JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (Innovation & Emerging Tech Team) 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 This role sits in our Innovation and Emerging Tech team. We want to build a future where customers choose Lloyds because we regularly launch new products and services that make their financial lives better. This is a unique chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and values creation! We're looking for 'full-stack' Software Engineers to be part of a new Engineering Innovation team. This new team will be dynamic, versatile and adaptive, with a core purpose on research, experimentation and building prototypes, that could be deployed at scale across the organisation. So, what would you be doing for us? The exciting bit! As a software engineer in the team, you'll be primarily responsible for the design, build and test of engineering innovation experiments. You'll be directly responsible for writing and maintaining code base, and as such you'll have deep expertise in modern 'full-stack' programming languages and technologies. You'll also demonstrate continuous personal development in new & emerging programming languages and technologies. You'll be conversant in Quality Engineering (QE) and DevOps processes and technologies. As well as DBT and code execution, you'll also be responsible for crafting and maintaining appropriate user documentation. You'll collaborate closely with internal partners across the Group's engineering and architecture communities, ensuring all our experiments maintain standards of engineering excellence and alignment to strategic technology direction. 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. 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 A deep working experience across a range of 'full-stack' programming languages. It is not expected that you'll have all the technical skills listed below. However, you should be able to demonstrate you possess a range of these, at a proficient level: Front-end, e.g., Javascript/JS Frameworks, HTML/CSS Mid-tier, e.g., API, ReST, Web Server, SSO, IAM Server-side & database, e.g., Java, C#, GoLang, Node.JS, Python, SQL Server, Cockroach, MongoDB Mobile, e.g., Swift, Android Core cloud platforms, e.g., Google, Azure, AWS DevOps & CICD, e.g., Jenkins, Urban Code, Atlassian, GitHub, MS Team Foundation Server, SonarQube, Kubernetes And any experience of these would be really useful Practical knowledge on software development processes Engineering experience working within an Agile framework Systems design thinking and solution architecture Practical experience crafting technical documentation Collaboration; working effectively alongside engineering teams, technical specialists, product owners, vendors and partners. You can hold productive communications to ensure experiments are clearly scoped and implemented 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.
Apr 17, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (Innovation & Emerging Tech Team) 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 This role sits in our Innovation and Emerging Tech team. We want to build a future where customers choose Lloyds because we regularly launch new products and services that make their financial lives better. This is a unique chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and values creation! We're looking for 'full-stack' Software Engineers to be part of a new Engineering Innovation team. This new team will be dynamic, versatile and adaptive, with a core purpose on research, experimentation and building prototypes, that could be deployed at scale across the organisation. So, what would you be doing for us? The exciting bit! As a software engineer in the team, you'll be primarily responsible for the design, build and test of engineering innovation experiments. You'll be directly responsible for writing and maintaining code base, and as such you'll have deep expertise in modern 'full-stack' programming languages and technologies. You'll also demonstrate continuous personal development in new & emerging programming languages and technologies. You'll be conversant in Quality Engineering (QE) and DevOps processes and technologies. As well as DBT and code execution, you'll also be responsible for crafting and maintaining appropriate user documentation. You'll collaborate closely with internal partners across the Group's engineering and architecture communities, ensuring all our experiments maintain standards of engineering excellence and alignment to strategic technology direction. 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. 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 A deep working experience across a range of 'full-stack' programming languages. It is not expected that you'll have all the technical skills listed below. However, you should be able to demonstrate you possess a range of these, at a proficient level: Front-end, e.g., Javascript/JS Frameworks, HTML/CSS Mid-tier, e.g., API, ReST, Web Server, SSO, IAM Server-side & database, e.g., Java, C#, GoLang, Node.JS, Python, SQL Server, Cockroach, MongoDB Mobile, e.g., Swift, Android Core cloud platforms, e.g., Google, Azure, AWS DevOps & CICD, e.g., Jenkins, Urban Code, Atlassian, GitHub, MS Team Foundation Server, SonarQube, Kubernetes And any experience of these would be really useful Practical knowledge on software development processes Engineering experience working within an Agile framework Systems design thinking and solution architecture Practical experience crafting technical documentation Collaboration; working effectively alongside engineering teams, technical specialists, product owners, vendors and partners. You can hold productive communications to ensure experiments are clearly scoped and implemented 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.
