Software Engineer

End Date Thursday 23 February 2023 Salary Range £0 - £0
Agile Working Options Flexible / Variable Hours Job Description Summary Our Cash Management & Payments Platform, GEM & Payment Direct Channels 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. Job Description Software Engineer Edinburgh based (2 days in the office) Salary & Benefits: annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We’re a family friendly organisation who focus on delivery, not time at your desk. A mature, flexible work environment, flexible start/finish hours, agile working practices. We care about your mental health and want to enable a good work-life balance. Who are Lloyds Banking Group? Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading digital franchise, with over 13 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. We're building the bank of the future, and we need your help. Where will this role sit? A great opportunity has arisen within the Payment Direct Channels feature team as a Software Engineer in the GEM & Payment Direct Channels 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 champion quality Engineering practices that align with Architectural and bank strategies. Lloyds Banking Group are redefining the way Engineering is carried out. We’ve created “LBG Labs” and we're building multi-functional, co-located teams giving them freedom to bring technology to the forefront of our business. This will help us create new, and improve existing, products and services to help us really make a difference to our customers. A Lab is a co-located team working together on key projects to deliver value at pace by designing services that people find useful, easy and engaging to use. Typically, a Lab has a strong focus on problem solving in an agile environment where engineers are free to experiment and create innovative products which will transform the way our customers engage with us. We're passionate about providing innovative solutions to support our customers in managing their Business cash-flow efficiently. This underpins our role in Helping Britain Recover and ultimately Prosper. Here's where you'll make a difference: Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Cash management and payments technology landscape, enabling the Bank of the Future and ultimately driving value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role at the financial heart of LBG, underpinning the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation. Specifically you’ll:

• Contribute to setting the strategic direction for application development within the team.
• Ensure that software is built in a way that is consistent with the core Architectural frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider Engineering community.
• Work with Architects, providing input for key solution design artefacts.
• Be aware of industry innovation, and gain exposure to the knowledge required to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist.

Our Software Engineers should have skills and experience that enable them to design innovative solutions in an increasingly digital world. Understanding how modern software applications are built and delivered is key. In order to be seriously considered, we would expect applicants to have the following skills / experience : Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, design and implement technical solutions as part of the ongoing platform engineering, including scaling, efficiency and performance tuning
• Contribute to technical design discussions to ensure optimal solutions are achieved
• Work in a highly collaborative Engineering team to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are sophisticated and often non-routine.
• Work closely with BAs and Product Owner to ensure requirements are clearly defined, tickets meet DoR and DoD criteria
• Follow the code engineering, code management and deployment processes of the team
• Understand business & lab priorities and conduct personal work and time management accordingly
• Work independently and take ownership whilst using own initiative
• Solid understanding of end-to-end SDLC
• Sound understanding and hands on experience of agile Development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment and Test Automation (BDD), GHE Source code Management and the E2E software development lifecycle

Key Skills: with solid experience of:

• Java / Java Script (Spring, Spring Boot, Node JS)
• Experience in working with Kafka , Microsoft Azure and IBM Aurora cloud servers
• Experience in relational databases (SQL or Oracle, etc)
• Experience in usage of Websphere / Collective controller / IHS
• Dev Ops Tooling : Jenkins / Maven / GitHub / Urban code / Dynatrace / Splunk and etc.
• Development of effective working relationships with partners and include qualities such as ethics, trustworthiness, and personal organisation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Hands-on experience on Microservices and exposing them as REST / SOAP API’s
• Experience in deploying services in on-prem and containerised (Kubernetes) environment
• Experience in Cloud deployments and providing solutions in hybrid cloud environment

What do I get in return? We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential. As a new colleague, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain, and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel welcomed and valued. We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation. Together we make it possible! 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'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.