Lloyds Banking Group
Enterprise Infrastructure Lead
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Enterprise Infrastructure Lead
Enterprise Infrastructure Lead
Salary: £92,701 - £109,060 Location: Manchester Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week) Working Pattern: Hybrid (minimum 2 days/week in office) Flexible for colleagues with adjustments under our Flexibility Works policy.
About This Opportunity
You’ll drive the Enterprise Lab in Core Infrastructure, reporting to the Engineering Lead, and lead engineering teams responsible for the composition, building, running and modernisation of Unisys-based infrastructure. Your focus will be on ensuring resilience, security, compliance, and the progressive simplification and modernisation of the platform estate.
The Enterprise Lab supports critical banking platforms at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group, processing high-value, customer-critical transactions in a highly regulated environment. This role blends technical leadership, platform strategy, people leadership, and operational excellence.
Here, you’ll lead, inspire, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers, driving a strategic effort to improve the agility, operational pace, and cost efficiency of the lab for Lloyds Banking Group. Core services require high-quality, high-performance execution to meet ever-changing customer needs.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and develop engineering teams responsible for enterprise-class infrastructure, defining technical direction and fostering a strong engineering culture
- Own accountability for the technical integrity, availability, resilience, security, and compliance of enterprise platforms serving the bank
- Define and execute platform and infrastructure strategies, including:
- Hardware refreshes
- Software upgrades and future-proofing
- Resilience improvements
- Decommissioning of legacy systems
- Act as the senior technical authority for infrastructure platforms, providing expertise in:
- Incident response
- Change design
- Risk management
- Regulatory assurance
- Lead major change initiatives, ensuring high-quality execution through:
- Change Advisory Board (CAB) processes
- Effective risk assessment
- Robust implementation planning
- Collaborate closely with application teams, architects, security, service delivery leads, and suppliers to drive safe delivery and continuous improvement
- Drive simplification, automation, and operational efficiency, balancing enterprise constraints with innovation opportunities
- Support financial management for the platform, including:
- Forecasting
- Cost control
- Supplier governance
- Develop team capabilities through:
- Coaching and mentoring
- Skills development
- Succession planning
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Why Join Us?
We’re transforming at pace, investing billions in people, data, and technology to redefine how we serve our 28 million customers. This is a dynamic time to join and part of our future growth.
What We’re Looking For
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience leading engineering teams accountable for enterprise-level infrastructure in a regulated, high-availability environment
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in:
- Mainframe or midrange platforms (e.g., Unisys**/ Zeb**x, IBM Z, Non-Stop, or comparable critically important estates)
- Strong understanding of platform strategy, lifecycle management, and technical roadmaps
- Experience managing:
- Complex change scenarios (e.g., multi-team decommissioning, hardware upgrades)
- Incident resolution with stakeholder collaboration
- Solid knowledge of:
- Resilience
- Security
- Operational risk in financial services
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Desirable Experience
- Work experience with Unisys systems*
- Exposure to core banking environments (payments, mortgages, high-value transaction processing)
- Hands-on involvement in hardware refreshes or large-scale technology transformation programmes
Note: We consider equivalent experience from comparable systems
We value diverse backgrounds—prior experience doesn’t need to match this list exactly. Transferable skills are valued equally.
This Is a Place for You
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re committed to being the leading UK employer for diversity, equity, and inclusion, ensuring everyone can thrive.
Benefits Package
We offer a wide-ranging rewards portfolio designed to be flexible to your lifestyle, including:
- Generous pension contribution (up to 15%).
- Annual performance-related bonus alongside long-term share schemes.
- Discount shopping from brands across industries.
- 30 days’ holiday (+ bank holidays).
- Wide-ranging wellbeing initiatives
- Generous parental leave policies tailored to your needs.
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