JOB TITLE: Azure Cloud Engineer Lead SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310 for outside London and £100,657 - £118,420 LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh & London 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 our office site. About this opportunity: The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Azure Engineering team within the Cloud Native engineering Lab. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK. We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our Azure platform. The ideal candidate will have experience in software engineering and architecture, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll have worked hands-on and broadly with Azure technologies and bring T-shaped expertise in a particular field such as Kubernetes, Networking, API, Databases, Virtual Machines or Serverless. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What will you be doing with us? You'll lead or contribute to the architectural design of cloud platform technologies and products across our ecosystem. You'll be able to get hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis - leading by example. Be proficient in leading technical conversations with stakeholders of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering cloud engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling Be an SME in a particular aspect of cloud engineering or product category. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What you'll need: SME/Advanced skills in at least one of: Azure Kubernetes Service & Istio, Azure Networking, Azure Databases, Azure API Management, Azure Native VM technologies, Azure Virtualisation Service (certifications desirable). Strong experience of security configuration management via guardrails (Org Policy, Azure Policy, OPA) Strong experience of writing and contributing Terraform/ARM/Bicep to curate cloud infrastructure for enterprise Great understanding of Cloud Native engineering principles and experience of delivering systems based on them. Experience of building DevSecOps approach to infrastructure as code and application CI/CD Understanding of cloud security best practises and principles for enterprise Usage of enterprise Secret Management solutions including Azure Key Vault and Hashicorp Vault Appreciation of network security fundamentals - WAF/WAP/Firewalls and ingress/egress patterns Experience of Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps or Harness.io (desirable) 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 Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
Apr 17, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Azure Cloud Engineer Lead SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310 for outside London and £100,657 - £118,420 LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh & London 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 our office site. About this opportunity: The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Azure Engineering team within the Cloud Native engineering Lab. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK. We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our Azure platform. The ideal candidate will have experience in software engineering and architecture, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll have worked hands-on and broadly with Azure technologies and bring T-shaped expertise in a particular field such as Kubernetes, Networking, API, Databases, Virtual Machines or Serverless. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What will you be doing with us? You'll lead or contribute to the architectural design of cloud platform technologies and products across our ecosystem. You'll be able to get hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis - leading by example. Be proficient in leading technical conversations with stakeholders of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering cloud engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling Be an SME in a particular aspect of cloud engineering or product category. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What you'll need: SME/Advanced skills in at least one of: Azure Kubernetes Service & Istio, Azure Networking, Azure Databases, Azure API Management, Azure Native VM technologies, Azure Virtualisation Service (certifications desirable). Strong experience of security configuration management via guardrails (Org Policy, Azure Policy, OPA) Strong experience of writing and contributing Terraform/ARM/Bicep to curate cloud infrastructure for enterprise Great understanding of Cloud Native engineering principles and experience of delivering systems based on them. Experience of building DevSecOps approach to infrastructure as code and application CI/CD Understanding of cloud security best practises and principles for enterprise Usage of enterprise Secret Management solutions including Azure Key Vault and Hashicorp Vault Appreciation of network security fundamentals - WAF/WAP/Firewalls and ingress/egress patterns Experience of Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps or Harness.io (desirable) 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 Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
End Date Wednesday 24 April 2024 Salary Range £66,861 - £74,290 We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary JOB TITLE: Dev Ops Engineer LOCATION(S): Bristol HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions. A DevOps is not a thing you do but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context - why they matter, what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation. It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate. Job Description JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer SALARY: £68,202-£75,780 per annum (plus benefits) LOCATION: Bristol HOURS: Full time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Bristol office site ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing, and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions. A DevOps is not a thing you do but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context - why they matter, what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation. It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate. Here s where you ll make a difference: You have can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy. Tools we commonly used to build automated release pipelines in LBG: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD, GitOps NexusIQ, SonarQube Expert in Docker & Kubernetes. Bonus if you are CKAD certified. Hands on Cloud experience with both public Cloud experience - ideally with GCP, Azure ABOUT US Like the modern Britain we serve, we re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too WHAT YOU'LL NEED We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you amazing! As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated core, hands-on experience the below: Cloud/DevOps experience Public cloud experience (utilising Terraform) with a similar sized organisation Experience in a similar sized company utilising DevOps practices in the Cloud Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation. Containerisation Kubernetes and Docker Programming/Scripting in: Java, Golang & JavaScript and/or Bash Source code repositories Particularly Git Software Development Life Cycle Full project life cycle experience (from inception through to production) and including: Continuous integration, Automated deployments, Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven, nm.) In addition, any of the below, would also be beneficial: Knowledge of fundamentals cloud architecture and security concepts Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage, e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef 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.
Apr 12, 2024
Full time
End Date Wednesday 24 April 2024 Salary Range £66,861 - £74,290 We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary JOB TITLE: Dev Ops Engineer LOCATION(S): Bristol HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions. A DevOps is not a thing you do but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context - why they matter, what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation. It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate. Job Description JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer SALARY: £68,202-£75,780 per annum (plus benefits) LOCATION: Bristol HOURS: Full time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Bristol office site ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing, and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions. A DevOps is not a thing you do but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context - why they matter, what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation. It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate. Here s where you ll make a difference: You have can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy. Tools we commonly used to build automated release pipelines in LBG: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD, GitOps NexusIQ, SonarQube Expert in Docker & Kubernetes. Bonus if you are CKAD certified. Hands on Cloud experience with both public Cloud experience - ideally with GCP, Azure ABOUT US Like the modern Britain we serve, we re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too WHAT YOU'LL NEED We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you amazing! As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated core, hands-on experience the below: Cloud/DevOps experience Public cloud experience (utilising Terraform) with a similar sized organisation Experience in a similar sized company utilising DevOps practices in the Cloud Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation. Containerisation Kubernetes and Docker Programming/Scripting in: Java, Golang & JavaScript and/or Bash Source code repositories Particularly Git Software Development Life Cycle Full project life cycle experience (from inception through to production) and including: Continuous integration, Automated deployments, Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven, nm.) In addition, any of the below, would also be beneficial: Knowledge of fundamentals cloud architecture and security concepts Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage, e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef 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.
End Date Thursday 18 April 2024 Salary Range £86,964 - £102,310 We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share Job Description Summary . Job Description JOB TITLE: Lead Platform Engineer SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310 for outside London and £100,657 - £118,420 LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh & London 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 our office site. About this opportunity: The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Azure Engineering team within the Cloud Native engineering Lab. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK. We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our Azure platform. The ideal candidate will have experience in software engineering and architecture, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll have worked hands-on and broadly with Azure technologies and bring T-shaped expertise in a particular field such as Kubernetes, Networking, API, Databases, Virtual Machines or Serverless. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we re shaping finance for good. We re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What will you be doing with us? You ll lead or contribute to the architectural design of cloud platform technologies and products across our ecosystem. You ll be able to get hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis - leading by example. Be proficient in leading technical conversations with stakeholders of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering cloud engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling Be an SME in a particular aspect of cloud engineering or product category. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we re shaping finance for good. We re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What you ll need: SME/Advanced skills in at least one of: Azure Kubernetes Service & Istio, Azure Networking, Azure Databases, Azure API Management, Azure Native VM technologies, Azure Virtualisation Service (certifications desirable). Strong experience of security configuration management via guardrails (Org Policy, Azure Policy, OPA) Strong experience of writing and contributing Terraform/ARM/Bicep to curate cloud infrastructure for enterprise Great understanding of Cloud Native engineering principles and experience of delivering systems based on them. Experience of building DevSecOps approach to infrastructure as code and application CI/CD Understanding of cloud security best practises and principles for enterprise Usage of enterprise Secret Management solutions including Azure Key Vault and Hashicorp Vault Appreciation of network security fundamentals - WAF/WAP/Firewalls and ingress/egress patterns Experience of Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps or Harness.io (desirable) 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 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.
