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Lloyds Banking Group
May 18, 2024
Full time
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Salary: £66,861 -£74,290Location: ManchesterHours: (Full time / Part Time)Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office. About us We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. About this opportunity An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Software Engineer to work on the Core Banking System which aims to support around 30 million customers and 60 million accounts You'll be part of Everyday Banking in Consumer Relationships Platform working in the Vault Banking Products lab. The lab is focusing on building new core banking platform that will support servicing our customers through multiple channels and will enable the bank to create new innovative products for our customers using cutting edge cloud based technology platform. What you'll do Working with the most modern technology to deliver innovative solutions for our customers Hands-on designing and developing the new banking platform as well as integrating with heritage banking systems Working in an agile environment, alongside colleagues from both LBG and third party companies, both on and off-shore Mentoring junior team members including code reviews, problem solving, development and code standards including security standards Working within a strict QE-led methodology, delivering high quality software supported by fully automated testing frameworks Creating opportunities for your own learning and growth, as well as sharing finding with your peers Deploying developed applications using set tools and pipelines to all environments including production hosting on container based cloud platforms. What you'll need Core Java development skills Microservices architecture Good understanding of design patterns and build activities across the SDLC including unit testing, system testing, integration, security and performance testing Relentless focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles Working experience with Kafka for event driven communication between services Additional bonus: Experience in Cloud Applications Docker based container development and deployment on Kubernetes Understanding of CI/CD methodology and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Spinnaker etc Experience in Automated testing and TDD 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 Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
Lloyds Banking Group
May 18, 2024
Full time
Our Mission We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help. We're continuing our extensive data transformation programme, redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Become part of our diverse team where you'll impact the lives of more than 26 million customers through brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Widows. Why we're doing this? We're committed to Help Britain Prosper and become the best bank for customers. As part of this, we're redefining our data and digital capabilities, providing customers with personalised, simpler, continuous interactions across online, mobile and branches. Our digital platforms (public website, mobile & tablet app, and internet banking website) are where the majority of customer and colleague interactions with the bank take place. They are becoming increasingly sophisticated with the introduction of public API's, growing numbers of devices to access them from and evolving operating systems. Are you passionate about enhancing customer experience through creating powerful customer insight? We're looking for Customer Journey Managers to join our team, where you'll be responsible for understanding and optimising the end-to-end customer experience (both internal and external) to ensure the needs of the customer remain at the forefront of all journeys. You'll play a crucial role in product development; working with the Product Owner and the broader product team in understanding, measuring and orchestrating Customer Journeys with a focus on technology and on integrating across functions. Alongside the rest of the feature team, the CJM plays a key leading role in making sense of this insight and factoring it into prioritisation approaches and design choices. The role involves working with colleagues based on and offshore across multiple teams, across business functions, technology applications, and vendor solutions. The Team The Trade Execution Lab are a group of Product Owners, Integrators, Customer Journey Managers, Business Agility Leads and Engineers supporting the Markets business. We have a passion for the products we support, and a desire to improve the way we deliver change. We are hugely proud of the relationship we have built with our partners and users, adding visible value to the bank with our ability to react to change whilst keeping a strong focus on the ever growing regulatory environment. We work in an agile and collaborative manner, continuously learning, improving and sharing knowledge with the wider team. What you'll be doing Owning the journey means identifying customer needs, setting intent, developing roadmaps, and having a voice in refining backlogs and accepting changes into production. It also means monitoring and optimizing the customer experience and using feedback and data to drive continuous improvement. Here's where you'll make a difference: Independently understand and lead the end-to-end customer journey, documenting process maps and relevant guides to drive understanding. Integrate insight and knowledge from disparate data, processes and systems which are relevant to the customer journey to continually evaluates the effectiveness of the journey from a customer and business perspective. Drive a continuous improvement approach to your journey, coordinating cross-function and context to build alignment as required. Working with the Product Owner and other key stakeholders, maintain a good horizon of valuable change for your Customer Journey(s) Accept completed user stories that relate to the Customer Journey improvements in the backlog. Measure and monitor outcomes, using performance feedback to inform future improvements to be added to the roadmap, driving future data requirements. Work closely with Engineers on a day-to-day basis to shape the intent of the work, aligned to optimising the Customer Journey(s). You answer questions, clarify understanding and take away blockers & impediments relating to the challenges in delivering the changes to my Customer Journeys(s). About you Knowledge and experience of working across the business and engineering to define the E2E Payments and Swift journey, ideally in a Markets context Strong background knowledge of all Swift Message Types and the trading products they relate to. Experience of working with Payments ISO20022 message standards. Experience of working with Swift Payments messaging formatting Good understanding of Swift Industry Regulatory changes What do you get in return? We have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve an exciting and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working. You'll get to develop expertise in a wide range of data capabilities as well as come on our journey to Cloud based solutions. We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation. It also helps that we have a reputation for being a caring, encouraging employer, willing to support and invest in people as they move through life's phases and variety of challenges. We're proud to have received the following industry recognition: 'Stonewall Top Private Sector Employer', 'Top10 Employer for Working Families', 'The Times Top 50 Employer for Women', 'Gold Standard' and "Best Workplace Adjustments Process" from the Business Disability Forum - each demonstrating our dedication to the principles of agile working and inclusion for all. Sound like your ideal next workplace? If you have the right skills, we're after and playing a key role in our continuing transformation programme appeals then get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
Lloyds Banking Group Halifax, Yorkshire
May 17, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer - Homes Platform SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION(S): Halifax or Leeds 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 Halifax or Leeds Office About this opportunity 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. Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of Mortgages in the UK, with over 2 million active Mortgages. We have placed Mortgages at the heart of our strategy to become the best bank for customers. Are you ready to join our Homes Platform team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation? Within the Homes Platform we're on a journey to transform our core technology and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. Over the last 2 years we have launched new digital journeys on modern JavaScript frameworks, developed detailed suites of customer journey and analytics, transitioned workloads onto the Cloud and incrementally modernised and simplified our technology estate, whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to autonomously deploy changes to production themselves. Do you want to drive cultural change at the UK's largest digital bank? You would play a key role working collaboratively with other lab roles to create empowered Teams who are motivated to take on business problems and realise value to customers through excellence in execution Why Lloyds Banking Group? It's an exciting time to join us as we're investing in our people, data and platforms with £3bn over the next three years. We'll give you training in our change approach, a support network through our Agile community and the opportunity to develop your career here. So what are we looking for in you? You're a dynamic and adaptable individual - able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances You've a well-developed communication kit bag with extensive customer management experience A natural facilitator and decision-maker, you'll enable collaboration across all fields within the Lab You'll be a skilled negotiator, analytical thinker and problem solver As a leader and motivator you'll nurture team members to create a high performing team culture You'll lead, direct and control the delivery of benefits for our customers & colleagues You'll shape and lead major change initiatives which implement business strategies successfully And you'll influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members What will you bring? Strong engineering background with proven experience in modern web technologies, especially; React.js, Redux, React Hooks, Server Side Rendering, Typescript, HTML, CSS. Strong Software Engineering background and deep knowledge of agile development practices, TDD/BDD, automated builds, continuous integration, code quality metrics etc. Experience across the entire SDLC from inception, through build to production Problem solving, written and verbal communication, troubleshooting and analytical skills. Knowledge of effective cloud architecture solutions. What else could you bring with you? Exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases Good working knowledge of containerisation - e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Hosting 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!
