End Date
Tuesday 22 August 2023
Salary Range
£66,861 - £100,292
Agile Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
Job Title: Mainframe Software Engineer
Salary: £66,861 - £74,290
Location: Halifax
Hours: (Full time / Part Time)
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.
About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
About this opportunity
Our team in the Homes Platform is passionate about creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience.
Our culture brings together inquisitive, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working. Our mortgage labs are passionate about improving the customer experience and support them throughout their home purchase journey and the subsequent lifetime of their mortgage whether bought directly from one of our UK wide brands or via an external broker.
Alongside others, you'll engineer business requirements into technical solutions to update and improve the customer and colleague experience throughout our home buying experience
You'll bring a dynamism, showing you're an adaptable individual, able to learn and use new skills in varying circumstances
You want to continuously improve what we do and how we do it
You'll contribute to a robust team environment
Play a key role in building or enhancing of our sales journeys across multiple channels
Delivering value in a cross-disciplinary mortgages team in addition to being a member of our wider Lloyds Engineering team which will provide opportunities to learn exemplary software engineering practices and skills, whilst working in a synergetic and agile environment.
What you’ll need
Experience in software development using the IBM Mainframe COBOL programming language using DB2, CICS, ISPF, JCL, TWS
Design and Build capability of components that form part of sophisticated multi-tier applications
Good understanding of SOAP using XML and JSON web-services
Experience of delivering web-services using CICS
Exposure to using modern mainframe development tools like Topaz Workbench, IBM Developer for z/OS, VSCode, zOWE, Git
Knowledge of automation tools like Jenkins, UCD
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.