Job Description

End Date Monday 24 July 2023

Salary Range \xc2\xa357,048 - \xc2\xa371,310

Agile Working Options Flexible / Variable Hours, Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Summary As below



JOB TITLE: IT Infrastructure Technology Currency Manager

SALARY: \xc2\xa372,081-80,090 (London) \xc2\xa361,641-68,490 (outside London)

LOCATION(S): London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Halifax, Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

As a function we genuinely encourage our employees to challenge and innovate as we modernise our traditional IT environments towards our Private and Public Cloud platforms.

Our aim is to maximise customer experience, service and security and in so doing, assure our leading position in the provision of Banking and Financial Services across the UK.

Working collaboratively to guide, challenge and support on all infrastructure-currency matters, you\xe2\x80\x99ll help assure the successful delivery of our technology modernisation agenda against internal and regulatory requirements.

We\'re investing in our dedicated Distributed Infrastructure Services team where you can play to your strengths in maintaining stakeholder relationships, ensuring opportunities are considered, successes are communicated and any risks to delivery are highlighted and addressed.

Because, as the Group develops its sophisticated hybrid Cloud approach our role in Distributed Infrastructure becomes even more vital.

And your mission?

To be the join between Change and Service teams in a way that ensures modernisation work is prioritised and delivered with our customers at heart.

There are many streams to the modernisation programme as it moves workloads from legacy to modern technologies.

You\'ll coordinate across an assigned portfolio, working with Project and Service managers alike. Together we\'ll ensure the end goal is met and met in a manner which achieves the best outcome. You\'ll assist with the inevitable competing demands, ensuring the implications of decisions are properly considered and accounted for.

You\'ll track progress and assumptions and highlight any delays and disparities before they inhibit progress.

You\'ll get the autonomy to handle your own workload - delivering quality pieces of work to set timescales and setting objectives as required.

What you\'ll be focussing on:

• Tracking and reviewing progress against plans and results
• Communicating between interested parties and ensuring appropriate levels of engagement
• Making sure that potential issues are called out early and dealt with in a timely manner
• Validating programme report content and metrics

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you\xe2\x80\x99d be wrong. We\xe2\x80\x99re an innovative, fast-changing business that\xe2\x80\x99s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that\xe2\x80\x99s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll need

You\'ll need to be a superb communicator, capable of delivering clear messages and understanding at all levels internally and externally.

We\'re looking for someone who is well organised, personable and can work in a matrix manner... Someone happy to muck in, that enjoys teamwork and problem solving with passion.

What we\'re seeking experience-wise:

• A background in Technology with an understanding of IT Infrastructure, its purpose and an appreciation what it might look like once migrated to the Cloud
• Experience of change delivery, what it means to be on the sending and receiving sides and what both parties offer
• Experience with engaging a wide range of IT colleagues with differing, sometimes opposed, priorities whilst keeping the end goal in mind

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Infrastructure Technologies - Middleware/Storage/Networks etc.
• IT resilience, Cloud Services, DevOps, IT Incidents/Problems/Changes
• Suppliers management/governance processes and outsourced 3rd party systems

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\xe2\x80\x99s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We\xe2\x80\x99re disability confident. So if you\xe2\x80\x99d 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Lloyds Banking Group