Channels Lab– Software Engineer E

Lloyds Banking Group are redefining the way Engineering is carried out. We’ve created “LBG Labs” and we're building multi-functional, co-located teams giving them freedom to bring technology to the forefront of our business. This will help us create new, and improve existing, products and services to help us really make a difference to our customers.

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A Lab is a co-located team working together on key projects to deliver value at pace by designing services that people find useful, easy and engaging to use. Typically, a Lab has a strong focus on problem solving in an agile environment where engineers are free to experiment and create innovative products which will transform the way our customers engage with us.

We're passionate about providing innovative solutions to support our customers in managing their Business cash-flow efficiently. This underpins our role in Helping Britain Recover and ultimately Prosper.

A great opportunity has arisen within the Direct Channels feature team as a Software Engineer in the Channels Lab. You'll collaborate with Product Owner, Customer journey manager and other Engineering teams, driving efforts to create, build, support and improve our software. As a software engineer within the Lab, you'll champion quality Engineering practices that align with Architectural and bank strategies.

Here's where you'll make a difference:

Your contribution will be instrumental to our strategy of simplifying, modernising, and de-risking the Business Transaction and Banking technology landscape, enabling the Bank of the Future and ultimately driving value for customers and shareholders. This is a key role at the financial heart of LBG, underpinning the long-term sustainability and integrity of the organisation.

Specifically you’ll:

• Contribute to setting the strategic direction for application development within the team.
• Ensure that software is built in a way that is consistent with the core Architectural frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider Engineering community.
• Work with Architects, providing input for key solution design artefacts.
• Be aware of industry innovation, and gain exposure to the knowledge required to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist.
• Our Software Engineers should have skills and experience that enable them to design innovative solutions in an increasingly digital world. Understanding how modern software applications are built and delivered is key.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, design and implement technical solutions as part of the ongoing platform engineering, including scaling, efficiency and performance tuning
• Contribute to technical design discussions to ensure optimal solutions are achieved
• Work in a highly collaborative Engineering team to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are sophisticated and often non-routine.
• Work closely with Customer Journey Managers and Product Owner to ensure requirements are clearly defined, tickets meet DoR and DoD criteria
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the entire application stack, with both breadth and depth, and possess exposure to microservices technologies, particularly Java 17, Spring Boot, Maven, Kafka K Stream, as well as RESTful APIs and web services.
• Work independently and take ownership whilst using own initiative
• Solid understanding of end-to-end SDLC
• Sound understanding and hands on experience of agile Development practices, DevOps pipelines, continuous integration / deployment and Test Automation (BDD), GHE Source code Management and the E2E software development lifecycle
• Knowledge of Change, Incident and Problem management processes. Knowledge of ITIL and production support tools, e.g Service Now, Production support experience.

Key Skills:

with solid experience of:

• Java / Java Script (Spring, Spring Boot, Node JS)
• Experience in working with Kafka , Microsoft Azure and IBM Aurora cloud servers
• Experience in relational databases (SQL or Oracle, etc)
• Experience in usage of Websphere / Collective controller / IHS
• Dev Ops Tooling : Jenkins / Maven / GitHub / Urban code / Dynatrace / Splunk and etc.
• Development of effective working relationships with partners and include qualities such as ethics, trustworthiness, and personal organisation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Hands-on experience on Microservices and exposing them as REST / SOAP API’s
• Experience in deploying services in on-prem and containerised (Kubernetes) environment
• Experience in Cloud deployments and providing solutions in hybrid cloud environment

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office.

In terms of personal skills, you’ll want to be a keen and comfortable communicator who is happy working with a wide range of technical and non-technical colleagues.

Together we'll make it possible...

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

Together we can play a part in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together.

As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Islands are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. These colleagues would therefore not be able to undertake roles for the Ring Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying.