Senior Software Engineer (AEM)

End Date

Wednesday 27 November 2024

Salary Range

£78,849 - £118,274

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Group strategic view by working closely & collaboratively across the Platform leadership team to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. PEC enables & delivers personalised customer communications & experiences across all channels, media and business areas supporting the Customer Relationship Growth strategy to deepen relationships with our customers across both the retail & commercial bank. This includes the data, analytics, and technology to unlock the value of differentiating our branded channel experiences, proposition, price and communication; as well as paper-free sustainable ambitions.


This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Software Engineer. As the Software Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.


Here's where you’ll make a difference

An ideal Software Engineer will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence. We are looking for a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You'll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

Job Description

JOB TITLE:  Senior Software Engineer (AEM)

SALARY: £78,849 - £87,610

LOCATION: London

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the London office.

About this opportunity

Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Group strategic view by working closely & collaboratively across the Platform leadership team to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. PEC enables & delivers personalised customer communications & experiences across all channels, media and business areas supporting the Customer Relationship Growth strategy to deepen relationships with our customers across both the retail & commercial bank. This includes the data, analytics, and technology to unlock the value of differentiating our branded channel experiences, proposition, price and communication; as well as paper-free sustainable ambitions.

This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Senior Software Engineer. As the Senior Software Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.

You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll also be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

Key Capabilities Include:

• Build efficient and reusable content management systems and abstractions
• Find and address performance issues plus Root Cause Analysis
• Identify general improvements and implement standard methodologies as part of build activities.
• Collaborate with the product/design team to iterate the design function and implement the products
• Collaborate with Engineers to build features and experiments

About us We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive. 

What you’ll need

• Experience with creating and maintaining workflows in AEM
• Professional experience working in AEM version 6.5 and AEM as a Cloud Service.
• Broad understanding across Adobe Experience Cloud (Assets, Sites, Target, Analytics)
• Experience and understanding of Digital Asset Management (DAM)
• Exposure to git & GitHub, Jenkins, strong DevOps capabilities, Cloud
• Experience of Adobe Cloud Manager and Adobe Admin Console
• Able to work with Servlets, OSGI services, Product Customisations, Dispatcher configurations and Schedulers.
• Exposure with modern JavaScript libraries/tooling, such as Reactjs, Redux, Webpack
• Experience in development using various Web technologies (e.g. like JS, AJAX, CSS, HTML5, React)
• Experience on Front-End test automation

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Server-side REST APIs and JSON
• AEM as a Cloud Service experience
• Experience in Servlet and JSP/HTL development, Touch UI
• Experience with MAVEN, Apache Sling and Apache Felix
• Able to create a custom OSGI configuration and JCR queries
• Understanding of AEM users/user groups and permissions
• Exposure to Adobe Workfront and Fusion.
• AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) developer certification

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

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.