Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers and a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We're in the middle of a £3bn investment into our People, Platforms and Data - with an Engineering led approach, all as part of our strategy to become the Best Bank for Customers and build the Bank of the Future.

It's the role of our Chief Information & Security Office to provide the backbone and infrastructure upon which this bank of the future will sit. We're supporting the infrastructure of a number of these pivotal initiatives through the provision of Colleague Technology Services and Products. Enterprise Toolsets | Automation | Data Science ensure that platforms and new technologies to the bank, are ready for Lloyds Banking Group use.

Our technology, culture, and our mind-sets are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation. We're creating new opportunities and products to improve colleague experiences for years to come. With our business evolving to more modern and flexible approaches to working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals who join us on this journey.

Here's why you'll make a difference

Our team of engineers, are eager to learn about new trends and applications of automation, to increase the ability of the organisation to cope with the growing speed of change in the financial industry.

We have been instrumental in the past in Cloud Adoption, increasing the usage of ServiceNow, integrating software-as-a-service offerings from different providers and coming up with standards and patterns around usage of Chef and Jenkins.

The right candidate will be comfortable working in an agile way with knowledge of ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban. Our Engineering capability is rapidly moving towards a DevOps model - knowledge of this structure and associated tools would be beneficial.

You'll work collaboratively with others in your team and across other teams, helping to develop more junior colleagues and learning new skills yourself to keep up with the constantly evolving IT landscape.

You'll have the ability to identify processes that are good candidates for automation and the skills to implement that automation.

What we'll need from you;

• Experience automating repetitive tasks

• Coding in a variety of languages such as Java, Groovy, Scala, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript, PowerShell or Bash/Shell

• The use of CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Nexus, and Git

• An understanding of the integration of different tools to enable end to end automation

• An aim to build a great user experience into everything we develop

A good understanding in the following fields is desirable;

• Cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, GCP, AWS)

• General IT security good practice

• Container based architecture and tools (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Istio)

• Knowledge of enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, MS Power Platform, Office 365

• Understanding of database structures, particularly relating to Configuration Management

You'd get a benefits package that includes;

• A performance related bonus

• Generous pension contribution

• 30 Days leave plus bank holidays

• A flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits

• Private health cover

• Wider corporate benefits and perks

As a new colleague, you'll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain, and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued.

We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

So if you possess the skills we're seeking then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.

Together we make it possible.