text: Head of Platform - Core at Lloyds Banking Group | WORK180
  £115,120 - £143,900
  ***The base salary banding for this role is £116,272 - £174,408 in London and £100,352 - £150,528 outside of London, plus the benefits listed below.***
  We're on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it!
  Our Cloud Services platform is looking for a Head of Platform Core. You'll define, build, and run the core building blocks that enable an ecosystem of platforms and services that deliver IT resources and environments on demand in a self-serve way. You will enable Lloyds Banking Group to adopt multiple clouds through a unified control and management plane that accelerates the delivery of business applications and services.
  You'll role model our values & behaviours and shape, coach and lead a team of Technical Product Owners and Engineering Leads together aligning our Platform agenda with the Groups Strategy.
  What you'll get involved with
  Define and deliver a unified control and management plane and framework for adopting multiple clouds (GCP, Azure, AWS)
  Leading an organization of platform product teams
  Run and operate the products delivered (DevOps) to security and service standards defined within LBG
  Supporting and enabling both value streams and platforms consumers adoption
  Responsibility and understanding of building fit for purpose solutions that are optimised financially
  Building a team that can deliver effective products using a varied supply chain
  For this senior leadership role in a growing organisation, we're looking for a good balance between leader and inspiring the team with the ability to get 'hands on' when needed.
  A deep understanding about how to build virtual data centres, provisioning systems, enterprise grade controls and IT management systems
  Consistent track record of leading engineering teams in an enterprise environment
  Excellent collaboration within internal teams and across project teams/ external partners/vendors.
  Good knowledge of agile and lean start-up practices
  Ability to translate platform consumers needs into technical products
  Ability to pragmatically balance the demands of consumers with the need to maintain the integrity of the target platform.
  Ability to lead, coach and mentor.
  A broad understanding of Cloud Platforms: GCP, Azure, AWS
  Experience in building platforms for developers
  Ability to define technical products, roadmaps, user journeys and APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
  Ability to define and review technical architectures
  Good knowledge of distributed systems and architectures
  An understanding of the internals of the cloud platforms and services
  Good knowledge of security protocols and access management
  Ability to review code in different programming languages (java, c++, python,go …) and knowledgeable in programming paradigms (object oriented, functional programming )
  Ability to be hands on and create prototypes and MVP of the different platform products
  Experience in working with CI/CD and DevOps Approaches.
  Experience in delivering infrastructure as code based solutions based on known languages (terraform, pulumi, ansible)
  Good knowledge of systems programming and Linux is a plus
  Experience in Azure DevOps and Github actions is a plus
  What you'd get in return
  As a team we have all embraced working from home. We fully support the new developing workstyles, taking a flexible approach to future working. Whilst we can't accommodate every option, we are happy to consider any flexible working request.
  We're committed to building a team which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture, focused on making a difference.