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Lloyds Banking Group has approximately 40% of the nation's domestic payment transactions passing through its systems, processing tens of billions of pounds in value daily. Our Payments, Fraud and Financial Crime (PFFC) IT team is at the heart of it all as we develop and maintain capability to become the best bank for customer.

Would you like to help us deliver exciting customer driven solutions?

About the role:

As the Bank moves to building out a strategic roadmap, both from an application infrastructure and tooling, Payments Fraud and Financial Crime Value Stream are embracing this and building capability to do enable this transformation. The Payment microservices Team is an Agile based delivery team, building key strategic microservices for the Payments estate, supporting a number of Category A services for the organisation.

You'll be taking on a technical engineering role, supporting the build, development and maintenance of a highly productive software engineering team instilled with the ethos of delivering high quality solutions. You'll take ownership for backlog items, quality of build and test and ensure error free deployments into the production estate, seeking methods (tooling / reviews) to ensure high standards and are in line with expectations for High Availability, Group Critical solutions and contribute to the support of the new platform.

So what would you be doing for us?

• Support the leadership team in setting the strategic direction for how new DevOps tools, methods and standards are deployed across the platform
• Ensure that software is developed and managed and in a way which is consistent with - and exploits where possible - the collective frameworks, patterns and standard methodologies that exist across the wider Engineering community
• Foster sharing knowledge within your team and the wider platform to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist, and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate
• Support to the Scrum Master and Product Owner in development of the feature team capability
• Engineering Leadership on 3rd Party relationships with partner, industry and software suppliers
• Mentor and develop software engineers, providing clear and constructive feedback and creating opportunities for learning and growth

What we need from you:

• You'll be experienced in Software Engineering, integration and introduction of 3rd Party packages/tools, coupled with solution configuration, message transformation and rules-based engineering into a production environment
• You'll have a consistent track record delivering business value through sound and fully rounded engineering methods and principles, ensuring platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices.
• Experience of agile, devops and non-agile development practices; automated build, continuous integration, code quality metrics, configuration management, etc.
• Technical and practical usage skills in Urban Code, Jenkins, Springboot, MQ, Websphere, Unix, Java, WAS and Jira/Confluence
• Understand and direct how components and services are developed, tested and progressed within their Engineering discipline.
• You'll have a real passion for mentoring other engineers and a strong team culture, Along with a successful track record of leading people

Any experience of the Financial Services industry in general, and payments in particular would be highly beneficial, along with experience working in an agile environment

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

Together we'll make it possible...

You'll also receive a package that includes

• Discretionary bonus between 15-30% of base pay
• 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 13%
• Share plans
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today; we'd love to hear from you...