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Technical Application Specialist

  • Posted 7 days ago
  • Permanent
  • 134608
  • London
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End date

Thursday 16 October 2025

Salary range

£81,999 - £91,110

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Agile Working Options

Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

What You'll Be Doing
As a platform, our purpose is to enable smarter API & System of Engagement led innovation tomorrow while ensuring resilient Digital Services today, and we do this by providing and evolving a set of highly reusable digital products that enable platforms to build journeys outside of our current digital platform where they can operate change independently whilst maintaining resilience 24/7. In this role, as a Technical Application Specialist, you will be responsible for Internet Banking DB2, Batch and DataPower, enhancing the resilience of these application whilst supporting consumers to modernise their journeys to deploy their code independently. Your team will deliver key changes that will be critical for Digital Modernisation and enhance the overall engineering experience for our consumers. If you’re passionate about modernising codebases, implementing technological efficiencies in complex systems to unlock the pace of application and microservice development, we want you to join us!

Day To Day Activities:

  • Working on changes for Internet Banking Batch and Db2 ensuring high quality delivery of tasks, stories via agile methodologies.
  • Supporting any incident resolution relating to Batch, and Db2.
  • Continually improving service stability and observability for Batch and Db2.
  • Raising changes on ServiceNow for Batch and Db2.
  • Collaborating with DataPower team and becoming an SME for Batch & Db2.
  • Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, engineers and developers, to deliver changes via our front door process
  • Foster an engineering culture of experimentation, learning and continuous innovation.

What Skills You’ll Need

  • Technology Expertise - Strong knowledge and expertise of Internet Banking Batch and IBDB2. .
  • Software Engineering - Possess a deep understanding of the software lifecycle, ensuring high standards in design, development, testing, and deployment.
  • Operational optimisation – experience with Run operations for highly available systems, including control automation, end to end system monitoring and observability
  • Service Sustainability & Incident Resolution - demonstrable experience of incident resolution, war room support and root cause identification..
  • Delivery - Experience in deploying changes into production for customers
     

In addition any experience of these would be useful:

  • Cloud Platform - Familiarity with the development of resilient systems on cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS.
  • Experience and knowledge of Foundation Server and F5
  • Experience and knowledge of DataPower
  • Experience of managing and designing end to end API services (preferably REST) and SDKs.
  • Experience of DevOps Pipeline optimisation and developing embedded and dynamic controls.

​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 underrepresented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
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