Infrastructure Solution Manager

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Our vision is to make Lloyds Banking Group the best bank for customers. As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and to put customers at the heart of everything we do. To achieve this, we also need to be the best bank for our colleagues and our communities - and we have a clear strategy in place to make this a reality. We are building on our many strengths: iconic brands, strong heritages and great people. To unlock the great potential in our business, we are becoming more efficient, more transparent, and more responsive to customers. Already the UK's largest community investor, we are giving even more back. Above all, we are putting customers first.

This role can be based in Pudsey, Copley, Manchester, London, or Edinburgh

At Lloyds Banking Group our vision is to be the best bank for our customers. By putting customers first, keeping banking simple and making a difference together, we'll help Britain prosper.

Can you help us drive change on every front?

The sheer pace and scale of change taking place across our business means there couldn't be a more exciting time to join us. So if you can manage projects through from feasibility to implementation, you'll never be short of a new challenge. You'll be responsible for everything from building relationships with stakeholders and agreeing project milestones to controlling budgets and managing risks. Succeed here and you can look forward to taking the next step up the career ladder or broadening your experience across bigger and more complex workstreams. You should have a proven track record of delivering infrastructure designs on single platforms or technologies, with the ability to identify projects that pose risks to service, implementation and support.

The Infrastructure Solution Manager provides a single interface within Service Delivery for significant IT Projects to assure fitness for Service, Implementation and Support. This will involve co-ordination and consultancy for Projects for a single business area, which will change or extend existing infrastructure.

Through your stakeholder & influencing skills you should be able to demonstrate 360 degree communication ranging from senior executive stakeholders to implementation teams, and have experience in leading a virtual team from study phase onwards.

To qualify, you'll need experience of managing projects, working with third party suppliers and managing stakeholders, backed up by an APM or similar methodology. You should be comfortable in presentation & negotiation. Strong in creating and leading virtual teams from the Service Delivery supply lines to support the study phases of significant projects. Within this you should have a proven record in providing resource profiles and forecasts for significant projects.

We are looking for people who can demonstrate experience & knowledge in the following IT platforms:

- Mainframe, Mid-range (Unix) and Distributed (Windows)

- Hardware (Servers, storage etc.)

- Middleware (File Transfer Message Transfer etc.)

Infrastructure interfaces and protocols (Data Networks, Firewalls etc.)

In relation to budget portfolio size we are looking for candidates that have experience of significant portfolio value (£5 million plus) or equivalent.

It would be desirable if you have good awareness of IT Architectural processes, Infrastructure and/or Application change in a large financial services environment and understand the current trends within the IT industry.

Prince II or APM equivalent required.

In return, we'll recognise and reward your performance. Our award-winning benefits package includes a flexible option that allows you to choose cash or pick from a wide range of benefits. These include a contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance and retail discount vouchers. You'll also have our full support, training and opportunities for both personal and professional development.

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