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End Date Wednesday 30 October 2024 Salary Range £68,202 - £102,303 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary . Job...

End Date

Wednesday 30 October 2024

Salary Range

£68,202 - £102,303

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Java Engineer

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity: 

Insurance Pensions and Investments (IP&I) has a vision to improve the support we provide to our customers throughout their financial lives, empowering them to make the right decisions on their long-term saving, investment, and retirement needs. We are doing this by providing clear, straightforward customer journeys, supported by flexible and resilient product platforms and services. 

Through the ongoing development, modernisation and simplification of the shared platforms and services that sit at the heart of IP&I , the Complex Pensions & Migrations Lab plays a key role in the realisation of this vision. 

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll play a key role in our continued transformation journey by:

  • Helping us define and communicate our engineering strategy, methods, and approaches; working with others to implement and embed within our end-to-end engineering activity 
  • Working with teams and partners to define, agree and implement optimal approaches; utilising the right tools and techniques to achieve the best possible outcomes for the business 
  • Leading, inspiring, and managing individuals to continually improve and develop their engineering knowledge and capabilities; working in collaboration with other leaders to maximise the benefit of this capability within our teams 

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

Our Team develops and maintain applications using modern tooling and technologies, in an Agile environment within a wider Financial Services domain. We need a Software Engineering leader with broad capabilities and experience, including:  

  • The knowledge and ability to lead software engineering initiatives, including technical deliveries and engineering improvements using Agile methodologies underpinned by Jira
  • The passion to lead and mentor software engineers within the team, driving a collaborative culture  
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills and a passion for advocating quality across Product & Engineering  
  • Significant exposure to and applicable skill in modern web technologies, especially Java, Docker, Apache Struts, Java Server Pages, HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS, WebSphere. 
  • Deep knowledge of modern software development pipeline toolsets including Jenkins, Git and quality scanning apps like SonarQube and NexusIQ 
  • Solid experience within a modern software engineering team dealing directly with stakeholders from other parts of the business to understand requirements and translate into solutions using a spread of technologies.  This should include experience of integrating software built by other teams and/or 3rd party suppliers. 

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.

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