Lloyds Banking Group Bristol, Gloucestershire
May 17, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Content Specialist (FTC/Secondment until 31/12/2024) SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £42,120 - £46,800 LOCATION: Bristol HOURS: 35 hours, full time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. This is a 12 month FTC/Secondment. About this opportunity Would you like to make a difference to the lives of our customers though digital content on our Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland business websites? You'll be part of a broader team that is shaping the future of the Business and Commercial banking's website, step-changing the customer experience, leading on development of new navigation, new components and major content upgrades supporting product, servicing, coverage and marketing to deliver their business objectives. What you'll do Be a credible consultant for customers across the business, truly understanding the capabilities of AEM and the components, proactively understanding the design systems across the site to provide recommendations focused on the customer, that we can build and that are consistent with the experience cross site Reviewing content requests for relevancy, accuracy and quality, collaborating with customers until quality standards are met and proactively involving your LM, our Content Strategist and Visual Designer for more complex briefs Ensuring execution of content change to websites are timely, accurate & accessibility friendly Responsibility for applying due diligence to authorise changes to the live websites Contributing to the overall performance and design standards of the public website, suggesting new ideas to make existing components better, or new components to uplift customer experience and website performance Completing simpler changes and proactively raising briefs to deliver small changes and identified errors/fixes Potentially use Adobe analytics to glean insights from existing customer behaviour to inform your thinking and recommendations and take findings from activity Why Lloyds Banking Group 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. If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, just let us know. What you'll need A solid grasp of CMS Systems, ideally AEM A proactive approach, a desire to make a difference, a commitment to better and real sense of accountability Attention to fine detail ensuring accuracy of change Partner management establishing relationships with colleagues to ensure the best outcome for our customers Good written communication skills, comfortable with data helpful Planning and organisation skills to ensure delivery according to business and customer requirements Experience in UX and UX principles Page build to support search engine optimisation and accessibility A real passion for empathising and translating customer needs, ensuring they have the customer in mind in all decisions 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 We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15% Share schemes including free shares Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 28 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.
Lloyds Banking Group
May 17, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Head of Pricing, Performance and Analytics LOCATION(S): London, Leeds or Bristol HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity Everyday Banking is the at the heart of our growth strategy with our Current Account and Overdrafts, Savings and Payments products supporting our mission to provide the best products for our UK customers and to grow relationships of the bank. We're redefining our team to work closely alongside our Platform teams focusing more on delivering customer solutions and better customer connections faster to deliver mobile first products, serving the needs of our customers faster. The Head of Pricing, Performance & Analytics is an inspirational leadership role whose purpose is to achieve the commercial objectives of the organisation through formation and deployment of excellent pricing strategies, supporting the strategic objectives of deeper customer relationships, delivering fair value for customers and providing strong commercial returns for the bank. This is achieved by developing and leveraging customer-level analytics to understand and influence performance levers and responding swiftly to changing market and economic factors. You will be responsible for managing a c. £200bn Savings book generating significant income across our iconic Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands, and innovative challenger propositions under our MBNA brand. This role reports into our Savings Products Director with the accountability to: Propose and implement pricing decisions that achieve a balanced scorecard of commercial and customer objectives and key results Set out a clear roadmap for competitive advantage through deep understanding of customer demand and market landscape. Develop and deploy robust commercial models that accurately predict customer and market trends, and continually enhance the analytical capability, customer and competitor insights Support the development of insightful and timely commercial analytics, pricing and forecasting models to support business decision making Report customer and commercial performance, analyse value drivers and identify opportunities for growth and improvement Continually scan the wider market for competitor and market trends impacting the revenue and costs of the business unit, evaluating and reporting against competitor activity About us Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you'll find them all here. What you'll need We'll be looking for these skills and experiences. But we know careers, like life, don't always go in a straight line. So, if you don't have some of these but think you've got what it takes, get in touch. We're hiring for attitude, experience, and expertise in equal measure. Have experience in Product Pricing & Commercialisation - Guiding teams in shaping innovative commercial / product pricing schemes that generate revenue and a healthy business environment for the Group. Be Commercially Driven and have Business Insight - Robust and committed focus on business performance ensuring our pricing strategies help us deepen customer relationships, and drive insight that delivers fair value for customers and commercial return for the bank. Using marketplace knowledge and a strong network across the business in order to make timely decisions for the Group. Experienced presenter and effective story teller with ability to convey complex matters to a diverse range of stakeholders. You'll have Data Literacy - Staying updated with the latest data trends and anticipating new data analysis requirements for the Group. Developing data literacy strategies and/or best practices and learning to be adopted across the Group to drive data literacy capability. Be a Critical Thinker - Constantly seeking to challenge own assumptions for weaknesses, logic and biases. Using innovation, expertise and deep knowledge of the Group and Industry to anticipate future problems, coaching others and taking mitigating action. Evaluating solutions and making changes to increase effectiveness of the solutions as required. Understand our Control and Regulatory environment - Creating a deep culture of understanding the regulatory environment and the application to your business. Driving a control environment transformation & automation. Making decisions and recommendations to deliver for our customers at pace within the regulatory risk environment. Have a Product Innovation & Development mindset - Redefining thinking and inspiring the conceptualisation of new and innovative products that create significant business impact. Using external expertise to ensure an effective delivery of these products to market. 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. If you'd like to find out more, please contact Neil Temple or Vivek Khattri
Lloyds Banking Group Bristol, Gloucestershire
May 17, 2024
Full time
