Senior Technical Application Specialist

  • Posted 10 days ago
  • Permanent
  • 135491
  • Edinburgh, Birmingham
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End date

Friday 04 July 2025

Salary range

£70,929 - £78,810

Agile Working Options

Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Technical Application Specialist

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Birmingham

SALARY: £70,929 - £74,869

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above office locations

About this opportunity

We're looking to recruit a Senior Technical Application Specialist (TAS) to work in our International & CHAPS Lab providing payment options for all of our customers. Specifically, to support our new industry-leading International Payments Platform (IPP)!

Our strategic roadmap includes a Payments Industry product called Global Payments Plus (GPP). This product is being used to deliver key revenue streams as well as enable mandatory compliance. What follows is what you might find our TAS mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the team’s needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you'll need

You will ideally have xperience with International SWIFT and Payments snd have integrated 3rd Party packages, customized solutions, and implemented rules-based engineering.

  • You’ll have all-around knowledge of the software development lifecycle, ideally within a modern Agile engineering function

  • You’ll have good communication & teamwork skills

  • You'll have good Problem-solving skills within a technical environment

  • You'll be able to work with 3rd party supplier to drive defect management

  • You'll be able to support planning and implementing production changes

  • Develops product specifications while designing testing procedures and standards

  • Adept solutions designer and problem solver

  • In depth Hands-on configuration experience with Finastra Global Payplus (GPP) product to meet complex requirements

  • Proven experience using these technologies would be advantageous: Java EE (J2EE), SQL, Oracle, Unix/Linux, MQ, WebSphere, UrbanCode

  • Experience in use of Agile tooling is essential

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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:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

  • An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

  • 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.

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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'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.