Enterprise Infrastructure Lead

• You’ll be part of the Enterprise Lab in Core Infrastructure, reporting to the Engineering Lead, and lead engineering teams that compose, build, run and modernise Unisys-based infrastructure, ensuring resilience, security, and regulatory compliance while progressively simplifying and modernising the platform estate
• The Enterprise Lab support platforms that sit at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group, processing high value, customer critical transactions in a highly regulated environment
• This role combines deep technical stewardship of enterprise-class infrastructure with people leadership, platform strategy, and operational excellence
• We’re looking for someone to lead, inspire and develop a team of infrastructure engineers
• You’ll drive a strategic effort to improve the agility, pace of operations and cost, of our Lab for LBG
• The services you’ll help lead, develop, and operate are at the core of our infrastructure and require high quality while moving fast to keep up with our customers’ needs
• This is an exciting time to join the team!
• Lead and develop engineering teams responsible for the enterprise-class infrastructure, setting clear technical direction and fostering a strong engineering culture
• Own the technical integrity, availability, resilience and security of these enterprise platforms supporting the Bank
• Define and execute platform and infrastructure strategies, including hardware refresh, software currency, resilience improvements and decommissioning activity
• Act as a senior technical authority for Infrastructure platforms, supporting deep expertise during incidents, change design, risk management and assurance activities
• Lead major change initiatives, ensuring high‑quality change execution through CAB, effective risk assessment, and robust implementation planning
• Partner closely with application teams, architects, security, service, and suppliers to enable safe delivery of change and continuous improvement
• Drive simplification, automation and operational efficiency where appropriate, while understanding the challenges of enterprise platforms
• Support financial management for the platform, including forecasting, cost control and supplier oversight
• Develop capability within your teams through coaching, mentoring, skills development and succession planning
• HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

Benefits

• A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
• A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
• Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
• Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
• Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
• Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
• Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
• Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
• Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our ‘Your Tomorrow’ scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.- Leading engineering teams accountable for enterprise-level infrastructure in a regulated, high-availability setting
• Experience managing complex change and incident scenarios, including senior collaborator engagement
• What we’re looking for?
• Strong hands-on understanding of mainframe or midrange platforms (e.g. Unisys, IBM Z, Non-Stop, or equivalent critically important estates)
• Solid understanding of resilience, security, and operational risk within financial services or comparable regulated industries
• Ownership of platform strategy, lifecycle management and technical roadmaps
• Experience with Unisys systems
• Financial services, payments, mortgages, or core banking environments
• Hardware refreshes or large‑scale technology transformation programmes
• We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply- End Date: Friday 08 May 2026