Senior Software Engineer Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
66861 - 100292 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 30 August 2023
Salary Range
£66,861 - £100,292Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
Join us as a Software Engineer and play a key role in driving creation of quality software solutions into production for our Insurance and Wealth mainframe platform. You’ll deliver customer driven solutions whilst reducing risk by implementing the right level of engineering change through Agile development and testing. Delivery driving speed to market to the highest quality.Our Retirement Platform Software Engineers build and improve our development practices, leading by example as we deliver improvements to our systems and development approaches.
You’ll balance the use of hands-on engineering expertise and working collaboratively with the wider engineering community including Business Analysts, Quality Engineers and Proposition Development.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
SALARY: £66,861 - £78,000
LOCATION: Edinburgh
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
Join us as a Software Engineer and play a key role in driving the creation of quality software solutions into production for our Insurance and Wealth mainframe platform. You’ll deliver customer driven solutions whilst reducing risk by implementing the right level of engineering change through Agile development and testing. Delivery driving speed to market to the highest quality.
Our Retirement Platform Software Engineers build and improve our development practices, leading by example as we deliver improvements to our systems and development approaches.
You’ll balance the use of hands-on engineering expertise and working collaboratively with the wider engineering community including Business Analysts, Quality Engineers and Proposition Development.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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
- Extensive experience within a modern software engineering team analysing, designing and building solutions using a spread of IBM zSeries technologies
- A particular focus on IBM IMS, COBOL, JCL and DB2 technologies. Knowledge of CA Technologies Endevor is highly desirable
- This should include experience of investigating existing complex mainframe solutions built by other teams and/or 3rd party suppliers
- A good understanding of Annuities and wider Life and Pension products is highly desirable.
- An improvement driven approach to software engineering with a passion for enhancing the way we deliver software at the same time as software delivery itself.
- A good understanding of quality software engineering and structuring applications to support testing.
- Experience working within an agile working environment and Scrum or Kanban.
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 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
Finishing Statement
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.
