Virtualisation Engineering Lead

1 month ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Lloyds Banking Group Full time

JOB TITLE: Virtualisation Engineering Lead

LOCATION: Edinburgh or Leeds

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.

About this opportunity

Working as part of the Modern Workplace Technology organisation, the Virtualisation Engineering Lead is responsible for vision, strategy, engineering, and operational support for the organisations Virtual Desktop & Virtual Application capabilities.

This is a senior leadership level role and will blend both deep domain & technical expertise with great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model including advocation for team wellbeing.

You will lead a team in this role, and you'll need to:

  • Focus on your team to ensure they have the appropriate training in our methodologies and understand their role in the organisation.

  • Coach and mentor others throughout the organisation, taking responsibility for development of self and others, actively seeking and providing feedback.

  • Develop and deliver a plan for a specific area of responsibility by managing others.

  • Set objectives and take responsibility for implementing team performance management systems with guidance from senior colleagues.

Specific activities will include:

  • Managing the development, delivery & continual improvement of the Azure Virtual Desktop personal & multi-session products.

  • Ensuring the Azure Virtual Desktop offerings meet the experience, performance, security and scalability needs of the organisation

  • Championing a DevOps/SRE approach, engineering products & driving an automation first agenda embracing Infrastructure as code principles to achieve consistent delivery

  • Contributes to defining roadmaps and strategies for technologies, tools and architectures

  • Manages definition, prioritisation & delivery of the Virtualization product backlog.

  • Work with stakeholders including Modern Workplace Product Owners & Business lines to ensure technologies align to our IT and Business strategies.

  • Ensures the delivery organisation is properly resourced with appropriate planning for growth, and all the delivery teams have been trained in appropriate methodologies and understand their role

  • Works closely with our Compliance, Legal and Cyber teams to ensure products & services comply with the regulatory framework.

  • Ensures suppliers are delivering required levels of service while reporting to senior colleagues.

  • Develops innovative solutions by integrating and analysing complex and diverse information sources.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you'll need

  • Extensive Experience of Infrastructure Engineering & Operations of M365, Device Management & Virtualisation Technology including Azure Virtual Desktops & Azure Infrastructure

  • A good understanding of Infrastructure Automation including Terraform, Infrastructure as code, configuration as code.

  • Passionate about customer experience and outcomes driven by technology

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

And any experience of these would be really useful

  • A good understanding of Security & Compliance requirements in regulated environments

  • Experience of Architecture Design notes and Governance

  • PowerShell scripting for Azure administration and automation.

  • Experience with Bicep (or ARM templates) for defining and deploying Azure resources.

  • Strong understanding of networking, Active Directory, and Group Policy.

  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.

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's 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 performance-related bonus

  • Share schemes including free shares.

  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

  • Generous holiday allowance, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.



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