Job Description

Software Engineer - Cash Management & Payments Platform
Location: Edinburgh

Hours: Full - time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

Annual Base Salatu: \xc2\xa366,861 - \xc2\xa374,290

plus, annual personal bonus, up to 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We provide our colleagues with number of free health and well-being offerings including life events & stages, disability support and generous parental / adoption leave policies.

We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working.

Who is Lloyds Banking Group?

At Lloyds Banking Group we\'re committed to transforming and redefining The UK\'s largest Digital Bank for our 18 million digital customers we have across our brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland.

LBG is on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we\'re redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.

Commercial Banking division has a rich heritage of supporting businesses and the economic prosperity of the nation, primarily focused on UK businesses and those with strong links to the UK.

Our Team

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.

What will I do?

You\'ll collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams, driving efforts to create, build, support and improve our software. As a Developer within the Lab, you\'ll champion quality engineering practices that align with Architectural and Group Transformation strategies.

You\'ll be responsible for supporting the infrastructure that underpins the application in both development and production environments. You will be a good problem solver, a focused and dedicated developer with the ability to work on your own as well as within a team.

What do we need from you?

In order to be considered, we would expect applicants to have all the following skills / experience:

DBA

Essential

• Operating system experience in Linux.
• Oracle management tools (Data Guard, RMAN, Data pump).
• Good problem solver, focused and dedicated developer with ability to work on your own as well as with a team.

Desirable

• Strong practical experience of ORACLE in a production RAC (ASM) environment (12c and 19c).
• Experience in creating a reliable backup strategy.

WAS

Essential

• Installation, implementation, upgrade, performance, security, patching and monitoring of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND) environments.
• Maximizing availability and performance for all WASND, WAS Liberty and IBM HTTP Server
• Experience on WebSphere Application Server Clustering (Horizontal & Vertical) for High Availability

Desirable

• Configuration and troubleshooting of data sources, JMS etc.
• Analysing heap dump, thread dump, high CPU utilization.
• Understanding of J2EE standards, JDBC configuration, JNDI Directory Services, SOAP and Webservices.
• Knowledge of SIBus and connectivity to MQ

What can we offer you in return?

In line with our strategy to be the Best Bank for Colleagues, we encourage a culture of professional development. You\'ll have numerous opportunities to stretch and develop beyond core role responsibilities. In addition, recognition for colleague contribution and performance is a truly meaningful element of our colleague charter.

You\'ll be rewarded with excellent benefits, personal development and a career that\'s enriching and full of opportunity!

As well as a competitive salary, you\'ll receive:

• A Discretionary Performance Share Award
• Generous pension contribution
• 30 Days leave plus bank holidays
• A flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits or take cash
• Private health cover
• Share Schemes

So why should you apply?

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.

We\'ll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We are passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families.

And we\'re proud to have received these industry recognitions: Stonewall Top Private Sector Employer, Top10 Employer for Working Families, The Times Top 50 Employer for Women and both Gold Standard and Best Workplace Adjustments Process from the Business Disability Forum.

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we\'d love to hear from you

Together we\'ll make it possible

Lloyds Banking Group