Software Engineer - Core Banking

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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

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

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

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 underrepresented 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.

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.