• Job Description

  Req#: 090088

  End Date

  Thursday 29 June 2023

  Salary Range

  £73,616 - £92,020

  
  

  We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

  Agile Working Options

  Hybrid Working

  Job Description Summary

  Working as part of the Modern Workplace Technology organisation, the Release & Vulnerability Management Lead is responsible for keeping the Banks 90,000 Windows client devices evergreen & secure through continual testing & business engagement
  
  This is a senior leadership level role and will blend both deep domain & technical expertise with great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model including advocation for team wellbeing.
  
  This role will be an advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team.

  Job Description

  Location : Leeds (hybrid working)

  Benefits: base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

  We’re a family friendly organisation who focus on delivery, not time at your desk. A mature, flexible work environment, flexible start/finish hours, agile working practices. We care about your mental health and want to enable a good work-life balance.

  Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

  Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading digital franchise, with over 20 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. We're building the bank of the future, and we need your help.

  About the role

  Continuing our extensive £3bn transformation programme, Lloyds Banking Group is redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true technology-led organisation.

  This role will enable you to be at the very centre of this transformation, defining not only how we best utilise our technology to support our colleagues, but also how we can build and grow our colleagues skills.

  Could you help make it possible?

  • Working as part of the Modern Workplace Technology organisation, the Release & Vulnerability Management Lead is responsible for keeping the Banks 90,000 Windows client devices evergreen & secure through continual testing & business engagement!

  • This is a senior leadership level role and will blend both deep domain & technical expertise with great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model including advocation for team wellbeing. You’ll actively promote new ways of working, transformation methodology and maintain an inclusive environment.

  • Being an advocate for Engineering is key, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team.

  What does the role involve?

  • Manages development, delivery & continual improvement of release management processes for Windows client estate.

  • Exceptional stakeholder management & continuous testing to ensure the Quality (security) updates, Feature updates & Vulnerability patches meet experience, performance, security and functionality needs of the organisation

  • Works closely with our Compliance, Risk and Cyber teams to ensure products & services comply with the regulatory framework.

  • Manages definition, prioritisation & delivery of the Release Management product backlog.

  • Manages & coordinates Controls across the Modern Workplace platform.

  • Contributes to defining roadmaps and strategies for technologies, tools and architectures.

  • Champions and delivers a DevOps/SRE approach, engineering products for operational automation and self-service.

  • Balancing investment and resource priorities to focus on those that drive value, deliver on our commitments and technical improvements to improve the colleague experience.

  • Develops and delivers contingency plans for significant aspects of the risk management and control processes.

  • Develops innovative solutions by integrating and analysing complex and diverse information sources.

  • Meets changing requirements by developing new testing approaches and strategy for a defined range of products and operations.

  You will lead a team in this role and you'll need to:

  • Focus on your team to ensure they have the appropriate training in our methodologies and understand their role in the organisation.

  • Coach and mentor others throughout the organisation, taking ownership for development of self and others, actively seeking and providing feedback.

  • Sets objectives and takes responsibility for implementing team's performance management systems with guidance from senior colleagues.

  What you I get in return?

  We think we're fun (others might challenge that) but we're definitely a friendly, engaging and hard-working. We’re flexible in terms of working hours with onsite teamwork at least 2 days a week.

  We promote equal opportunities, and welcome applications from employees from a diverse range of backgrounds. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions.

  We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential.
  As a new colleague, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain, and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel welcomed and valued.

  
  Together we make it possible!

  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.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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