SALARY: £68,202-83,358 per annum LOCATION: Bristol HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office. ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY Our Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for an experienced and passionate Engineer with strong hands-on development experience. As a Cloud SRE you'll be an active and leading member of a cloud-focused team of engineers - working on one of the Group's flagship projects to run and maintain a set of products and services on the Google Cloud Platform that will enable the business to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank's vision for 2023 and beyond! Specific activities might include: Working with service teams to directly influence and drive the adoption of SRE best practices and ways of working within our microservices; Collaborating with infrastructure engineers to ensure resilience and scalability across the platform; Observing, investigating & fixing service issues, with an engineering mentality - resolving via code changes and implementing improvements to prevent repeat issues. Implementing further automation and reducing toil, by utilising existing Cloud tooling or implementing new technologies The successful candidate will work across multiple labs and signature projects in the Digital space. ABOUT US We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. WHAT YOU'LL NEED We like our teams to be as diverse as the customers and communities we serve and are really looking for someone passionate about data, ambitious and has a good problem-solving mindset. On your CV, we need to see the following to consider you for interview: Background Ideally you'll come from a software engineering or telemetry background and have now moved into an SRE role. Technical Skills Experience working with a broad set of GCP products (or extensive experience with another Public Cloud platform, such as Azure or AWS) and Cloud security and networking; Hands-on working experience of building and administering Kubernetes clusters in a production environment and experience in automating/scripting to remove toil; Ability to quickly understand, update and write code in languages such as Python, Java, Golang BASH and PowerShell; Working experience monitoring SLO's, SLI's and SLAs and logging updates and alerting where appropriate; Strong DevOps understanding and familiarity, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps; Behavioural Skills Mentoring other engineers in SRE best practices; Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent troubleshooting skills; Strong understanding of the software engineering life cycle and able to work collaboratively as part of an engineering team; And any experience of these would be really useful Be proficient in the following tooling - Dynatrace, Stackdriver/Cloud Operations Suite, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud logging, Cloud Consumption and RTL viewer 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 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 If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
Lloyds Banking Group Leeds, Yorkshire
May 17, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Manager - Financial Crime Analysis LOCATION(S): Flexible (Belfast/ Dunfermline/ Halifax / Leeds / are existing Hubs) HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site There are 2 available roles. About this opportunity This role is an exciting opportunity to be play a key part in managing a team of analysts to improve our financial crime transaction monitoring capabilities. The topic of financial crime is captivating and playing a part in protecting the bank and our customers is exceptionally satisfying. Furthermore, with constantly evolving trends, the work is exciting and varied, offering plenty of stretch and development. So, if you want to help lead a team where you can influence stakeholders on exciting topics, showcase your skills, and learn a whole variety of new ones, if you love the challenge of spotting a problem and working out how to fix it, we'd love to hear from you! Some of the things you'll be doing Builds and maintains effective relationships with key stakeholders to improve financial crime transaction monitoring. Creation of routines that enable the team to react to new emerging financial crime risks using data and intelligence and establish a data driven responses to these risks. Transform financial crime defences ready by developing insight, approach to detection rules and support the development of the financial crime detection system. Analyses key themes using data from a wide range of sources and identifies possible impacts on the business. Identifies shortcomings in financial crime defences, controls or processes, suggests improvements and implement approved revisions within assigned unit and/or discipline. About us Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you'll find them all here. What you'll need We're looking for an experienced fraud & financial crime or risk professional who can demonstrate the following: Experience of people management and analytical coaching within an analytics function. Experience of working with large data sets to produce insightful data evaluation and analytics, creating accurate insights and recommendations. Strong ability to present analytical data in appropriate, interesting, and compelling ways. Have a growth mindset and a willingness to learn. Experience of prioritisation of activities in a busy, fast-paced environment. Ability to manage and prioritise BAU workflow within tight deadlines. And any experience of these would be really useful Some knowledge of economic crime regulation is useful Confident coding skills (SAS/ SQL or a similar data language) 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 If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
Lloyds Banking Group Jersey, Channel Isles
May 16, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE : Solution Architect LOCATION(S): Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man HOURS : Full time WORKING PATTERN : Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office site. About this opportunity: Lloyds Bank International is in an exciting era of growth with an ambition to be the fastest growing business in LBG. Our plans are to double our income by 2026, and to do this we are expanding our footprint via our digital banking channels. We currently have an outstanding opportunity for a dynamic Solution Architect to join our digital banking team as we undergo this growth. We're looking for an individual to help us to shape and define our solution landscape across our digital banking space, helping us to deliver even better customer propositions through future-focussed capabilities. What will you be doing with us? Playing a key role in the team that delivers features and initiatives across our International digital channels, including internet banking, iOS and Android banking apps and online application forms. Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our feature team. Support Product Owner in triaging business requests, providing insight into technical feasibility and viability of delivering business changes. Translate business requirements into viable solutions to then be worked on by business analysts, engineers and quality engineers. Engage with business needs and strategy to enable recommendation of technical solutions that minimises tech debt for long term, and allows construction of technology solutions that strategically align with and drive Crown Dependencies goals. Validate technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies. Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practices. Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture. Leveraging industry best practice, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers. Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for banking platform capability or feature development. Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures. Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap. Delivers prescribed outcomes for a designated area, using risk management systems to ensure the organisation is not exposed to undue risks. Conducts research using primary data sources and selects relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends. Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports (if applicable) by working within existing development framework; provides specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation. Sets medium term objectives and takes responsibility for implement a team's performance management systems with guidance from senior colleagues. Highlights shortcomings and suggests improvements in current IT Security processes, systems and procedures within assigned unit and/or discipline. What you'll need: A passion for digital product development with a customer-centric approach. Strong technical background with previous experience in agile product development. Experience analysing options to deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery. Experience of application, data, infrastructure and security domains and an ability to liaise close with architects in these domains to develop best practice solutions. Experience of producing clear analytical documentation for review by a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders, e.g. process maps, sequence diagrams. Ability to organise and prepares complex documents by using multiple computer applications (such as Microsoft Office, Visio), while also gathering and summarising data for special reports. Experience of infrastructure and security related challenges (e.g. firewalls, gateways) and working with infrastructure/security teams to resolve. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of collaborating with cross functional teams across multiple jurisdictions. Desirable but not essential: Experience working with digital banking channels, across iOS, Android and web-based internet banking. Experience working in a large-scale financial services provider. Experience with on-premise versus cloud-based solutions. Experience with design and development of technical solutions, including websites, REST APIs, SDKs, using .NET (C#/Javascript) and/or Java; experience with hosting platforms, e.g. IIS, Apache, Nginx. Experience with database development and/or administration using SQL Server (preferred), MySQL or PostgreSQL. About working for us: We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't 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. 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. 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 include: 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; 28 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.