Apr 11, 2024
Full time
End Date Thursday 18 April 2024 Salary Range £86,964 - £102,310 We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share Job Description Summary . Job Description JOB TITLE: Lead Platform Engineer SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310 for outside London and £100,657 - £118,420 LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh & London 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 our office site. About this opportunity: The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Azure Engineering team within the Cloud Native engineering Lab. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK. We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our Azure platform. The ideal candidate will have experience in software engineering and architecture, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll have worked hands-on and broadly with Azure technologies and bring T-shaped expertise in a particular field such as Kubernetes, Networking, API, Databases, Virtual Machines or Serverless. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we re shaping finance for good. We re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What will you be doing with us? You ll lead or contribute to the architectural design of cloud platform technologies and products across our ecosystem. You ll be able to get hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis - leading by example. Be proficient in leading technical conversations with stakeholders of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering cloud engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling Be an SME in a particular aspect of cloud engineering or product category. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we re shaping finance for good. We re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What you ll need: SME/Advanced skills in at least one of: Azure Kubernetes Service & Istio, Azure Networking, Azure Databases, Azure API Management, Azure Native VM technologies, Azure Virtualisation Service (certifications desirable). Strong experience of security configuration management via guardrails (Org Policy, Azure Policy, OPA) Strong experience of writing and contributing Terraform/ARM/Bicep to curate cloud infrastructure for enterprise Great understanding of Cloud Native engineering principles and experience of delivering systems based on them. Experience of building DevSecOps approach to infrastructure as code and application CI/CD Understanding of cloud security best practises and principles for enterprise Usage of enterprise Secret Management solutions including Azure Key Vault and Hashicorp Vault Appreciation of network security fundamentals - WAF/WAP/Firewalls and ingress/egress patterns Experience of Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps or Harness.io (desirable) 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 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.
Lead DevOps Engineer We are seeking a senior or lead level DevOps Engineer to join a well known payment technologies group working with countries globally to transform online transactions and speed, banking connectivity at nationwide scale and help fight digital monetary fraud and money laundering. The team are growing their UK DevOps and Operations teams (currently around 50 people) as they expand their products globally, with a particular focus on financial crime and anti-money laundering, improving speed of digital payments and connecting traditional banks through online transactions in countries across the Middle East and Asia. The role is 'container heavy', as they are using Kubernetes to containerise many of their payment platforms, both in multi-cloud environments (primarily AWS and Azure) and on-prem, whilst improving deployment pipelines and infrastructure as code as the majority of their clients transform to cloud ops. Whilst 'pre-canned' cloud container tools (EKS) are used, the team are building Kubernetes platforms from the ground up. We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer with; Strong production Kubernetes experience Experience of either Azure or AWS, preferably Azure Broad technical knowledge which could include a background in Linux engineering, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI tooling Lead DevOps Engineer Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 plus bonus, superb pension (with large contributions) and private health Location: London (City) base, with heavily remote options
Jan 08, 2022
Full time
Lead DevOps Engineer We are seeking a senior or lead level DevOps Engineer to join a well known payment technologies group working with countries globally to transform online transactions and speed, banking connectivity at nationwide scale and help fight digital monetary fraud and money laundering. The team are growing their UK DevOps and Operations teams (currently around 50 people) as they expand their products globally, with a particular focus on financial crime and anti-money laundering, improving speed of digital payments and connecting traditional banks through online transactions in countries across the Middle East and Asia. The role is 'container heavy', as they are using Kubernetes to containerise many of their payment platforms, both in multi-cloud environments (primarily AWS and Azure) and on-prem, whilst improving deployment pipelines and infrastructure as code as the majority of their clients transform to cloud ops. Whilst 'pre-canned' cloud container tools (EKS) are used, the team are building Kubernetes platforms from the ground up. We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer with; Strong production Kubernetes experience Experience of either Azure or AWS, preferably Azure Broad technical knowledge which could include a background in Linux engineering, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI tooling Lead DevOps Engineer Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 plus bonus, superb pension (with large contributions) and private health Location: London (City) base, with heavily remote options
Location: Manchester Westminster House (city centre opposite Piccadilly Gardens). We're happy to consider options other than 9-to-5 office-based work. To us "Agile working" is more than working flexibly - it's about entrusting colleagues to think creatively about how, when and where they work, to deliver their very best. Our Mission We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help. We're continuing our transformation programme, redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Become part of our diverse team where you'll impact the lives of more than 26 million customers through brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Widows. The team As a member of our team, you'll enjoy working closely with senior leadership and our business partners to ensure we align to (and contribute towards) the banks strategic vision. Primarily focusing on Telephony but maximising opportunities for our products to be used strategically across other channels. You'll also progress the decommissioning of old applications / tech stacks and remediate technical debt. About the role As a Senior Software Engineer (with Front-End engineering experience) on the Desktop Feature Team, you'll play a pivotal role in the future of Lloyds Banking Group Desktop product development from shaping the way we craft, build, test to how we deploy using innovative technology. You're someone who is passionate about mentoring more junior engineers/developers. This is a lead role in helping to shape our vibrant and dynamic engineering team, motivating other engineers and influencing lab leadership. Ideally, you're someone who has experience in the delivery of innovative Desktop experiences based around customer conversations, not just screen-based workflow; passionate about simplifying and optimising architectural landscapes in line with the technical roadmap for the team. What skills you'll need to apply for this role: Essential A deep and broad knowledge (and significant exposure) to modern web technologies, especially JavaScript (ideally Node.js and React.js) and RESTful APIs, Web Services. Significant experience in Full-Stack engineering including Front- End engineering. Passion and must have experienced engaging with senior stakeholder management. Hands-on experience of applying software practices; advocating modular, well tested applications that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale. Knowledge of GIT, source code management and managing change; and experience of DevOps toolchains and container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio), cloud technologies (GCP, ICP, Azure). We'll also have experience of mentoring, supporting and growing your engineering colleague's talent, providing clear and constructive feedback, whilst creating opportunities for learning and growth. We also welcome the following skills and experience Desirable: An understanding of the entire application stack and experience of ensuring software is built in a way that is consistent with the frameworks, patterns and practices of our wider engineering community. Appreciation and understanding of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation. Show understanding of how to design low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications. We'd appreciate someone with a curiosity about understanding industry innovation and apply and share knowledge to provide solutions for intricate business problems, where no precedent may exist, and ensure the implementation of solutions where appropriate. What you'll get from the role We'll provide you with a diverse, energising, and informal environment that focuses on equal opportunity and supports career progression. A role within our team will provide the chance to work flexibly and collaboratively. We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a positive difference to the overall teams' mission. What can we offer you in return? Salary and Benefits package includes: from £50, 130 - £65, 490 base salary plus 4% flexible benefit cash pot to spend on benefits (or take as cash-sum), a generous 15% employer pension contribution, 30 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays, a discretionary variable annual performance bonus, private medical health cover, access to share schemes and staff discounts! Together we'll make a difference. At LBG, we're invested in your continual development. That's why we've fostered a collaborative learning environment that supports your career goals and encourages knowledge-sharing. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity. So, if you have the skills, background we're seeking and this opportunity appeals then get in touch. We'd love you to join our team!
