Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time (5 days, 35 hours)

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office location

About this opportunity

Insurance Pensions and Investments has a vision to improve the support we provide to our customers throughout their financial lives, empowering them to make the right decisions on their long-term saving, investment, and retirement needs.

Through the ongoing development, modernisation and simplification of the shared platforms and services that sit at the heart of our business, the Legacy Maintenance and Migrations Lab plays a key role in the realisation of this vision.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference:

• As a Java Engineer, Lead, inspire, and support individuals to continually improve and develop.

• Help us define and communicate our engineering strategy, methods, and approaches.

• Work with our teams and partners to define, agree and implement optimal approaches, utilising the right tools and techniques to achieve the best possible outcomes for the business.

• Ensure work within the team is in accordance with the values and behaviours and risk parameters of the bank.

• A natural facilitator and decision-maker, you'll enable cross team collaboration when it comes to Java based solutioning.

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll support the execution of technical delivery for Java based applications within the lab across the full build/test/deploy lifecycle.

• Use design patterns, experience and best practices to design, test and amend programs/scripts.

• Support agile software development to enable continuous improvement within the team.

• Java solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable and secure by utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt.

• Promote active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings.

• Lead and mentor software engineers in their technical development within the team, driving a collaborative culture

• Provide Domain Expert input into systems development, integrations and architecture.

• Contribute to the success of the wider Engineering Community by following industry standards, improving work quality through peer reviews, and sharing your knowledge to foster growth.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need:

• Significant experience with Java/J2EE, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Struts Framework, SQL, Urban Code, Jira, Align, Confluence & Service Now.

• Knowledge of Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube and Nexus would be beneficial.

• Conversant in Quality Engineering (QE) and DevOps processes and technologies.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills and a passion for advocating quality across Product & Engineering

• Engineering experience working within an Agile framework

• Proven background in Java Software Engineering.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Exposure to IT solutions across various systems, technologies, and data sources

• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills, including mentoring

• Experience leading a team of engineers (not managing).

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

• 30 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!