Lloyds Banking Group
May 16, 2024
Full time
Business Manager - Market Platform Our Mission We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help. We're continuing our extensive data transformation programme, redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Become part of our diverse team where you'll impact the lives of more than 26 million customers through brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, and Scottish Widows. Why we're doing this? We're committed to Help Britain Prosper and become the best bank for customers. As part of this, we're redefining our data and digital capabilities, providing customers with personalised, simpler, continuous interactions across online, mobile and branches. Our digital platforms (public website, mobile & tablet app, and internet banking website) are where the majority of customer and colleague interactions with the bank take place. They are becoming increasingly sophisticated with the introduction of public API's, growing numbers of devices to access them from and evolving operating systems. The team We are part of the Markets Platform, who provide end to end management and development of Financial Markets, Capital Markets and Trade Services for the Corporate & Institutional Banking business in Lloyds Banking Group. As a Business Management team, we are passionate about supporting and guiding the Platform and Lab leads to achieve Business goals. Business Management are the go-to people when it comes to finances, delivery governance, people and processes. You'll manage and support delivery of required outcomes in terms of governance reporting for the Platform initiatives. You'll manage risk reporting and will support platform leadership with risk management activities inc. Audit, Risk & Control Self-Assessment and will support the Divisional Resilience and Security Office. As a team, if we don't know the answer, we definitely know someone that does! Here's where you'll make a difference Are you articulate with a flair for words and storytelling? You'll be supporting the Platform leads to present status updates to Executive committees and Board Level meetings, and for making the updates interesting. If you have a knack for making the intricate seem intuitive and can convey technical concepts to a non-technical audience with ease, we would love to hear from you. Do you have excellent partner management skills? You'll be collaborating with and managing relationships with internal customers acting as a business partner, supporting Platform Leads with change activity, including operating model and productivity activities, collaborating with Product Owners with QBR write up in memo/tooling. Do you have a passion for process optimisation, problem solving & analysis? You'll be supporting BAL activity around identifying shortcomings, suggesting improvements, and implementing approved revisions to platform processes, systems and procedures. About you Any experience of writing board or Executive committee papers. Working in an IT change delivery area as a BM. Delivery progress reporting. Addtionally you'll have the below; Communication - skilled communicator capable of transforming complex technical language into clear and concise executive reports. Your expertise in distilling tech-speak into plain English will be pivotal in bridging the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders. Action Orientated - Proactively take on new opportunities and deliver against commitments with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. Focuses on creating and implementing a plan, while driving progress in a clear and sustainable way. Stakeholder Management - Manage and resolve conflict and ensure the right people involved or impacting their work have a joint understanding and expectation of the work, what is happening, the implications and crucially their role in making it successful. Agile Mindset - Work with an agile mentality and within methodologies to drive pace and adaptability in the delivery of value. What do you get in return? We have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve an exciting and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working. You'll get to develop expertise in a wide range of data capabilities as well as come on our journey to Cloud based solutions. We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation. It also helps that we have a reputation for being a caring, encouraging employer, willing to support and invest in people as they move through life's phases and variety of challenges. We're proud to have received the following industry recognition: 'Stonewall Top Private Sector Employer', 'Top10 Employer for Working Families', 'The Times Top 50 Employer for Women', 'Gold Standard' and "Best Workplace Adjustments Process" from the Business Disability Forum - each demonstrating our dedication to the principles of agile working and inclusion for all. Sound like your ideal next workplace? If you have the right skills, we're after and playing a key role in our continuing transformation programme appeals then get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
Lloyds Banking Group Edinburgh, Midlothian
May 15, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Senior Android Engineer SALARY: £66,861 - £74,290 LOCATION: Edinburgh Only HOURS: Full-time 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. About this opportunity Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We're building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters. Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we're there for customers in the moments that matter. We're bold and we love to experiment. We're not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive. As part of our Edinburgh based team, you will work to evolve our Digital Channels (native mobile, web, Internet Banking) by adding new functionality and propositions and evolving existing capability through Agile methodology. Primarily focused on our award-winning mobile app, microservice backend and GCP infrastructure; you will play a key part in all stages of development from ideation and refinement, through code build and on to production. Why Lloyds Banking Group 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 Professional working knowledge in building a mobile experience for variable screen sizes in variable versions of Android Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices Experience in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, co-routines and performance tuning Fantastic knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks and benchmarking and optimisation Proficient in Google's Android design principles, interface guidelines and code versioning tools, such as Git Hands-on experience of continuous delivery across areas such as code reviewing; understanding of App architectures (i.e. MVVM, MVI) and you'll be confident with best practices libraries And any experience of these would be really useful Cloud message APIs and push notifications JavaScript WebView bridging, as well as knowledge of RESTful APIs and web services Android Architecture Components 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 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.
