• Job Description

  Req#: 097589

  End Date

  Wednesday 13 September 2023

  Salary Range

  £85,255 - £155,465

  
  

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

  Agile Working Options

  Hybrid Working

  Job Description Summary

  You will be joining us in Insurance, Pensions & investments in Embark for our technology teams which drive the technology solutions and enables the business to maintain the highest levels of service to our clients whilst fully adhering to all regulatory standards and requirements. As a team we are empowered to challenge thinking and behaviours in an open, safe, and innovative environment.
  
  You will be the Dundee Technology School Lead/Coach with overall responsibility of the learning curriculum and delivering internal training, development of the school to support broader Group needs and ultimately the success of the school as a centre of excellence for developing technology capabilities. You will need strong leadership and people skills as you lead the Junior Developers as they complete training and start to deliver new greenfield developments as well as supporting existing applications and interfaces with third parties.

  Job Description

  JOB TITLE: Tech School Programme Lead & Coach (12 month FTC)

  SALARY: £85,255 - £100,300

  LOCATION(S): Dundee

  HOURS: Full-time – 12 Month FTC

  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

  Do you have a passion for people, technology and problem solving? We are seeking to recruit a talented leader with experience in technology to take a combined Team Coach, & Lead Developer role for our new technology training program, The Dundee Technology School. This is a 12-month secondment/Fixed Term Contract role where you will help shape the programme's curriculum as well as working across the Group to grow and develop the programme into a leading capability provider across the Group.

  You will also lead the first intake of 10-15 entry-level Developers as they complete their 32-week training, providing coaching, guidance & technical support. The Junior Developers will be learning coding languages such as HTML, CSS and learning about UI & UX, skills that you should already have experience of.

  Why Lloyds Banking Group:

  We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

  What you’ll need:

  You should be familiar with working in agile based environments and delivering in a sprint-based delivery approach. You will have a passion for understanding our customers’ needs and creating repeatable innovative technology-based solutions. You will be working cross functionally to work with SMEs, Business Analysts and Solution Architects to understand requirements and technical design.

  Key skills:

  • A strong leader who can develop people to meet both their career goals and the organisation’s objectives. Emphasises the importance of learning, encourages people to build new skills and provides opportunities for them to develop. Provides in-the-moment coaching, development activities and stretch goals.

  • Experience of problem solving using technology-based solutions and coding languages including Web UI & Middleware applications, SQL procedures/functions, Azure Data Factory, SSIS packages, Power BI reports, web and background services

  • Experience working within Financial Services

  • Dundee located as your team will need support from you on a daily basis.

  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.

• 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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