Nov 05, 2021
Full time
Location: Manchester Westminster House (city centre opposite Piccadilly Gardens). We're happy to consider options other than 9-to-5 office-based work. To us "Agile working" is more than working flexibly - it's about entrusting colleagues to think creatively about how, when and where they work, to deliver their very best. Our Mission We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help. We're continuing our transformation programme, redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Become part of our diverse team where you'll impact the lives of more than 26 million customers through brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Widows. The team As a member of our team, you'll enjoy working closely with senior leadership and our business partners to ensure we align to (and contribute towards) the banks strategic vision. Primarily focusing on Telephony but maximising opportunities for our products to be used strategically across other channels. You'll also progress the decommissioning of old applications / tech stacks and remediate technical debt. About the role As a Senior Software Engineer (with Front-End engineering experience) on the Desktop Feature Team, you'll play a pivotal role in the future of Lloyds Banking Group Desktop product development from shaping the way we craft, build, test to how we deploy using innovative technology. You're someone who is passionate about mentoring more junior engineers/developers. This is a lead role in helping to shape our vibrant and dynamic engineering team, motivating other engineers and influencing lab leadership. Ideally, you're someone who has experience in the delivery of innovative Desktop experiences based around customer conversations, not just screen-based workflow; passionate about simplifying and optimising architectural landscapes in line with the technical roadmap for the team. What skills you'll need to apply for this role: Essential A deep and broad knowledge (and significant exposure) to modern web technologies, especially JavaScript (ideally Node.js and React.js) and RESTful APIs, Web Services. Significant experience in Full-Stack engineering including Front- End engineering. Passion and must have experienced engaging with senior stakeholder management. Hands-on experience of applying software practices; advocating modular, well tested applications that remain easy to maintain as the codebase and business continues to scale. Knowledge of GIT, source code management and managing change; and experience of DevOps toolchains and container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio), cloud technologies (GCP, ICP, Azure). We'll also have experience of mentoring, supporting and growing your engineering colleague's talent, providing clear and constructive feedback, whilst creating opportunities for learning and growth. We also welcome the following skills and experience Desirable: An understanding of the entire application stack and experience of ensuring software is built in a way that is consistent with the frameworks, patterns and practices of our wider engineering community. Appreciation and understanding of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation. Show understanding of how to design low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications. We'd appreciate someone with a curiosity about understanding industry innovation and apply and share knowledge to provide solutions for intricate business problems, where no precedent may exist, and ensure the implementation of solutions where appropriate. What you'll get from the role We'll provide you with a diverse, energising, and informal environment that focuses on equal opportunity and supports career progression. A role within our team will provide the chance to work flexibly and collaboratively. We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a positive difference to the overall teams' mission. What can we offer you in return? Salary and Benefits package includes: from £50, 130 - £65, 490 base salary plus 4% flexible benefit cash pot to spend on benefits (or take as cash-sum), a generous 15% employer pension contribution, 30 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays, a discretionary variable annual performance bonus, private medical health cover, access to share schemes and staff discounts! Together we'll make a difference. At LBG, we're invested in your continual development. That's why we've fostered a collaborative learning environment that supports your career goals and encourages knowledge-sharing. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity. So, if you have the skills, background we're seeking and this opportunity appeals then get in touch. We'd love you to join our team!
Are you a DevOps Engineer looking for a role where you will be challenged on a daily basis? Would you like to work for a company that demands innovation to deliver the impossible for their clients? Would you like to use your skills on projects with some of the biggest companies in space & intelligence, banking/finance, oil & gas, and the motor industry? You'll work for a company that puts a massive focus on personal and professional development, providing access to plenty of technical training well over the industry standard, so you can explore emerging technologies that will keep you on top of market trends. You'll have skills in: - AWS or Azure - Automation scripting e.g. Ansible/Bash/Terraform - Containerisation using Docker/Kubernetes - Jenkins - Linux If you're interested in earning up to £60,000 plus an attractive benefits package then please get in touch via or .
Nov 04, 2021
Full time
Are you a DevOps Engineer looking for a role where you will be challenged on a daily basis? Would you like to work for a company that demands innovation to deliver the impossible for their clients? Would you like to use your skills on projects with some of the biggest companies in space & intelligence, banking/finance, oil & gas, and the motor industry? You'll work for a company that puts a massive focus on personal and professional development, providing access to plenty of technical training well over the industry standard, so you can explore emerging technologies that will keep you on top of market trends. You'll have skills in: - AWS or Azure - Automation scripting e.g. Ansible/Bash/Terraform - Containerisation using Docker/Kubernetes - Jenkins - Linux If you're interested in earning up to £60,000 plus an attractive benefits package then please get in touch via or .