Lloyds Banking Group Edinburgh, Midlothian
May 14, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Product Owner - Identity & Authentication LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Halifax SALARY: £57,546 to £63,940 HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office site. About this opportunity: An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Identity & Authentication (ID&A) Platform for a Product Owner to join the team. The platform is responsible for managing key authentication, identification and authorisation capabilities across LBG through an enterprise wide product offering which extends across multiple business units, customer bases and geographies. You'll work with high impact innovative technology that is not just the bank of the future, but industry trailblazing in securing digital access across multiple channels. The ID&A Platform is the front door to the bank; whether the customer is logging on, making a payment or shopping online, this platform and the colleagues running it will ensure a positive customer experience providing assurance that their money is safe, whilst also offering balanced security keeping fraudsters out. You'll be at the forefront of an exciting period for the Platform as a true enabler of a wide variety of business needs. Why Lloyds Banking Group: We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What Will You Do? We're looking for a Product Owner to join the growing Identity and Authentication Lab. You'll lead on the shaping and delivery of a range of exciting initiatives that help us achieve our objectives of providing authentication, identification and authorisation capabilities that meet the needs of our customers while reducing friction where possible. This could include driving the adoption of new authentication methods, containerising and re-platforming, working on the strategic integration of the Bank's dynamic risk engine within authentication journeys or developing the self-service proposition for the Platform. You'll have autonomy to influence and drive your product strategy in the domain you own. As well as working directly with engineering teams to build new features and release them for business consumption, you'll collaborate with Design and Data teams to understand customer problems and ideate the right solution. Aside from this you'll need to work with a diverse range of stakeholders and cross-functional teams to both run and improve your products. You'll be operating within a complex environment to deliver high quality outputs and challenge the status quo. We're looking for you to develop a culture of innovation and collaboration, role modelling a customer-centric approach at all times, while creating an environment in which people bring out the best in themselves ensuring they feel safe to experiment. No two days will be the same; it's a truly exciting role with scope to grow and develop in your career. What we need from you: We'll be specifically looking for you to have had experience in some of the following: Working with business, technical and cross-functional teams to deliver change Strategic / complex transformations Payments architecture Working in a B2B environment with experience in developing self-service products a distinct advantage Advanced stakeholder management and an eye for business Identity and/or authentication An understanding of back-end, web and mobile app technology and cloud-based services is beneficial but not essential 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 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.
Lloyds Banking Group Edinburgh, Midlothian
May 14, 2024
Full time
Power Apps Developer Location : Edinburgh Hours : Full time Working Pattern : Hybrid, at least 2 days in the office. About this opportunity You will play a vital role in the HR (People & Places) Data Hub by developing and maintaining a Power Apps tool for HR change processes, including organisational change and implementation. You will promote data products and provide actionable insights, ultimately contributing to optimised workforce management and strategic People initiatives. A DevOps Engineer with a solid IT background and expert skills in DevOps Engineering. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise and great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model. They will also lead and participate in Engineering Guilds and Working Groups to actively promote the DevOps brand in LBG. You will Maintain and develop Power Platform technologies, including Power Apps and Power Automate, and Power BI. Build and maintaining a complex set of Dataverse tables, using these to drive new insights and improved processes across the current HR landscape. Champion the value of data-driven decision-making across the bank by promoting HR data products and their benefits. Remove barriers to analysis through automating processes and removing / simplifying legacy architecture Collaborate with HR teams, business leaders, and cross-functional partners to understand their data needs and provide relevant insights. Extract meaningful insights from HR data analytics and present them in a clear and actionable manner to stakeholders through effective data storytelling. Lead efforts to enhance data literacy among colleagues, offering training and support to enable effective data usage. Develop a deep understanding of HR data products, their methodologies, and applications, ensuring accurate communication. Advocate for and ensure adherence to data governance standards and policies while sharing data insights. Contribute to the enhancement of Power Apps by implementing feedback and insights from stakeholders. Experience in working in agile methodology ways of working Collaborate with HR and Organisational Change teams and stakeholders to identify data-driven opportunities and challenges. Promote HR data products, showcasing their benefits and applicability to different business contexts. Translate complex HR data insights into actionable recommendations for strategic decision-making. Develop and deliver engaging presentations and reports that convey data-driven insights to non-technical stakeholders. Provide training sessions and workshops to enhance colleagues' data literacy and analytical skills. Collaborate with data analysts and scientists to ensure data products meet stakeholder needs. Foster a culture of data-driven decision-making and curiosity across the bank. Stay informed about industry trends and advancements in HR data analytics. What you'll need Power Platform and Microsoft Technology Expert: Hands-on engineering experience using key Power Platform Services: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI. Tooling: Experience in Power Virtual Agents, Python, other low code /Pro code technology. Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively engage and collaborate with colleagues at all levels. Data Presentation: Proficient in conveying complex data insights through presentations, reports, and visualisations. HR and Organisational Change Domain Knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of HR processes, policies, and regulations within the banking sector. Communication: Clear and concise communication skills to convey data insights and recommendations. Problem Solving: Creative problem-solving skills to address unique data-related challenges. Automation: Clear understanding of what automation is, the benefits it can deliver and some experience fulfilling this in a previous role / personal environment. Cloud Technology Knowledge: Preferably Google Cloud Platform. 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.
Lloyds Banking Group Edinburgh, Midlothian
May 14, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE : Cloud Architect SALARY : £86,964 - £102,310 LOCATION ( S): Edinburgh HOURS : Full time WORKING PATTERN : Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office site. About this opportunity : Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Group strategic view by working closely & collaboratively across the Platform leadership team to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. PEC enables & delivers personalised customer communications & experiences across all channels, media and business areas supporting the Customer Relationship Growth strategy to deepen relationships with our customers across both the retail & commercial bank. This includes the data, analytics, and technology to unlock the value of differentiating our branded channel experiences, proposition, price and communication; as well as paper-free sustainable ambitions. This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Cloud Architect. As Cloud Architect you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating solution requirements into robust cloud solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our cloud solutions working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy. Why Lloyds Banking Group : We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. What will you be doing with us? The ideal Cloud Architect will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for cloud engineering excellence. We are looking for a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You'll be continuously learning about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members. Essential skills and experience: Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, hosting patterns & services (especially GCP), cloud security, resilience, and operational excellence Strong understanding of microservices, containerisation, cloud native, data architectures and event-driven design concepts Strong understanding of API standards, security, networking, ingress/egress patterns & FinOps Strong understanding of data technologies - SQL/NoSQL, Big Data Experience working with enterprise-wide cloud patterns - networks, security, ingress/egress Knowledge of ML/AI and data capabilities in GCP Strong experience & knowledge of some key LBG development technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Java Spring Boot, Python) Knowledge of the SDLC & SRE It would be great if you also had Experience in the Banking & Finance industry Cloud Certifications, particularly GCP Preferable experience with ML/AI & Data Tooling in GCP Experience in agile / iterative design working practices 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 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. 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 keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 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.
