Agile Working Options

Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Description Summary

Our Mission

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading digital franchise, with over 13 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. We're building the bank of the future, and we need your help. We’re continuing our extensive transformation Programme, with an investment of £3bn, redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to impact the lives of millions of customers.

Job Description

Want to know more?

The overall vision within the PFFC Value Stream is to promote social well-being for our customers by enabling them to make and receive payments and protect them from fraud and financial crime.

Do you want to lead the biggest change that Payments has seen this decade?

New Payments Architecture (NPA) is doing exactly that, and we need your help to build the Bank of the Future!

NPA is a regulatory initiative that will change UK Retail payments as we know them. Working closely with Industry, the NPA Programme Team within LBG is replacing the complexity of the existing payments landscape for Retail Payments with new, more efficient infrastructure that will benefit from enhanced security and resilience.

This multi-million-pound Programme has a new partnership with a leading Fintech company and is looking for people who are interested in working with exciting, innovative new technologies, such as Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS).

About the Role

We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge — it's what makes you awesome!

As a Release Manager, you’ll coordinate and deliver all readiness activities along the Route To Live for implementing complex or multi-platform changes into digital and non-digital channels, creating a clear schedule of events and ensuring it is followed to achieve all scope and governance requirements.

What follows is what you might find our Release Managers mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the lab’s needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and build an environment where you can do what you enjoy.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference!

• You’ll engage with the various Service Delivery teams and Value Streams to have a clear line of sight of the change portfolio and lead the Component Team and wider teams accordingly.
• As our Release Manager you’ll design and implement bespoke implementation strategies to support complex/non-standard changes, viewing change from various perspectives – customer, service, performance, operations.
• Delivers application change into the live environment working within an established programme management plan and representing the team to governance bodies, gaining and retaining the confidence of all platform consumers.
• Achieves planned commitments by developing short-term and/or medium-term work schedules and using additional resources as needed.

About You

• You're a multifaceted and adaptable individual who uses & learns new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances.
• Adept at providing sophisticated solutions, research advice, recommendations and using your own judgement
• As a natural facilitator and decision-maker, you'll enable teamwork across all fields within the Lab and Value Streams
• You're a skilled negotiator and problem solver who will influence positively
• You'll be a natural leader who'll mentor and support colleagues to ‘deliver best in class’ change
• Have the confidence to constructively challenge decisions when relevant
• Demonstrating similar values and behaviours to our Group's and encouraging this in team members

We're looking for someone who:

• You’ll have a solid technical background and superb communication skills to interact with a wide range of teams and technologies. to have regular meetings with business and technical domain experts.
• Good experience around release management for regulatory changes and managing release for large enterprise enabler platforms would be a distinct advantage.
• You’ll grow your own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develop the capabilities of your team by working within existing development framework;
• Identifies shortcomings and suggests improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures
• You’ll have the experience of adapting to evolving requirements for the role and flex as needed
• Experience of working in an agile environment and adopting agile methods

**The role can involve a lot of out of hours work (evening and weekend) as implementations may run on many weekends.

Together we'll make it possible...So what can we offer you in return?

The role offers the chance to create new products and capabilities, shaping new ways of working and having an impact across the bank. Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity.

We promote an inclusive, collaborative and encouraging environment- it's one of the many things our colleagues love about working with us!

We're really keen to support all our colleagues in finding new opportunities so if you're interested in one of our roles but have concerns about flexible working arrangements or additional support, please contact our Hiring Managers who will be happy to discuss how we could support you in role.

Sound like you? Apply today, we’d love to hear from you...

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

And if you’d like to find out more about why PFFC is a great place to work, check out this video.

You can also check out the PFFC hive site for more on PFFC and our Payments, Fraud & Financial Crime Teams including our very own Payments Proposition hive site.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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'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.