End Date
Tuesday 24 December 2024 Salary Range
£68,202 - £102,303 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer   
Location: Edinburgh
Salary:  £68,202 - £75,780
Hours:  Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.
About us
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!
About this opportunity
Our Cash Management & Payments Platform, Core Banking & Payment Lab teams aim to deliver the highest quality software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting colleague development. This is a software engineering level role within the Lab that will blend deep domain / technical expertise with great passion for mentoring and developing software’s in delivering technical solutions to become the bank of the future.
A great opportunity has arisen within Liquidity Management feature team as a Software Engineer in the Core Banking & Payment Lab. You’ll collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams, driving efforts to create, build, support and improve our software. As a software engineer within the Lab, you’ll practice quality Engineering methods that align with Architectural and bank strategies.
You’ll be familiar with the group’s engineering design standards needed to engineer the best solutions and a strong proponent of coding best practises. You’ll be curious and innovative in your approach to learning, keen on learning while doing and supporting others to learn. 
What you’ll do
* As a Software Engineer, you’ll work with a range of key customers, external partners and our internal development and testing teams, to support the successful achievement of IT strategies.

* You’ll be responsible for delivering high quality maintainable software, support members of the team and support the applications developed and deployed by the team into production.

* Provide analytical support in various aspects of Application Maintenance (Production Support) particularly with respect to system monitoring, Daily and Weekly checks and handling anomalies and exceptions including timely reporting

* Codes, tests, debugs, documents, implements and maintains software applications

* Develop program logic for new applications or analyses and modifies logic in existing application

* Investigate and establish mitigation for production incidents

* Identify, design and implement technical solutions as both small enhancements and in response to incidents

* Contribute to technical design discussions to ensure optimal solutions are achieved

What you’ll need 
* Deep understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end-to-end delivery of software products.

* Hands on Software Engineering background with good technical experience building medium/large scale applications in Java, using a fairly broad set of tools, techniques, and platforms, including cloud hosting. 

* Experience programming in the following languages: Java, JavaScript, PowerShell or UNIX Bash/Shell scripting, SQL. 

* Extensive experience with Mainframe Environment, TWS Scheduler (OPCA) Job scheduling, JCL, SCM tool (ENDEVOR), Connect Direct scripting

* Strong Exposure to WAS application servers & Linux servers and experience with HTML, CSS, and related web technologies

* Understanding of Code Version controlling /Code deployment tools - GitHub, Jenkins and Urbancode.

It would be great if you also had
* Banking Domain knowledge and experience

* Direct Client facing experience including reporting and presentation

* Familiarity with public cloud and associated technologies (Azure, AWS or GCP)

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance.

* Share schemes including free shares.

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

* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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