Lloyds Banking Group
May 13, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Senior Security Engineer SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION: Manchester HOURS: 35 hours, full time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. About this opportunity This role is within our Network and Perimeter Security team. Our remit includes delivering new security products and services whilst continually improving our existing ones. Our approach to Cloud is product aligned which means that this role will include tasks that related to the end to end shaping and support of our product. This can include strategy, roadmaps, build and run. We're looking for a motivated individual to ensure that the appropriate security controls are in place and effective. You'll be focusing on keeping bank services safe while simultaneously supporting programme timescales and business outcomes. You should be able to define security requirements, create designs, identify risks and define controls to mitigate the risks. These skills will help you to guide technical programmes ensuring that security is embedded in the best manner for the Bank. As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will be working across the Group's Google and Azure cloud platforms to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank's vision. In this role you'll be: Providing security leadership, guidance and consultation to diverse teams built from a mixture of LBG employee's, contractors and 3rd party consultants Owning the end-to-end security view for specific platform components and shared services Becoming an SME for Products / Services in your aligned Product Team: delivering change, fulfilling run tasks and scoping then delivering enhancements to existing capabilities / processes Supporting new joiners and enhancing onboarding / upskilling processes Contributing to team and platform maturity with recommendations, ideas and improvements Working with the Lead Security Engineer and Product Owner to define a roadmap for Product Team owned Products + Services Why Lloyds Banking Group From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose. What you'll need Hands on engineering experience working with: Terraform, Python, Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, IaC, PaaS Hands on experience working with network security tooling eg: Firewalls, WAF, IDPS, NDR, DDoS etc Conceptual knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins Significant DevOps / Engineer experience Network security tooling experience Experience working on a Public Cloud - Azure or GCP And any experience of these would be really useful Cloud and Security certifications 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 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.
Lloyds Banking Group Bristol, Gloucestershire
May 11, 2024
Full time
Data Solution Engineer Lloyds Banking Group Bristol - hybrid working pattern, 2 days per week in office & rest from home Salary & Benefits: £68,202 to £83,358 base salary depending on location and experience. Additional Package: Annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash allowance, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. Where does the role sit?We're the Data & Machine Learning Platforms within Lloyds Banking Group! We support all areas of the bank, so products you work on could apply to any area of financial services and we've got one of the largest data sets available in FS for you to draw upon. We're well funded, and we're expanding rapidly! What exactly does a Data Solution Engineer do? You'll interface to different areas of the business in order to understand their business problems revolving around data, then once you have built a picture of their data capabilities and required support, you can help to shape & accelerate the divisions data capabilities. You'll collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams.You'll be providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery. You'll owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises. We operate using modern Agile engineering practices so you'll participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture. You'll be supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously evergreening solutions/systems within the Platform. What do we need to see from your application? We're keen to see diverse and varied applications, however as this is a senior role in a niche industry area we'll need to see the following as a minimum to be considered for interview; A prior career background with significant experience of Solution Design specific to the Data industry. You'll need to have developed a depth of knowledge around standard data management practices, a passion for what can be achieved using data and an appreciation of what benefits can be derived from data (essential). Broad knowledge of potential solutions utilising Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence or Business Intelligence. You'll need a solid grounding in more than one area. Advanced experience in Cloud Architecture, designing data/analytics solutions in the cloud, ideally GCP. In practice, not just theory. Excellent communication skills Why else should this role be of interest? We offer excellent training, certification, career opportunities and a relaxed working environment. We're a lovely bunch of people. We're growing and will continue to do so for years to come so you'll have good career development opportunities. We promote equal opportunities, and welcome applications from employees from a diverse range of backgrounds. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions.
Lloyds Banking Group
May 11, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Head of Customer Solutions - Current Account Overdrafts & Fixed Savings LOCATION(S): Flexible (London, Bristol, Halifax and Leeds) HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity Everyday Banking is the at the heart of our growth strategy with our Current Account and Overdrafts, Savings and Payments products supporting our mission to provide the best products for our UK customers and to grow relationships of the bank. We have created brand-new roles and seeking individuals who'll continue to lead on solving customer and commercial problems. You'll have a deep understanding of our commercial drivers and the OKRs that we're driving, and you'll make sure we're constantly understanding our performance against these. This is an inspirational leadership role whose purpose is to deliver the commercial results of the organisation (revenue) driven by our products and balance sheet; ensuring good customer outcomes for the customers who experience our products; ownership of risk decisions based on regulatory compliance; the delivery of customer led experiences, products and solutions in partnership with the platforms and through the product owners. What you can expect to do ! Deliver the commercial revenue and product budget targets Deliver the customer volume targets Develop, shape and deliver the commercial objectives for the business, setting stretching P&L goals, managing performance and leading major strategic change from inception to execution Ownership of the risk decisions and expert regulatory knowledge to deliver products that meet regulations such as Consumer Duty Accountable for an effective system of risk management and internal controls to identify, assess, monitor, control and mitigate risks to the Group in line with risk appetite, including adherence to the Group's policies, procedures, statutory and regulatory responsibilities, and fully satisfy legal and regulatory requirements Ensure solutions are mobile first, personalised and add value by implementing the consumer relationships strategy About us Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you'll find them all here. What you'll need We'll be looking for these skills and experiences. But we know careers, like life, don't always go in a straight line. So, if you don't have some of these but think you've got what it takes, get in touch. We're hiring for attitude, experience, and expertise in equal measure. Customer Centric - Promoting value of customer outcomes with team and peers and ensuring work efforts achieve these. Anticipating customers' needs and using customer insights to present targeted, integrated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities. You'll be Commercially Driven - Robust and committed focus on business performance ensuring our products meet our customers' needs and support our growth strategy and business objective to build deep customer relationships. Understand our Control and Regulatory environment - Creating a deep culture of understanding the regulatory environment and the application to your business. Making decisions and recommendations to deliver for our customers at pace within the regulatory risk environment, embedding strong governance and audit trails for the approach taken. You'll have a Product Innovation & Development attitude - Redefining thinking and inspiring the conceptualisation of new and innovative products that create significant business impact. Using external expertise to ensure an effective delivery of these products to market. Product Delivery focused - Leading improvements on product development process and delivery using new agile methodology, techniques, tools, etc. You'll be a People Leader - Inspiring, empowering and inclusive to lead your teams through change and provide the stretch, coaching, feedback and development to create an extraordinary environment to come to work. 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 If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!
