Senior Technical Application Specialist - Markets Payments Systems

Job Title Senior Technical Application Specialist - Markets Payments Systems 
Salary: £93,087 - £124,116
Location: London 
Hours: Full-time 
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London Office.

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… 

About this opportunity… 

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Technical Application Specialist to join our Markets Platform. You’ll be an experienced specialist capable of handling complex projects and mentoring junior team members. 

Our platform covers the entire end to end customer journey of traded products for the Ring Fenced and Non-Ring-fenced Bank. Our mission is to successfully develop and maintain high quality, stable, software services alongside watertight risk and data control management. We strive for a platform vision of ‘Powering access to Global Markets’ through the energy and diligence of brilliant teams! We're a friendly, engaging, and hard-working lab who always have a huge amount of work to deliver! Committed to the development of our most valuable asset - our people, providing them with the necessary skills to excel and uphold our outstanding IT function. 

The team has development responsibility for approximately 5 applications covering high rated critical business processes crucial to the successful trade settlement flow for the Markets business. This is a key function of the lab. 

This will require an understanding and adherence to governance controls, planning of activities, communication and engagement across the business teams and lab constructs, and you'll be responsible for ensuring the correct processes are followed to ensure delivered products meet the quality and standards that our customers expect. 

What you’ll do 

Markets platform provides end to end management and development of Financial Markets, Capital Markets and Trade services across digital and relationship channels.  

As a Technical Application Specialist/Software Engineer within Trade Execution Lab, you will be working in the Agile framework to deliver business value by developing reliable, scalable software while being responsible for the full application lifecycle, including design, build, testing and deployment. 

Some of the responsibilities in this role include:

• Close liaison with vendor for patching, SME support, upstream/downstream testing

• Working with the team to define, agree and implement optimal software engineering approaches; utilising the right tools and techniques to achieve the best possible outcomes for the business.

• Defines, delivers, and adapts specialised products/services to meet customer needs by selecting the best possible approaches available within established systems.

• Delivers prescribed outcomes for a designated area, using risk management systems to ensure the organisation is not exposed to undue risks.

• Mentoring junior Engineers, to continually promote best practices and culture of excellence. 

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and methodologies 

• Conduct root cause analysis for critical issues 

• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and pilot projects 

• Represent the specialist team in inter-departmental meetings 

• Contribute to the development of technical strategies 

What you’ll need:

• Ideally, you’ll have some experience of developing electronic payments systems, preferably with exposure to Finastra’s Fusion Payments Manager (PCM) or similar Swift/electronic payment applications

• An understanding of Swift/CHAPS/ISO20022/other payments mechanisms & messaging formats (or similar financial transaction messaging/processing)   

• Knowledge of underlying technologies, preferably across these areas (training will be provided where required):  
  - Java (preferably Java 8 and/or 11) or similar 
  - SQL (Transact-SQL) or similar 
  - Microsoft SQL Server (preferably 2019/2022 or similar) 
  - Scripting (Windows and/or PowerShell or others) 
  - Source code control (preferably Git and GitHub or similar)

• Ability to communicate technical problems, solutions, concepts and activities clearly at an individual, team and Lab level

It would be great if you also had

• Exposure to monitoring tools and dashboards for automated monitoring.

• Experience in Finance/Banking domain 

• Exposure to build/test/deploy, CI/CD and other development toolsets and methodologies.

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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. 

We're disability confident. So, if you would 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 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 

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