Internet Banking Software Engineer

End Date Thursday 06 April 2023 Salary Range £71,577 - £103,389
Agile Working Options Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working Job Description Summary An Internet Banking Software engineer is required to manage a team within the Channels Enabling Lab responsible for a range of Internet Banking “Route to Live” environments ensuring that they are designed and maintained to meet our commitments to providing our customers the ability to deliver and test changes at an ever-increasing pace, whilst ensuring that resiliency, security, and quality remain uncompromised. Job Description The purpose of the team is to;

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  Underpin the LBG purpose of Being the Best Bank for customers by ensuring a robust, reliable infrastructure that supports the services we deliver to our customers.

The Lab is:

• A sophisticated portfolio of customer facing applications which provides a wide variety of opportunity in diverse areas of technology, with an ongoing desire to bridge new cloud technologies with more traditional IT.
• Passionate about providing modern, sustainable, technical solutions ensuring services the bank provide are robust, secure, and fit for purpose.

Want to be part of our journey as a Bank to redefine from the inside out how we serve over 26 million customers? Passionate about the power to be unleashed when combining next generation cloud technology with customer data and insight? Want to join a diverse and ambitious team that is building the Bank of the future? If the answer to these questions is yes, we would love to hear from you. are committed to providing equal opportunities! We recognise that diversity and inclusion are central to our business success. Our customer base is very diverse and ensuring that we understand and meet their needs is essential. Reflecting the diversity of the UK in our own workforce helps us to achieve that goal. As a result, we encourage an environment where everyone can provide excellent service to our diverse customers and develop their individual careers, whatever their background
What can you expect! Reporting into the Lab Engineering Lead, the successful colleague will take ownership for the high-level cost estimation, solution design and engineering of infrastructure solutions across the Internet estate. Job Description Here’s how you’ll make a difference:

• Working with Colleagues from across the organisation to deliver modernisation improvements across the internet banking Infrastructure estate
• Lead proof of concept work to refine option for future strategic upgrade.
• Management of the component teams delivering environment requests for the various projects within the programme initiative.
• Assisting project defect managers in defect analysis to identify and resolve any Internet Banking test environment specific defects.
• Communication with a variety of our customers across various parts of the organisation on the progress of environment provisioning and the management and mitigation of any risks or delays to the completion of the work.
• Coordinating the various projects within an overall Internet Banking Business Release as they progress through route to live and into production including the resolution of conflicting project priorities within the release.
• Resolving conflicts as needed to protect the overall release in the event of slippage or change by individual projects, co-ordinating communications with individual project’s accountable executives as required.
• Defining and agreeing the content of each release and ensuring that the component projects understand their responsibilities as a part of an Internet / Open Banking Business Release.
• Identifying and ensuring delivery of Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) needs, taking into account data management and data volume considerations.

Essential Skills:

• A technical background with a broad depth of IT infrastructure experience that gives you an understanding of the bigger picture.
• Proven demonstrable experience of:

Server technologies

• Windows Server
• WebSphere Application Server
• WebSphere Liberty
• Linux
• AIX
• Oracle DB / SQL

Cloud Technologies

• Knowledge of Google / Azure Cloud
• Experience of delivering containerisation solutions for existing legacy applications, including the use of Docker

DevOps tooling and automation, including the use of:

• GitHub
• Jenkins
• Urban Code Deploy
• Rapid Deploy

Alerting and Monitoring configuration:

• Splunk
• Dynatrace
• Grafana

• Ability to prioritise a varied workload, you might be running with multiple projects with different dates and contending priorities for delivery using waterfall or agile delivery methodologies and tools – JIRA / Confluence.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates excellent social skills and can optimally demonstrate strong negotiation and influencing techniques when required.
• Adopts a collaborative, proactive and motivated approach, with the ability to lead and deliver through others.
• Takes full ownership and accountability for tasks assigned to them.
• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to make good judgements.
• The ability to multitask and handle full workloads and tight deadlines. Is both delivery and quality focussed.

Together we'll make it possible...So what can we offer you in return? You’ll be given the opportunity to join a committed group of individuals responsible for the delivery of LBG strategic work which aligns with Bank & Industry roadmaps. Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity. We deeply value diversity and are proudly committed to being an equal opportunity employer. If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture focused team. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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. 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.