Lloyds Banking Group Hiring for Software Engineer Job at Edinburgh, Scotland Full Time

Grade

E

End Date

Tuesday 05 April 2022

Salary Range

£52,912 – £66,140

Agile Working Options

Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Description Summary

Aims to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model.

Job Description

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re inspired by a clear purpose; to Help Britain Recover. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. We’re on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it. We’re redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, culture, and our mindsets are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.

We’re creating new opportunities and products to improve customer experiences for years to come. With our business evolving to more modern and flexible ways of working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals who join us on this journey.

We’re looking for someone who loves technology and its application to real-world problems. A ‘great teammate’ who can establish relationships and work efficiently with others to help lead and deliver high quality technical solutions.

Where does the role sit within Lloyds Banking Group?

Lloyds Banking Group are redefining the way we do Engineering. We’ve created “LBG Labs” and we’re building multi-functional, co-located teams giving them freedom to bring technology to the forefront of our business. This will create new, and improve existing, products and services to help us really make a difference to our customers.

Insurance & Wealth Transformation is the division you would sit within the Financial Planning & Retirement Value Stream, which has ambitious plans to significantly grow our engineering teams.

Our Insurance & Wealth (I&W) Labs are focused on improving support to our customers throughout their financial lives, with clear, straightforward customer journeys, helping empower them to make the right decisions on their long-term Saving, Investment & Retirement needs.

About the role:

The role will require you to utilise your skills to build new digital features – possible examples being on demand video, analytics & insight and direct payroll integration – whilst transforming the application architecture to be micro-services based. As a strong advocate for driving engineering excellence you’ll work collaboratively with other team members, partners and third parties to build empowered teams who are motivated to solve business problems and realise

value to customers.

So what are we looking for in you?

• Broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence

• You’ll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions.

• You’re 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.

• As a leader and motivator you’ll nurture team members to create a robust team culture.

• And you’ll influence positively – demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

We’ll be specifically looking for these skills on your CV:

• Solid understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in end to end delivery of software products.

• Extensive experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of leading & working as part of an agile team

• Strong software development background essential, along with knowledge of modern software development toolsets including Cloud hosting, Containers, Kubernetes, Web App development, API’s, DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery.

• You’ll have an understanding of the entire application stack, deep and broad knowledge, and significant exposure to modern web technologies, especially JavaScript (ideally Node.js and react.js) as well as, ideally, Java, XML, SQL / Nosql, Docker, RESTful APIs and web services.

• You’ll also have an understanding of how to design low-latency, high-availability and performant applications

If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture focused on making a difference.

Together we’ll make it possible…

So what can we offer you in return?

Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity.

You’ll also receive a package that includes

• Discretionary bonus

• Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits or simply take the cash

• Private Medical Insurance

• Pension, where we’ll give up to a max of 15%

• Share plans

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we’d love to hear from you…

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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’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.