Overview

Principal Software Engineer – Lloyds Banking Group.

End Date: Friday 26 September 2025

Salary: £90,440 - £106,400

Location: Manchester (Non-Negotiable)

Hours: Full time

Working pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Manchester office.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Principal Software Engineer
SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400
LOCATION: Manchester (Non-Negotiable)
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Manchester office.

About This Opportunity

Are you a tech leader who loves empowering teams and driving change? We’re looking for an innovative Principal Engineer to drive the success of our teams, ensuring they have everything they need to thrive. In this role, you’ll be the go-to person for everything tech in your area. You’ll oversee both day-to-day operations and long-term change initiatives, ensuring everything runs smoothly while constantly improving efficiency. You’ll make sure technology is at the heart of decision-making, working with product owners to develop solutions that drive the business forward. Your deep technical background will be essential in guiding the team and making strategic calls on risk, resilience, and cost management. If you’re ready to step into a leadership role that shapes both people and technology we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers across software, data, and architecture disciplines.
• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and resilient systems using modern technologies.
• Champion DevOps and CI/CD practices to enable continuous delivery and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Drive the evolution of our telephony and digital platforms into cloud-native, microservice-based ecosystems.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with security, data governance, and regulatory standards.

What You’ll Need

• Modern Engineering knowledge across a broad range of solutions and platforms, including microservices, build patterns, DevOps, automation, hosting, language and platform choices.
• Experience navigating complex systems architectures, comprising modern and legacy solutions, and in-house and product solutions using both on-premise and Cloud hosting.
• Practical experience of software design, build and release using DevOps principles and practices, with working knowledge of Java, JSP, GCP, test automation and automated pipelines.
• Ability to manage complex delivery, bringing teams together from within and outside the Bank around a shared outcome to deliver successfully.
• Experience mentoring and coaching engineers to build a world-class engineering capability. A passion for coaching and developing colleagues and building a strong team culture.
• Continual learning mindset and interest in engineering principles, practices and technologies.

Nice to Have

• Experience with telephony platforms (e.g. Genesys, Twilio, Avaya, Nuance)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
• Data engineering (ETL, SQL, Power BI, Tableau)
• Secure-by-design principles and architectural patterns
• Interest in AI, IoT, or service mesh (e.g. Istio)
• NodeJS
• Experience with software quality tools such as SonarQube

About Working For Us

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 are disability confident and welcome reasonable adjustments to our recruitment processes.

We Also Offer a Wide-ranging Benefits Package

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Discounted shopping and lifestyle benefits
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays on top
• Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. Our colleagues shape the financial services of the future and have opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe and only request confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to interview or accepted a verbal offer. We’re committed to a values-led culture and a diverse workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology