End Date
Friday 17 June 2022Salary Range
£50,130 - £85,137We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.
Agile Working Options
Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to DiscussionJob Description Summary
As a Software Engineer within the Mortgages team, you'll play a key role in the future developments of our sales journeys across multiple channels - designing, building, testing and deploying software to deliver for our customers and colleagues. You’ll do this using new and innovative technologies whilst also harnessing and maintaining existing systems that are currently the engine room of our platform.Job Description
Mainframe Host Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group, Retail Transformation – Mortgages.
Location: Halifax/Leeds based with hybrid working with 2 days in the office and the rest from home.
Salary & Benefits: £52,912 to £66,140 base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
We offer flexible working hours, to give you a good work life balance, agile working practices and are a very family friendly company.
LBG Labs:
Our mortgage labs are passionate about improving the experience and support of our customers throughout their home purchase journey and the subsequent lifetime of their mortgage whether bought directly from one of our UK wide brands or via an external broker.
Within the mortgages team at Lloyds Banking Group we're committed to broadening access to home ownership, supporting customers during their home owning journey and reducing the carbon emissions from our housing stock.
Alongside this we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our approaches are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.
As a part of our engineering team you would be key to delivering on these commitments by building innovative new mortgage sales journeys on new technologies and simplifying existing processes.
About the role:
As a Software Engineer within the Mortgages team, you'll play a key role in the future developments of our sales journeys across multiple channels - designing, building, testing and deploying software to deliver for our customers and colleagues. You’ll do this using new and innovative technologies whilst also harnessing and maintaining existing systems that are currently the engine room of our platform.
You’ll be part of a cross-disciplinary team, in addition to being a key member of our wider Lloyds engineering team. You will learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from an environment that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.
About You:
As part of one of our cross-disciplinary teams of engineers you'll use your knowledge and expertise in a variety of methodologies and toolsets to develop innovative end user solutions to meet customer needs within their home buying journey.
As such, we’re looking for someone who loves technology and its application to real-world problems. A ‘great teammate’ who can establish relationships and work efficiently with others to help engineer high quality and innovative technical solutions.
You'll also have the opportunity to develop and adopt exciting new technologies and become an active member of Communities of Practice, Engineering guilds and working groups across the bank.
Here's where you'll make a difference:
Alongside others, you'll engineer business requirements into technical solutions to update and improve the customer and colleague experience throughout our home buying experience
You'll bring a dynamism, showing you're an adaptable individual, able to learn and use new skills in varying circumstances
You're curious about new technology and understanding how things work.
You want to continuously improve what we do and how we do it
You'll contribute to a robust team environment
What we need from you:
Experience in software development using the IBM Mainframe COBOL programming language using DB2 and CICS
Experience in using ISPF, JCL, TWS
Experience in using tools – Endevor, MainView, File-Aid, BMC Cat Mgr for DB2
Experience of designing, building components that form part of a complex and multi-tier applications
Good knowledge and experience of SOAP using XML and JSON webservices
Experience of delivering webservices using CICS
Experience in using modern mainframe development tools like Topaz Workbench, IBM Developer for z/OS, VSCode, zOWE, Git
Experience in using service/API testing tools like SOAPUI/Postman
It would be great if you had:
Knowledge of automation tools like Jenkins, UCD
Experience of designing solutions that are configurable, performant and resilient
Experience of working in Banking/Financial Services on Mortgage services/products
Good knowledge of DevOps and ability to implement them on Mainframe platform
Experience working with and directing partners who are based in the UK and offshore to prioritise activities related to analysis, design, build and test software changes.
Here's what you can expect in return:
Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunities.
Are you interested in joining our team? Apply today; we'd love to hear from you!
Together we make it possible!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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.
