Lloyds Banking Group
Location
Edinburgh | United Kingdom
Job description
JOB TITLE: Java Engineer
SALARY: £68,202 to £75,780
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
Insurance & Wealth Transformation has a vision to improve the support we provide to our customers throughout their financial lives, empowering them to make the right decisions on their long-term saving, investment, and retirement needs. We are doing this by providing clear, straightforward customer journeys, supported by flexible and resilient product platforms and services.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key leadership role in our continued transformation journey by:
Defining, communicating and being responsible for our software engineering strategy, methods, and approaches; working with others to implement and embed within our end-to-end engineering activity
Working with teams and partners to define, agree and implement optimal software engineering approaches; utilising the right tools and techniques to achieve the best possible outcomes for the business
Leading, inspiring, and managing individuals to continually improve and develop their software engineering knowledge and capabilities; working in collaboration with other leaders to maximise the benefit of this capability within our teams
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
What you'll need
The knowledge and ability to apply and lead software engineering initiatives within a Lab, including technical deliveries and engineering improvements, utilising efficient agile methodologies such as Kanban/Scrum
A strong software engineering background with expertise in Java, Javascript / Springboot, NodeJS, React, Microservices, CI/CD, Shell or Python scripting development, testing and test automation
A good working knowledge of Identity & Access Management concepts, standard's and tools (such as Forgerock AM and DS)
A good understand of Cloud
Experience working with a broad set of GCP products (or extensive experience with another Cloud platforms such as OCP) for example.
Familiarisation with Linux/UNIX system administration including Git and Kubernetes
An understanding of how Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment operates and can be applied in a modern engineering environment
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 performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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Salary
£68.2k - £75.78k per annum
