Software Engineering Senior Manager (DevOps Team, Finance Systems)

Company: Lloyds Banking Group

Location: Bristol - Canons house, BS1 5LL

Salary: £65,700 to £87,600 base salary, plus significant annual personal bonus, 13% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and home working opportunities! Working for Lloyds is great.

Want a Summary of the Role?

This senior management role sits within the Software Engineering team in our Group Transformation division, within the Finance Value Stream and will focus on work in our General Ledger's LAB. You would support the delivery of the high quality customer driven software development using either C#.NET or Java. Team leading would involve coaching, continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting your team.

Our software development is focused around General Ledger systems like SAP or Oracle for example. Roughly this role would be 30% hands on coding and 70% management.

What would you get involved with?

As our mission is promote the adoption of modern software engineering practices, specifically accelerating adoption of modern engineering practices: DevOps, Continuous Improvement/Continuous Development, Cloud First, Agile, etc...

You would work in cross-disciplinary teams and act as advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting your teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing yourself with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team.

What do you need to be considered for this job?

Generally, you are comfortable in a hands-on technical leadership role, blending both solid leadership experience and technical expertise.

We welcome people from a range of role and industry backgrounds but do need to see the following as a minimum for consideration, 1) 5 years + Software Engineering background with experience in building large scale applications with at least one of the following languages: Java or C#.NET, 2) technical leadership experience and desire to help coach and mentor staff, 3) great interpersonal skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people, 4) Passionate about driving a true modern DevOps culture, 5) good understanding and/or experience of big data/data management.

Oh, and if you have any prior experience working within a finance function or with general ledger systems that would be handy, but please apply if you don't!

Who are the General Ledger Software Development Team?

Our team sits within the Group Transformation division, in the Finance Value Stream, specifically within the General Ledger's LAB area of the bank. You will be responsible for supporting a vast and complex Finance Ledger landscape including the new Oracle Fusion (Cloud hosted ledger) as well as the existing/legacy ledgers and sub-ledgers. In addition to this, the team also supports the Integrity application for Finance attestation, the Generic Interface Processes as well as the Data Reference Management tool.

We're a group of people pulled together by our passion for coding, experimenting, designing and learning everything that makes us better engineers.

Lloyds Banking Group vision is to be the best bank for customer and to realize it we have the mission to make it the best bank for Engineers!

Who are 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 we have a clear strategy to put customers first and achieve our vision of being the best bank for our customers.

We're committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve - where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

What support will I get and how will my career grow?

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 a rewarding and fulfilling career.

Our engineering community in Bristol is growing rapidly, which will naturally present lots of career opportunities.

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.

Together we make it possible.