Thinking: Adept at using a systematic approach to derive the best solution, with awareness of biases and experience of communicating solutions to senior partners in a compelling way. Takes action to define, plan and implement the best solution.
Collaboration: Experienced at building and sustaining a network of relationships, encouraging team to networking and collaboration and managing complex collaborators.
Values & Behaviours: Is future focussed, able to communicate positions that align with the overall Group Strategy. Finds solutions, not problems. An early adopter of change and drives transformation at pace with a growth mindset. Works with integrity and promotes an inclusive environment.
Technical: Proven experience in workplace technology strategy development, digital workplace transformation, or enterprise IT planning. Including knowledge of governance, compliance, sustainability, and accessibility principles in technology delivery.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
Understanding of workplace strategies and hybrid working practices.
Experience working with technical and cross-functional agile teams to deliver change.
Agile methodology and tools expertise e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team.
Experience tackling complex problems and breaking them out into a roadmap of viable solutions.
Experience of financial planning and cost control: a track record of delivering within budget and using resources effectively.
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.
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.