Engineering Transformation
That Delivers Results
25+ years helping financial services, retail, automotive and tech organisations build high-performing Agile engineering teams, recover at-risk programmes, and drive measurable delivery improvement.
What We Offer
Practical, outcome-focused consultancy for engineering leaders and their organisations. Every engagement is grounded in real-world experience — not theory.
Agile Transformation
Embedding Agile at scale across financial services, retail and automotive organisations — coaching Engineering Managers, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to build self-sustaining, high-performing teams that continue to improve long after the engagement ends.
Engineering Leadership Coaching
Developing Engineering Managers and tech leads into confident, effective leaders. Hands-on, outcome-focused coaching that builds capability within your organisation rather than creating dependency on external support.
DevOps & Delivery Improvement
Using DORA and Flow metrics to identify exactly where your delivery pipeline is losing speed. Practical changes to deployment practices, CI/CD pipelines and team processes that double throughput without burning out your engineers.
Programme Recovery
Rapid, structured recovery of at-risk programmes — diagnosing root causes, rebuilding stakeholder confidence, reprioritising the backlog and creating a credible, achievable path back to delivery. Specialised in complex multi-vendor and distributed environments.
AI Tooling & Shift-Left QA
Embedding AI-assisted tooling across requirements, test case generation and code development to expose defects earlier, accelerate throughput and reduce costly rework. Proven at scale in heavily regulated financial services environments.
Team Building & Scaling
End-to-end hiring strategy, onboarding programme design and capability uplift — building and scaling distributed engineering teams across UK and international locations while reducing ramp-up time significantly.
How We Work
Every engagement follows the same principle: understand the real problem first, then fix it properly.
Diagnose Before Acting
We start by understanding your actual situation — not by applying a generic framework. Whether it is delivery pace, team health, technical debt or stakeholder trust, we identify the root cause before recommending any change.
Hands-On Delivery
We work alongside your teams, not above them. Coaching happens in the flow of real work — sprint ceremonies, backlogs, pipelines, and one-to-ones — not in isolated training rooms.
Measurable Outcomes
Every engagement is tracked against concrete metrics: sprint reliability, deployment frequency, defect rates, team velocity. We set baselines on day one and measure progress throughout.
Sectors & Clients
Experience across a wide range of industries and organisations
Lothringer has delivered engineering transformation engagements across financial services, retail, eCommerce, automotive, sports technology, logistics, payments and life sciences — working with teams ranging from five to forty engineers in both UK and international settings.
Ready to Transform Your Engineering Delivery?
Whether you need to recover a struggling programme, embed Agile at scale, or uplift your engineering leadership — let's talk.
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