Senior Software Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job description

time left to apply End Date: April 9, 2025 (12 days left to apply)

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Chester
Salary: £70,929 - £78,810
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 Chester office.

About this opportunity

As Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring your deep technical expertise to the table, driving technical development and delivery in key areas. You’ll focus on solving complex challenges with your specialised knowledge, taking ownership of critical tech delivery within your team.

In this role, you’ll lead the way in shaping the direction of our software solutions, using your expertise to make impactful decisions and drive success. You’ll collaborate closely with the team and product owner to ensure delivery excellence. If you’re someone who thrives on delivering high-quality solutions and making a real impact with your technical know-how, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll do

Working within the Financial Wellbeing Platform, you can play a pivotal role in the next stage of our transformation journey. The Platform’s purpose is to create a leading experience to help our customers before, during, and after financial difficulty. You can ensure we help them become more financially resilient and improve their overall financial wellbeing.

We aim to achieve this purpose through improving colleague tools, creating tools to allow customers to better handle their day-to-day finances, and by simplifying the Customer Financial Assistance (CFA) systems through an increased focus on Automation, DevOps, Cloud technologies, and Rationalisation. Our aim is to generate a forward-thinking agile culture that supports CFA in delivering high quality, efficient, and positive impact outcomes for our customers.

1. Lead in the migration of the current Motor Debt Manager system onto a new Cloud (SaaS) based Debt Manager 12 solution.
2. Drive the success of Engineering within the Financial Wellbeing Platform by sharing your knowledge and experiences and growing capability through quality upskilling.
3. Recognize the importance of quality and hence create and implement approaches, guidelines, and principles defined by themselves and their Engineering peers.
4. Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives, promoting a culture of collaboration across boundaries, where people can express themselves honestly.

What you’ll need

Extensive experience of the full end-to-end software engineering lifecycle.

Good experience of development frameworks, preferably Spring and Spring Boot.

Knowledge and experience of DevOps tooling and principles including GitHub, Jenkins, UCD.

Experience of relational databases e.g. Oracle, SQL Server.

Experience of using REST and SOAP APIs within applications.

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:

1. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
2. An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
3. Share schemes including free shares.
4. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
5. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
6. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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.

About Us

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.

Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

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