End Date
Tuesday 03 December 2024
Salary Range
£68,202 - £102,303
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer – Core Banking
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION: Manchester
HOURS: 35 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
Core Banking is a key platform for Lloyds Banking Group with a very broad reach across the Bank’s customer base and a diverse partner group. The platform includes the Core Banking System and Vault Banking Products labs who support the run and change needed to operate all current account and savings account products for the LBG brands, product APIs, transaction and statement services that are needed for channel and customer interactions.
Our mission is to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it! We have an opening for a Software Engineer for the Core Banking System team (CBS) which is a flexible and multi-skilled team based in central Manchester. Our purpose is to provide market-leading customer experience through the servicing of PCA and Savings accounts via multiple channels, including digital for 30 million customers and 61 million accounts.
What will I be doing?
* Collaborative working with a small team of engineers delivering and testing change on CBS
* Working with the Lab Engineering Lead to understand the strategic direction for the application, ensuring it remains viable and resilient and aligns to agreed architectural principles
* Coaching and mentoring the engineers to uplift overall capability and build skills for the future
* Building relationships across the bank and being comfortable working in an agile environment to deliver customer-driven solutions and high-quality software
What you’ll need
* Good understanding of design and build activities across the lifecycle - unit testing, system testing and integration testing
* Experience in development & testing on Unisys Mainframe, COBOL, C, JCL
* Testing experience (manual or automated) including writing test scripts, performing code reviews and production/review of user documentation
* Work with the deployment team to roll out new changes and support them when required in triaging production issues
* Reviewing design proposals, acceptance criteria and processes, and recommend improvements
* Investigating user problems referred to you by the Product teams, testing defect fixes, and creating and managing defect reports
* Participation in the agile process to produce more rapid delivery, supporting projects and programmes across the organisation
* Mentoring and development of more junior engineers, providing clear and constructive feedback and building opportunities for learning and growth
* Experience with Software Engineering collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence etc.
* Understanding of CI/CD methodology and tools such as Jenkins
* Experience of resolution of live production incidents
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
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.
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.
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