***A great opportunity has arisen for a Lead Engineer - Data to our Data Transfer and Management Services Lab based in our office at Centron House, Wythenshawe, Manchester M22 5QZ. Base Salary £70, 080 - 87, 600 plus excellent benefits package. Our team works a hybrid working pattern, and we'll meet in office 2 - 3 days per week post-Covid (depending on the week). We're happy to offer flexible work schedules, for example start and finish times, or compressed hours! *** About Lloyds Banking Group As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy and have a clear strategy to put customers first and achieve our vision of being the best bank for our customers. Our team We're the Data Transfer and Management Services Lab building and managing the future centralised digital nervous system, using the power of our existing batch technologies centred on IBM's Infosphere DataStage stack, alongside our emerging cloud strategy and streaming analytics capability to get closer to our customers. All of this is underpinned by the excellent Data Management delivered through the latest industry tooling and strong governance practises. This will be the backbone of our Event data processing hub. Want to know more about our team? Our goal is, within the confines of strong governance, to democratise Lloyds Bank's dataset. We're currently supporting 1'000's of processes across the Bank, acting as the Enterprise Data Integration and Management function within the Bank for Retail, Risk, Fraud, Customer insight, Commercial and Corporate. We're on an exciting journey and the next phase of our transformation is moving more into streaming of data and cloud technologies underpinned again through Data Management tools and techniques to meet data needs and our team will be right at the heart of that transformation. What we'd like to see from you: Our team is looking for a hardworking and adaptable Lead Engineer, a technical leader with data engineering expertise, with a growth mind-set and a dedication to technical leadership, developing strategy and driving the direction of an engineering team. As a key member of our agile development community, you'll evolve our data capabilities whilst embracing the best industry standards. About the role In this technical leader role, you'll make a real difference, and you'll blend both deep domain and technical expertise across several component and feature teams. You'll be innovating the epicentre of the digital revolution in Enterprise Data as we begin our journey to the cloud and enabling earlier value release for our customers. Driving down the total cost of ownership of our products and driving agile adoption as part of the broader engineering community. You'll hold a key role in setting the direction and vision for the team, for all software engineers in your area, and for collaborating and forging relationships with teams in the UK (London, Bristol, Manchester) and India. Experience in following areas: Required Proven technical leadership, setting direction, vision, and strategy for team Technical know-how of ETL Tooling and Streaming and how they fit with cloud technologies experience, and delivering data engineering solutions Mainframe understanding and experience, specifically with scheduling capability, knowledge of containers at scale: such as, AKS/GKE, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio Knowledge of microservices/service mesh, cloud native solutions from cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure Understanding of job frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Spark, Apache Storm or similar You're someone that has a technical background on DevOps tooling on capabilities such as GitHub, Jenkins and UrbanCode. Additionally, database technology experience such as Teradata, Oracle, Hadoop, DB2 and familiarity with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and HBase. Additionally, you'll have real passion for coaching and mentoring of less experienced software engineers. We'd also welcome someone with the following desirable skills and experience: Show capability to change, evolve and to learn new tools and techniques and help and encourage others to do likewise Shows accomplished experience in, supplier/partner management, analysis and design of solutions, proto-typing, build, test and implementation Someone that is championing cultural changes including adoption of agile e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and practices e.g. SAFe, LeSS, Huge LeSS Experience in metadata harvesting, knowledge of metadata solutions, data management practises and tooling for example Collibra, Information Governance Catalogue (IBM IGC), Atacamma and Ab>Initio Metadata Hub What you'll get in return: As a multi-brand, multi-channel business, we have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve an exciting and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture passionate about making a difference. You'll also receive a package that includes a competitive base salary, discretionary variable bonus reward; 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%; access to share plans and 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. Together we make it possible. We're happy to consider options other than 9-to-5 office-based work. To us "Agile working" is more than working flexibly - it's about entrusting colleagues to think creatively about how, when and where they work, to deliver their very best. We're open to providing flexible working though our hybrid working patterns. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform key job functions. Are you interested in joining our team? Apply today!
Nov 04, 2021
Full time
***A great opportunity has arisen for a Lead Engineer - Data to our Data Transfer and Management Services Lab based in our office at Centron House, Wythenshawe, Manchester M22 5QZ. Base Salary £70, 080 - 87, 600 plus excellent benefits package. Our team works a hybrid working pattern, and we'll meet in office 2 - 3 days per week post-Covid (depending on the week). We're happy to offer flexible work schedules, for example start and finish times, or compressed hours! *** About Lloyds Banking Group As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy and have a clear strategy to put customers first and achieve our vision of being the best bank for our customers. Our team We're the Data Transfer and Management Services Lab building and managing the future centralised digital nervous system, using the power of our existing batch technologies centred on IBM's Infosphere DataStage stack, alongside our emerging cloud strategy and streaming analytics capability to get closer to our customers. All of this is underpinned by the excellent Data Management delivered through the latest industry tooling and strong governance practises. This will be the backbone of our Event data processing hub. Want to know more about our team? Our goal is, within the confines of strong governance, to democratise Lloyds Bank's dataset. We're currently supporting 1'000's of processes across the Bank, acting as the Enterprise Data Integration and Management function within the Bank for Retail, Risk, Fraud, Customer insight, Commercial and Corporate. We're on an exciting journey and the next phase of our transformation is moving more into streaming of data and cloud technologies underpinned again through Data Management tools and techniques to meet data needs and our team will be right at the heart of that transformation. What we'd like to see from you: Our team is looking for a hardworking and adaptable Lead Engineer, a technical leader with data engineering expertise, with a growth mind-set and a dedication to technical leadership, developing strategy and driving the direction of an engineering team. As a key member of our agile development community, you'll evolve our data capabilities whilst embracing the best industry standards. About the role In this technical leader role, you'll make a real difference, and you'll blend both deep domain and technical expertise across several component and feature teams. You'll be innovating the epicentre of the digital revolution in Enterprise Data as we begin our journey to the cloud and enabling earlier value release for our customers. Driving down