Infrastructure Specialist (IBM App Connect Enterprise)

JOB TITLE: Infrastructure Specialist (IBM App Connect Enterprise)

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

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 locations.

About this Opportunity

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s biggest Digital, Retail, and Commercial bank seeking to help Britain prosper and we’re transforming our products and platforms with £3bn of investment to become the bank of the future.

With 789 software systems and 26,000 servers we’re servicing 80,000 colleagues, 30m+ customers, and over 14m+ online users you can be confident our IT professionals have sizeable and interesting challenges every single day.

In this role you’ll deliver highly complex technical support and project delivery (including incident and problem resolution) for systems and processes in IBM APP Connect Enterprise (abbreviated as IBM ACE, formerly known as IBM Integration Bus or WebSphere Message Broker) environments on z/Linux.

You’ll install and maintain products and services according to Group standards and policies (and to agreed service levels) and will assist with the delivery of projects within Integration Bus environments – this includes out of hours. Additionally, you’ll provide technical support (including incident and problem resolution for systems and processes in complex environments). This includes out of hours support. 

You’ll also: 

• Provide support of complex environments to tight timescales. 

• Help drive the strategy and design across the Integration Bus development and test estate. 

• Work closely with key Stakeholders, drive and deliver against the technology roadmap. 

• Enforce standardisation and assist with improvement initiatives in the team. 

• Work collaboratively across the wider Middleware teams to develop, promote and implement process initiatives. 

• Ensure processes and procedures are strictly adhered to 

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

• Integration Bus (IIB) v9/v10 / APP Connect Enterprise v12 administration – Linux or Mainframe

• IBM WebSphere Message Queue v9 administration – Linux or Mainframe

• Operational experience on Linux OS systems

• Operational experience using SQL - DB2/Oracle

• Scripting experience – Shell

Any experience of these would be really useful:

• Operational experience on mainframe z/OS

• Knowledge of automated deployment / pipeline and workflow management (Git, UrbanCode etc)

• Diagnostic skills and an ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, allowing the provision of highly effective solutions in complex environments

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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.

• 28 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.