Head of Engineering - Collaboration

End Date Tuesday 03 June 2025 Salary Range £124,653 - £146,650 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share Job Description Summary . Job Description JOB TITLE: Head of Collaboration (M365) Engineering SALARY: £124,653 - £146,650 LOCATION: Leeds, Edinburgh, or London HOURS: Full-time 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, attending on the Platform anchor day with flexibility around the other office day(s) About this opportunity… The Modern Workplace platform provides IT services to 90,000 colleagues across Lloyds Banking Group. You'll be at the heart of one of the UK's biggest financial service technical transformations maximising the use of shared tools and technology across our entire organisation. We're seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Collaboration Engineering to lead a team of engineers in designing, implementing, and maintaining collaboration solutions across Lloyds Banking Group. This role is crucial in driving technical excellence and innovation. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for driving innovation in collaboration technologies including M365 Productivity Tooling, Data, Messaging Platforms & Real Time Communications. About us… 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 be doing… Product Management: Work with the Lab Product Owner to provide effective leadership and management of the team. Specifically, this requires setting the vision, mobilisation of the teams required to deliver it and ensuring effective delivery execution. Innovation: Drive innovation by exploring new technologies and methodologies to improve colleague experience, efficiency and effectiveness. Foster a culture of innovation to ensure we deliver high quality Services, maximise value of our investments and use technology to solve problems in new ways. Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of collaboration engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement Performance Monitoring: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the effectiveness of collaboration solutions and identify areas for improvement Application Management: Manage technology budgets, resources and allocating them efficiently across products and services. Take ownership and accountability for delivery, operations risk management and total cost of services Your Development: Have the opportunity to participate in a number of career development activities, become aligned to some great Mentors within the business and access a huge array of learning and development to build your skills and career. What you’ll need… Strong leadership, management, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower the Collaboration Lab (Product & Engineering Team). Proven experience, both hands on & managing Collaboration Technology platforms across Enterprise environments including M365 (Teams, SharePoint, Copilot, etc.), Data platforms, Email platforms, Compliance & Surveillance Technologies and Real Time Communications. Practical experience within an Agile change delivery construct, ideally having used JIRA/JIRA Align previously being comfortable leading the team within a SCRUM / Kanban model; always seeking to improve our skills and our product. 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. And it 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance 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 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.