the total cost of ownership of our products and driving agile adoption as part of the broader engineering community. You'll hold a key role in setting the direction and vision for the team, for all software engineers in your area, and for collaborating and forging relationships with teams in the UK (London, Bristol, Manchester) and India. Experience in following areas: Required Proven technical leadership, setting direction, vision, and strategy for team Technical know-how of ETL Tooling and Streaming and how they fit with cloud technologies experience, and delivering data engineering solutions Mainframe understanding and experience, specifically with scheduling capability, knowledge of containers at scale: such as, AKS/GKE, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio Knowledge of microservices/service mesh, cloud native solutions from cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure Understanding of job frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Spark, Apache Storm or similar You're someone that has a technical background on DevOps tooling on capabilities such as GitHub, Jenkins and UrbanCode. Additionally, database technology experience such as Teradata, Oracle, Hadoop, DB2 and familiarity with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and HBase. Additionally, you'll have real passion for coaching and mentoring of less experienced software engineers. We'd also welcome someone with the following desirable skills and experience: Show capability to change, evolve and to learn new tools and techniques and help and encourage others to do likewise Shows accomplished experience in, supplier/partner management, analysis and design of solutions, proto-typing, build, test and implementation Someone that is championing cultural changes including adoption of agile e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and practices e.g. SAFe, LeSS, Huge LeSS Experience in metadata harvesting, knowledge of metadata solutions, data management practises and tooling for example Collibra, Information Governance Catalogue (IBM IGC), Atacamma and Ab>Initio Metadata Hub What you'll get in return: As a multi-brand, multi-channel business, we have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve an exciting and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture passionate about making a difference. You'll also receive a package that includes a competitive base salary, discretionary variable bonus reward; 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%; access to share plans and 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. Together we make it possible. We're happy to consider options other than 9-to-5 office-based work. To us "Agile working" is more than working flexibly - it's about entrusting colleagues to think creatively about how, when and where they work, to deliver their very best. We're open to providing flexible working though our hybrid working patterns. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform key job functions. Are you interested in joining our team? Apply today!
Azure DevOps Engineer | Immediate Start | Government Financial Services I am partnered with a Banking client that provide financial services to government organisations. They have an urgent requirement to bring on board a DevOps engineer into a growing cloud specialist team. You will need to be an expert in using Azure DevOps and Kubernetes, as well as building CI/CD Pipelines and working on ALM deployments. You will be responsible for: Automating and deploying new and existing applications to the Azure Cloud Environment. Building CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration to the cloud. ALM deployments. Ongoing support to infrastructure to platform teams. What we need from you: 5+ Years DevOps experience 4+ Years Azure experience Demonstrate an ability to operate on CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy. Experience working around application lifecycle management. This is an urgent requirement and the client are looking to interview immediately with a start date possible as soon as Monday 4th October. Please consider your availability when applying for this role. If you are interested and immediately available then please apply directly or send a copy of your CV to Azure DevOps Engineer | Immediate Start | Government Financial Services
Oct 07, 2021
Contractor
Azure DevOps Engineer | Immediate Start | Government Financial Services I am partnered with a Banking client that provide financial services to government organisations. They have an urgent requirement to bring on board a DevOps engineer into a growing cloud specialist team. You will need to be an expert in using Azure DevOps and Kubernetes, as well as building CI/CD Pipelines and working on ALM deployments. You will be responsible for: Automating and deploying new and existing applications to the Azure Cloud Environment. Building CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration to the cloud. ALM deployments. Ongoing support to infrastructure to platform teams. What we need from you: 5+ Years DevOps experience 4+ Years Azure experience Demonstrate an ability to operate on CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy. Experience working around application lifecycle management. This is an urgent requirement and the client are looking to interview immediately with a start date possible as soon as Monday 4th October. Please consider your availability when applying for this role. If you are interested and immediately available then please apply directly or send a copy of your CV to Azure DevOps Engineer | Immediate Start | Government Financial Services
Are you ready to step into the fast-paced world of fintech? We're Pollinate. We combine the agility and flexibility of a high growth company with the global ambitions and backing of an established brand. We at Pollinate think banks have the potential to do more, to be more, and to reclaim the central role in the lives of their business customers. So we are working side by side with them to deliver the technology to help merchants grow and create unforgettable payment experiences to customers. With big global banking clients already under our belt, from NatWest to National Australia Bank, we are growing rapidly, and we need talented people like you to join us on our journey. As part of Pollinate, you'll be working with experts across payments, technology, customer experience, and financial services, supported by a world-class network of partners. Workplace wellbeing and inclusivity is very important to us-this year, in addition to internal support, we rolled out the mental health platform, Unmind, company-wide to support each employee's individual wellbeing journey. Our platform has picked up multiple industry awards, including 'Banking Innovation of the Year' at the 2020 Future Digital Awards, and the 'Innovation Frontier' award at the Celent Model Bank 2020 Awards through our work with NatWest's Payit. We're also currently shortlisted in the Women in Tech Employer Awards 2020. Join us to be a key part of a team that's changing the future of payments, with the freedom to make your mark. Together, we'll push the boundaries of what's possible with payment enabled merchant services for SMEs around the world. Purpose of the role As a Senior Full Stack Developer you will be responsible for implementing the technical vision as defined and managing the technical deliverables. You will own one or more components of our internal and external microservices which forms the basis of our merchant onboarding portal, SaaS services and core acquiring platform. In addition, you will be working side-by-side with other engineers, leads and architects on platform architecture, integration (internal/external), performance and security to create a powerful platform to enable us reinvent merchant acquiring for banks. You will work with a talented and experienced team of engineers, architects, product managers designers as well as having the opportunity to contribute to product design, architecture, system reliability and scalability of our services. You will be responsible for ensuring the teams uses engineering best practices such as CI/CD, TDD/BDD, automated testing and influencing the adoption