The event will be a unique opportunity to learn about the development and growth of Lloyds Banking Group’s Homes Platform. The Homes platform are primarily a West Yorkshire-based team with offices in Leeds and Halifax. They are responsible for delivering the change agenda to drive business growth and customer and colleague experience for the UK’s biggest mortgage lender. Hear from the Engineering Leadership on a range of topics aligned to engineering excellence.
About the agenda:
Three 30-minute sessions focused on learning lessons from experimentation.
- The Fin Ops Challenge. Hear about how we have leveraged FinOps tooling to make visible and optimise our consumption of public cloud resources to reduce the total cost of ownership.
Speaker: Billy-Joe Meredith
- Measuring Software Engineers Satisfaction. Find out what we have learnt as we surveyed our engineering teams on what prevents them from being more productive. Some predictable themes but also a few surprises.
Speaker: Johnathan Hayton.
- Building a diverse engineering capability in West Yorkshire. Fireside chat and Q&A where Richard will discuss some of the challenges faced in recruiting diverse talent in the region and recent success stories.
Speaker: Richard Welch.
About the speakers:
- Billy-Joe Meredith – Digital Engineering Lead at Lloyds Banking Group for Homes Platform. He is responsible for public facing direct customer journeys. He is the cloud FinOps and sustainability champion with extensive experience in agile transformation, cloud adoption and DevOps practises.
- Johnathan Hayton – Engineering Lead at Lloyds Banking Group for Mortgage Intermediaries. He is responsible for the systems used by Mortgage Brokers. Has expertise in digital transformation, agile delivery and large transformation projects.
- Richard Welch – Technical Platform Lead at Lloyds Banking Group for Homes Platform. He is responsible for c.400 Software Engineers, Quality Engineers and Solution Architects across the 40 teams that make up the homes platform.
Professionals interested in software engineering and building effective teams.
