Software Engineer

Halifax, Yorkshire
LLoyds Banking Group
End Date
Friday 16 June 2023

Salary Range
£52,912 – £85,982

We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

Agile Working Options
Flexible / Variable Hours

Job Description Summary
Working in our exciting Consumer Credit Decisioning Lab, you will lead other Software Engineers and work with our PO team and Risk customers, to design and deploy application and/or data solutions that underpin the financial stability of Lloyds Banking Group.Your technical expertise and insight will ensure the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.

Job Description

As the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial bank we realise that our data is a significant business differentiator and plays a pivotal role in achieving our sustainable growth ambitions.

We’re looking to further adopt sophisticated approaches to how we utilise data to interact with and service our customers backed with a £3bn investment programme.

Within the Enterprise Risk Platform, we are on an exciting journey to transform our Risk Decisioning architecture.We are implementing leading edge technologies to ensure we make better decisions for our customers.

Our team is passionate about building new solutions that transform the customer and colleague experience.

Our culture brings together inquisitive, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.

Location: Halifax West Yorkshire. We work in a hybrid approach with currently two days per week in the office.

The base salary banding for this role is £61,911 – £89,427 – plus benefits outlined below

About our team:

Our engineers are currently working with the latest cloud infrastructure, microservice and dev ops tooling.

We work in one of five Lab Feature Teams.Each of these multi-skilled teams has clear objectives and accountabilities and understand their role in delivering the transformation of Risk Decisioning.

Our engineers also benefit from peer-to-peer learning and mentoring via our Communities of Practice, Engineering Guilds and Working Groups

Together we’ll make it possible

About the role:

Working in our exciting Consumer Credit Decisioning Lab, you will lead other Software Engineers and work with our PO team and Risk customers, to design and deploy application and/or data solutions that underpin the financial stability of Lloyds Banking Group.Your technical expertise and insight will ensure the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.

You ll use a variety of Modern Engineering practices and toolsets to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect.

So, what experience & skills do I need to apply?

It would be essential to have the following:

• Strong application or data development background, ideally with experience of developing solutions in JAVA Springboot.
• Knowledge of modern software development practices – ideally this would include Cloud hosting (GCP), Containers, Kubernetes; API s, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery and Google Cloud Tools such as Big Query
• Proven understanding of the full software development lifecycle
• Experience of working as part of an agile team using agile practices and tooling such as Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, as well as experience in the traditional Fastpath projects

What you’d get in return:

This is a fantastic area of the bank, full of down-to-earth people passionate about engineering and sharing their expertise. As engineering underpins so many important initiatives, it’s a key area to work with huge career potential.

Offering hybrid working patterns (2-3 days in our Halifax hub) we believe that a healthy work/ life balance is as important as the work we deliver, just let us know what might work for you

We’re also passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families. And, being disability positive, reasonable adjustments can be accommodated in our Recruitment process.

We re simply committed to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

You’ll also receive a package that includes:

• Competitive salary with discretionary annual performance bonus
• A Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits (or take as cash)
• Private Medical Insurance and a generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Share plans, including free shares
• 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays on top)

So, if you have a desire to work in an exciting Software Engineer role, then please get in touch we d love to hear from you!

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.