Lloyds Banking Group
May 11, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Head of Customer Connections - PCA, Overdrafts and Savings LOCATION(S): Flexible (London, Bristol, Halifax and Leeds) HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity Everyday Banking is the at the heart of our growth strategy with our Current Account and Overdrafts, Savings and Payments products supporting our mission to provide the best products for our UK customers and to grow relationships of the bank. We have created brand-new roles and seeking individuals who have the commercial insight and deep regulatory knowledge of our products as you solve customer problems to meet commercial objectives. We're looking for someone who has dedicated focus on driving improved customer experiences, with a mobile first and self-serve attitude. This will enable us to deliver customer satisfaction and engagement results. You'll collaborate with the wider business to improve customer contact, journeys, marketing, engagement messaging, and the delivery of personalised engagement. Together, you'll improve our customers' experience with our brands, increasing the likelihood that customers will recommend us. We're heavily investing in our Everyday Banking products and teams, to deliver our purpose of Helping Britain Prosper. And that's why we need someone special. The role: The Head of Customer Connections is an inspirational leadership role whose purpose is to deliver the commercial results of the organisation (revenue) driven by the personalisation of our propositions as we communicate to customers, improved customer experience in our mobile app, and clear commercial result driven incentives we deliver in support of our products. Creating brand differentiating engagement with our Chief Customer Office and Brands Marketing and Experience colleagues, with regulatory compliant products. This role reports into our Products Directors, and we have two vacancies supporting our Current Account and Overdrafts and Savings teams to: Deliver the customer volume targets based on a deep understanding of customer behaviours and drivers of customer activity to improve customer conversion, funnel improvement, activation, engagement and retention Deliver the commercial revenue targets with clear understanding of commercial drivers and P&L management Through expertise, understanding of UX and design along with a mobile first attitude, you'll lead a team that delivers best in class, personalised customer engagement in partnership with lab design teams Drive strong customer engagement to deliver constant improvement of the customer experiences driven by mobile first solutions resulting in better customer retention and deepening relationships Set the standard on communicating with customers and work with BME and CCO to drive these changes informed by best-in-class practices and demonstrating personalisation where possible Act as a Customer Outcome Specialist, delivering customer outcomes through regular customer engagement as required by the product About us Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you'll find them all here. What you'll need We'll be looking for these skills and experiences. But we know careers, like life, don't always go in a straight line. So, if you don't have some of these but think you've got what it takes, get in touch. We're hiring for attitude, experience, and expertise in equal measure. You'll be Customer Centric - Promoting value of customer outcomes with team and peers and ensuring work efforts achieve these. Anticipating customers' needs and using customer insights to present targeted, integrated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities. Applying knowledge of customer behaviours and trends across multiple parts of the Group and externally, upskilling peers, and is a thought leader in delivering customer products and propositions that build on our competitive edge and good customer outcomes. You'll be Commercially Driven - Robust and committed focus on business performance ensuring our products meet our customers' needs and support our growth strategy and business objective to build deep customer relationships. You'll understand our Control and Regulatory environment - Creating a deep culture of understanding the regulatory environment and the application to your business. Driving a control environment transformation & automation. Making decisions and recommendations to deliver for our customers at pace within the regulatory risk environment, embedding strong governance and audit trails for the approach taken. You'll have a Product Innovation & Development mindset - Redefining thinking and inspiring the conceptualisation of new and innovative products that create significant business impact. Using external expertise to ensure an effective delivery of these products to market. You'll be Product Delivery focused - Leading improvements on product development process and delivery using new agile methodology, techniques, tools, etc. You'll be a People Leader - Inspiring, empowering and inclusive to lead your teams through change and provide the stretch, coaching, feedback and development to create an extraordinary environment to come to work. 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 If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!
Lloyds Banking Group Bristol, Gloucestershire
May 11, 2024
Full time
Data Solution Engineer Lloyds Banking Group Bristol - hybrid working pattern, 2 days per week in office & rest from home Salary & Benefits: £68,202 to £83,358 base salary depending on location and experience. Additional Package: Annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash allowance, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. Where does the role sit? We're the Data & Machine Learning Platforms within Lloyds Banking Group! We support all areas of the bank, so products you work on could apply to any area of financial services and we've got one of the largest data sets available in FS for you to draw upon. We're well funded, and we're expanding rapidly! What exactly does a Data Solution Engineer do? You'll interface to different areas of the business in order to understand their business problems revolving around data, then once you have built a picture of their data capabilities and required support, you can help to shape & accelerate the divisions data capabilities. You'll collaborate with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams. You'll be providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery. You'll owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises. We operate using modern Agile engineering practices so you'll participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture. You'll be supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously evergreening solutions/systems within the Platform. What do we need to see from your application? We're keen to see diverse and varied applications, however as this is a senior role in a niche industry area we'll need to see the following as a minimum to be considered for interview; A prior career background with significant experience of Solution Design specific to the Data industry. You'll need to have developed a depth of knowledge around standard data management practices, a passion for what can be achieved using data and an appreciation of what benefits can be derived from data (essential). Broad knowledge of potential solutions utilising Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence or Business Intelligence. You'll need a solid grounding in more than one area. Advanced experience in Cloud Architecture, designing data/analytics solutions in the cloud, ideally GCP. In practice, not just theory. Excellent communication skills Why else should this role be of interest? We offer excellent training, certification, career opportunities and a relaxed working environment. We're a lovely bunch of people. We're growing and will continue to do so for years to come so you'll have good career development opportunities. We promote equal opportunities, and welcome applications from employees from a diverse range of backgrounds. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions.