of best tools for completing day to day development tasks. Responsibilities Implementing industry best practices and coding standards of the project/platform Accountable for the technical development and quality assurance of one or more products across the teams Mentoring developers and encouraging the adoption of best practises within the team Support Business Analysts, Product Managers and Delivery Managers in producing roadmaps and estimates. Develop high-quality software design and architecture using best practices, common standard and frameworks Develop microservices, applications and tools by producing clean, testable and efficient code Documenting application low level technical design, including software diagrams, pseudo code comments and operating instructions Create proof of concepts if required, to validate proposed solutions and seek feedback from stakeholders Working with business users by evaluating the problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions technical analysis of business requirements, low level design documentation Identify performance bottlenecks and come up with novel ways to solve them Proactively benchmark application code to mitigate performance and scalability issues Work with the Quality Assurance team on issue reporting, resolution, and change control Assisting the DevOps team with any environment issues during application deployment across Development, QA, Pre-production, and Production environments Collaborating with test and application support teams in troubleshooting problems that may arise from applications or integration of various components Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve developed software and application What we are looking for Java and associated concepts including OO and service design principles (JSON and/or RESTful). Strong knowledge and experience of Java 8 and above, as well as Spring Hibernate/JPA etc. Good understanding and experience of test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices Strong experience and knowledge of relational databases and SQL tuning Experience working with Agile methodologies as part of the software development life cycle. Experience of working with containers and message brokers like Kafka or any other message brokers Experience of container services like Kubernetes, Docker etc Experience of working of Cloud systems preferably Azure Microservice design and development Rest, JSON/XML Multi-threading in high volume, high availability systems. Experience of mobile app development using native or hybrid frameworks Experience using JavaScript frameworks: Angular or React Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, OO JavaScript, Node.js etc. Who we are looking for Ideally someone who has worked for a Fintech start-up and has experience with products focused on consumer but also involved in developing highly scalable and resilient microservice applications Starter-finisher attitude to manage work Strong verbal and written English communication skills High energy and drive that suits a start-up environment Comfortable working outside of rigid structures and frameworks Effective working in ambiguous environments You are a team player and can work cross-team - for instance with business-minded staff, designers, product owners, and everything in between What we stand for We believe we are better together when we listen, engage and support each other, we want you to bring your expertise and experience to work every day We are passionate about what we are doing and want you to share this with us, enjoy your time with us, stay calm under pressure and bring positive energy to the team We are all on a journey together, we want your ambition and flexible mind set to embrace the twists and turns as we grow as a business At the moment, and for the foreseeable future, this role will be 100% home based. We are in the process of developing a Future of Work at Pollinate strategy which will include hybrid working. Pollinate offers great benefits including up to 20% bonus, Pension, Life Assurance, Health Cash Plan, CSOP as well as flexible working hours and a weekly online Yoga class. This Job Description covers the main areas of your responsibilities. It is not an exhaustive list. We only accept candidates who have the right to work in the UK. - Pollinate offers excellent benefits, including up to 20% bonus Pension Life Assurance Health Cash Plan CSOP Flexible working hours Online Yoga class 2 stagesJava, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, AzureJava, J2EE, JavaScript, SQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure
Mar 24, 2021
Full time
Are you ready to step into the fast-paced world of fintech? We're Pollinate. We combine the agility and flexibility of a high growth company with the global ambitions and backing of an established brand. We at Pollinate think banks have the potential to do more, to be more, and to reclaim the central role in the lives of their business customers. So we are working side by side with them to deliver the technology to help merchants grow and create unforgettable payment experiences to customers. With big global banking clients already under our belt, from NatWest to National Australia Bank, we are growing rapidly, and we need talented people like you to join us on our journey. As part of Pollinate, you'll be working with experts across payments, technology, customer experience, and financial services, supported by a world-class network of partners. Workplace wellbeing and inclusivity is very important to us-this year, in addition to internal support, we rolled out the mental health platform, Unmind, company-wide to support each employee's individual wellbeing journey. Our platform has picked up multiple industry awards, including 'Banking Innovation of the Year' at the 2020 Future Digital Awards, and the 'Innovation Frontier' award at the Celent Model Bank 2020 Awards through our work with NatWest's Payit. We're also currently shortlisted in the Women in Tech Employer Awards 2020. Join us to be a key part of a team that's changing the future of payments, with the freedom to make your mark. Together, we'll push the boundaries of what's possible with payment enabled merchant services for SMEs around the world. Purpose of the role As a Senior Full Stack Developer you will be responsible for implementing the technical vision as defined and managing the technical deliverables. You will own one or more components of our internal and external microservices which forms the basis of our merchant onboarding portal, SaaS services and core acquiring platform. In addition, you will be working side-by-side with other engineers, leads and architects on platform architecture, integration (internal/external), performance and security to create a powerful platform to enable us reinvent merchant acquiring for banks. You will work with a talented and experienced team of engineers, architects, product managers designers as well as having the opportunity to contribute to product design, architecture, system reliability and scalability of our services. You will be responsible for ensuring the teams uses engineering best practices such as CI/CD, TDD/BDD, automated testing and influencing the adoption of best tools for completing day to day development tasks. Responsibilities Implementing industry best practices and coding standards of the project/platform Accountable for the technical development and quality assurance of one or more products across the teams Mentoring developers and encouraging the adoption of best practises within the team Support Business Analysts, Product Managers and Delivery Managers in producing roadmaps and estimates. Develop high-quality software design and architecture using best practices, common standard and frameworks Develop microservices, applications and tools by producing clean, testable and efficient code Documenting application low level technical design, including software diagrams, pseudo code comments and operating instructions Create proof of concepts if required, to validate proposed solutions and seek feedback from stakeholders Working with business users by evaluating the problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions technical analysis of business requirements, low