Technology Engineering Industrial Placement

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Technology Engineering Industrial Placement

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Prior to submitting your application, please visit our early careers website to find out more about the schemes we offer and the recruitment journey: www.lloydsbankinggrouptalent.com.

Our industrial placements may close early if we receive a high number of applications, so it’s best to apply as soon as you can.

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Technology Engineering Industrial Placement 

Imagine what’s next. Imagine a career in cutting-edge technology and engineering, where you’ll impact millions of lives and Help Britain Prosper. Make it real. Apply now for our Technology Engineering Industrial Placement. 

Why Join Us?

We’re the UK’s largest digital bank and support 22 million digitally active customers. We're investing up to £3bn annually in cutting-edge tech like AI and cloud technology, driving our digital transformation. Join a team that's advancing fintech collabs and creating a tech-driven culture.

Launch Your Tech Career

In our team of expert Technology Engineers, you’ll play a big part in our digital journey. Learn new skills, contribute your ideas, and help create better, faster and safer ways for us to serve our customers. With endless growth opportunities, grab the chance to start a career that means something.

Is This Placement for You?

Mad about tech? Love coding? Ready for the challenge of making innovative digital products even better? A Technology Engineering placement at Lloyds Banking Group could be your perfect fit.

This placement lets you dive into all kinds of Engineering, making a real impact on millions of customers, businesses, and communities. You’ll explore areas like Software Engineering, DevOps, Quality Engineering, Cyber Security, and more. Along the way you’ll get hands-on with top tech, developing skills such as containerisation, source control, DevOps pipelines, Cloud skills and API development and integration.

Our Engineers work closely with their labs on design, development, strategy, and implementation of software solutions. If you love collaborating on innovative products, this placement is definitely for you.

What You’ll Learn

From day one, you'll work alongside experienced Engineers, delivering vital services. You might work on large-scale transformations, code in various languages, create DevOps pipelines, or build new mobile app features. Learn how to apply Agile methodology and see the impact of your contributions in a team environment.

Supported by your Engineering Lead, there’s additional learning and certifications up for grabs, including cloud training. You'll also have access to our on-demand learning platform and opportunities to network at hackathons supported by Google, Microsoft, and IBM.

Do well in your placement and you could be fast-tracked to our Technology Engineering Graduate Scheme.

What You Could Be Doing

• Develop coding skills with languages like JavaScript, Java, C#, Python, Smith and Kotlin.
• Automate processes to save time for colleagues and customers.
• Ensure new software offers a seamless customer experience.
• Stress-test customer journeys and find improvements.
• Build customer service infrastructure for branches.

Is This for You?

Requirements

• Have just completed your penultimate year of university during the placement dates.
• Basic understanding of at least one modern programming language or framework.
• Love of technology and a strong desire to learn.

Locations

This programme operates in various UK regional locations including South West (Bristol & Cardiff), West Yorkshire (Halifax & Leeds), North West (Manchester, Cheadle and Chester) & Edinburgh. You’ll select one of these locations and be based there throughout your programme. We support hybrid working, with all colleagues expected to spend a minimum of two days each week in the office you have been placed.

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.

About Lloyds Banking Group

With over 26 million customers, we’re the largest UK retail and commercial financial provider. And with 17 million active online users among them, we’re also the UK’s biggest digital bank.

Our Technology Engineering Industrial Placement gives you the chance to see the impact we’re making on customers, communities, and the planet through brands like Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Widows.

Imagine what’s next with us

To meet the ever-changing needs of our customers, we’re welcoming a new digital future – investing up to £2bn each year in things like robotics, machine learning, and cloud technology.

If you’re passionate about technology and love the idea of using it to improve people’s banking experiences, we want you explore the possibilities of this transformation with us.

What will you discover?

On our industrial placement, you can immerse yourself in the inclusive, friendly culture we take pride in creating at Lloyd’s Banking Group. And alongside it, gain real work experience while you explore the many directions a career in technology could take you, if that’s what you choose to do after university.

From the moment you start, you’ll be working with experienced Engineers. You could be involved in large-scale projects, writing code in different languages, creating DevOps pipelines, building new features for our mobile app, helping to automate processes that save colleagues and customers time, plus much more.

Best of all, you’ll grow in a genuinely supportive environment where learning is central, flexible working is championed, and everyone is free to be themselves. Because we understand people do their best work when they feel valued, respected and trusted.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.