Lloyds Banking Group
May 08, 2024
Full time
Head of Technology and Change - Crown Dependencies We support agile working Click here for more information on agile working options. Agile Working Options Agile Working Options Job Share; Hybrid Working Head of Technology and Change - Crown Dependencies Location:London, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man Hours: Full time About This Opportunity This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a newly formed Lloyds Banking Group's Crown Dependencies Technology and Change team at a time of incredible change and growth. The Crown Dependencies business is in an exciting era of growth with an ambition to be the fastest growing business in LBG, with plans in place to double its income by 2026. The Crown Dependencies is a key part of the Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets and Corporate & Institutional Banking business operating primarily across Jersey, Guernsey, and Isle of Man. Our Crown Dependencies business is effectively a bank within a bank. Crown dependencies have c 570 colleagues based in Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, UK and has 6 branches and offer a full range of banking services. We're looking for an experienced and progressive leader to manage and drive our newly formed Technology and Change team supporting the Crown Dependencies. Reporting directly to the CEO, Crown Dependencies, the Head of Technology and Change will be responsible for developing and transforming the Technology strategy for the business. This is a unique and exciting role for LBG in that we have our own standalone IT platform and systems. The Head of Technology and Change will work closely with their own team and RFB partners to provide the best offering to our customers. Key Accountabilities: Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement a forward-thinking Technology and Change strategy that uses market trends, customer insights, and competitive analysis to position LBG as a premier player in the Crown Dependencies market. Be a key contributor to the Crown Dependencies Leadership team and present to senior audiences e.g. LBCM Board Communication & Relationship Management: Cuts through complexity to find clear solutions and condense into clear messaging for varied audiences. Able to collaborate across business units to form positive relationships based on trust with a wide variety of senior stakeholders. Effectiveness: Make significant step change improvements in key customer experience metrics and service satisfaction, for example NPS Thought Leadership: Help lead the development and implementation of solutions that require a multi-disciplinary approach to solving. Working to solve with multiple stakeholders Team Leadership: Build and lead a high-performance team, providing mentorship, guidance, and fostering a culture of innovation, cross functional leadership, data driven problem solving and collaboration with the RFB Budget Management: Secure and manage a technology and change investment portfolio effectively, prioritising high-impact initiatives and optimising ROI Risk and Compliance: Owns Technology and Change risk framework, clear ability to manage risk effectively, take calculated risks and foster a strong control environment What you'll need: Deep understanding of Technology and change - at least 10 years' experience Experience using agile methodology & tools - holds overall responsibility for leading, inspiring and engaging a large and diverse team across the business, delivering high priority or significant change. Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills - including persuasive, influencing and motivational skills, as you'll be required to engage with senior leadership to understand long-term strategic opportunities and challenges to help support the prioritisation of appropriate actions Partner Management - Uses personal impact and positioning to build and sustain long-term relationships at all levels (including C-suite Executives). Ability to resolve disagreements, build consensus and influences outcomes. Planning, Tracking, Reporting & Governance - Ability to draw on appropriate Status Reporting, Product/Platform/Lab Roadmaps and attendance at agile meetings to form a view on progress, status, risks and issues, resolving high priority issues affecting delivery. Emotional Intelligence - Uses customer/colleague input to anticipate needs and steer targeted and outcome-focused plans. Leadership & Culture - Experience of leading a team and applying situational judgement and experience to advise on a broad range of cultural topics (e.g. ethical leadership and accountability), using strategies such as deep listening to ensure colleagues are engaged. Innovative approach and willingness to challenge the status quo to achieve 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 Channel Islands and Isle of Man are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in these locations would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles. By joining our Talent Community your profile will be visible to our recruitment teams, who are constantly looking to match outstanding talent with our current and future opportunities. Just complete the short form and we'll be able to keep you up to date. 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.
Lloyds Banking Group
May 08, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer - Personalised Experiences & Communications Platform SALARY: £78,849 - £87,610 LOCATION(S): 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 this opportunity This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Cloud Engineer. As the Cloud Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy. What you'll do: This is a key role in the team so you will have the opportunity work with all our feature teams to establish the cloud patterns and principles of the team in line with the Group's methodologies. You'll focus on the cloud elements of the solutions, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly while continuously improving and developing our processes. You will be responsible for the build & support for shared hosting services such as Kubernetes, Ingress/Egress, Networking patterns, Certificates & data resources You'll focus on the cloud engineering elements of the software engineering role, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly in the cloud while continuously improving and developing our processes. You'll help us to learn and implement the best use of DevOps tools & cloud resources, like Jenkins, Kubernetes, Harness and help us maintain our hosting platform. Creating and improving routes to live with automation including blue/green & canary strategies. Configure and improve observability controls. Proving scalability/resilience and security controls. Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering teams. 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 we are looking for An ideal Cloud Engineer will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence. We are looking for a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You'll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members. We would be looking for the following We are looking for someone who comes from a DevOps, Cloud or Software engineering background that has a solid understanding of Cloud delivery, best practices, processes and supporting tools. We would also look for - Strong Cloud Engineering and DevOps exposure preferably GCP Proven experience and understanding of cloud native solutions Proven experience configuring & running production workloads in Kubernetes CI/CD & IaC tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Sonar, Nexus, Git, Spinnaker, Harness Strong understanding & experience of Observability, SRE, DevSecOps & FinOps Good understanding of cloud networking & connectivity patterns Good understanding of key data tooling such as Kafka, BigTable, DataProc, BigQuery etc It would be great if you also had Network protocols & security Chaos Testing Contract Testing APIGEE Java Spring Boot Kafka Microservices Our focus is to ensure we are 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 are 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.