level design documentation Identify performance bottlenecks and come up with novel ways to solve them Proactively benchmark application code to mitigate performance and scalability issues Work with the Quality Assurance team on issue reporting, resolution, and change control Assisting the DevOps team with any environment issues during application deployment across Development, QA, Pre-production, and Production environments Collaborating with test and application support teams in troubleshooting problems that may arise from applications or integration of various components Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve developed software and application What we are looking for Java and associated concepts including OO and service design principles (JSON and/or RESTful). Strong knowledge and experience of Java 8 and above, as well as Spring Hibernate/JPA etc. Good understanding and experience of test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery practices Strong experience and knowledge of relational databases and SQL tuning Experience working with Agile methodologies as part of the software development life cycle. Experience of working with containers and message brokers like Kafka or any other message brokers Experience of container services like Kubernetes, Docker etc Experience of working of Cloud systems preferably Azure Microservice design and development Rest, JSON/XML Multi-threading in high volume, high availability systems. Experience of mobile app development using native or hybrid frameworks Experience using JavaScript frameworks: Angular or React Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, OO JavaScript, Node.js etc. Who we are looking for Ideally someone who has worked for a Fintech start-up and has experience with products focused on consumer but also involved in developing highly scalable and resilient microservice applications Starter-finisher attitude to manage work Strong verbal and written English communication skills High energy and drive that suits a start-up environment Comfortable working outside of rigid structures and frameworks Effective working in ambiguous environments You are a team player and can work cross-team - for instance with business-minded staff, designers, product owners, and everything in between What we stand for We believe we are better together when we listen, engage and support each other, we want you to bring your expertise and experience to work every day We are passionate about what we are doing and want you to share this with us, enjoy your time with us, stay calm under pressure and bring positive energy to the team We are all on a journey together, we want your ambition and flexible mind set to embrace the twists and turns as we grow as a business At the moment, and for the foreseeable future, this role will be 100% home based. We are in the process of developing a Future of Work at Pollinate strategy which will include hybrid working. Pollinate offers great benefits including up to 20% bonus, Pension, Life Assurance, Health Cash Plan, CSOP as well as flexible working hours and a weekly online Yoga class. This Job Description covers the main areas of your responsibilities. It is not an exhaustive list. We only accept candidates who have the right to work in the UK. - Pollinate offers excellent benefits, including up to 20% bonus Pension Life Assurance Health Cash Plan CSOP Flexible working hours Online Yoga class 2 stagesJava, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, AzureJava, J2EE, JavaScript, SQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure
Concept Resourcing
DevOps Consultant - Work from Home / Commutable to Yorkshire £60-75,000 + package I'm looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer / Consultant to join a growing technology business. The role will help develop cutting edge business applications for clients. The client offers a dynamic team with a great team culture. The role offers flexible working with WFH opportunities but must be commutable to their offices in Yorkshire. The role will require frequent travel and sometimes international travel to clients. Key Duties You will design and build automated processes to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments of cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform / GCP) You will be responsible for building the tooling and standard patterns to automate the delivery and support of Cloud infrastructure and Container solutions. You will ensure that all infrastructure designs are built with security and availability as primary concerns to meet the customer requirements. Supporting with pre-sales through to design, implementation and production Key Technologies Excellent knowledge of GNU/Linux and associated technologies Strong knowledge of the workings of TCP/IP Skilled in at least one scripting language; ideally Ruby or Python Enterprise and Cloud infrastructure design and deployment Experienced with AWS or GCP (Google Cloud Platform) Experience of designing "Lift and shift" infrastructure focused solutions ideally within the Fintech sector particularly Banking Proficient in Terraform, Ansible, Chef and / or Puppet (desirable) CD / CI experience such as GitLab, Jenkins and CI Liaising with internal and external stakeholders Responsible for building the tooling and standard patterns to automate the delivery of Cloud infrastructure and solutions Docker / Kubernetes - architect multi-region, load-balanced Microservices Salary on offer is £60-75,000 + package Looking to move ASAP so please send me your latest CV and I will call you to discuss further. James Turley - IT Recruitment Consultant - - Key Words: Senior Platform Engineer - Senior Platform Consultant - Google Cloud - Terraform - Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Engineer - DevOps - AWS - Google Cloud Platform - Azure - Cloud - Puppet - Ansible - Docker - Kubernetes - Dev Ops - Linux - GCP
Feb 15, 2019
Concept Resourcing
DevOps Consultant - Work from Home / Commutable to Yorkshire £60-75,000 + package I'm looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer / Consultant to join a growing technology business. The role will help develop cutting edge business applications for clients. The client offers a dynamic team with a great team culture. The role offers flexible working with WFH opportunities but must be commutable to their offices in Yorkshire. The role will require frequent travel and sometimes international travel to clients. Key Duties You will design and build automated processes to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments of cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform / GCP) You will be responsible for building the tooling and standard patterns to automate the delivery and support of Cloud infrastructure and Container solutions. You will ensure that all infrastructure designs are built with security and availability as primary concerns to meet the customer requirements. Supporting with pre-sales through to design, implementation and production Key Technologies Excellent knowledge of GNU/Linux and associated technologies Strong knowledge of the workings of TCP/IP Skilled in at least one scripting language; ideally Ruby or Python Enterprise and Cloud infrastructure design and deployment Experienced with AWS or GCP (Google Cloud Platform) Experience of designing "Lift and shift" infrastructure focused solutions ideally within the Fintech sector particularly Banking Proficient in Terraform, Ansible, Chef and / or Puppet (desirable) CD / CI experience such as GitLab, Jenkins and CI Liaising with internal and external stakeholders Responsible for building the tooling and standard patterns to automate the delivery of Cloud infrastructure and solutions Docker / Kubernetes - architect multi-region, load-balanced Microservices Salary on offer is £60-75,000 + package Looking to move ASAP so please send me your latest CV and I will call you to discuss further. James Turley - IT Recruitment Consultant - - Key Words: Senior Platform Engineer - Senior Platform Consultant - Google Cloud - Terraform - Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Engineer - DevOps - AWS - Google Cloud Platform - Azure - Cloud - Puppet - Ansible - Docker - Kubernetes - Dev Ops - Linux - GCP