End Date
Friday 07 April 2023
Salary Range
£61,176 - £99,411
Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
Location: London, 2 days in the office, the rest from home.
Salary Benefits £71,577 - £79,530 (depending on experience) base salary, plus annual discretionary bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot to use across a range of benefits, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health!
Who are Lloyds Banking Group
We're the UK’s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers and a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We’re in the middle of a £3bn investment into our People, Platforms and Data strategy to build the Bank of the Future and grow sustainably.
About the platform
Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships. Which plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Groups strategic priority to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. We enable & deliver 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 achieving our paper-free sustainable ambitions.
Key Objectives for the Platform
Simplify and modernise our technology estate to enable internal flexibility and increase responsiveness to evolving customer needs.
Improve customer experience and support the Bank’s sustainability ambitions by delivering compelling, reliable, safe paperless communications.
Enable two-way, seamless, multi-channel customer experiences that are differentiated, data-led and personalised - in line with the broader Group Conversational Banking and Channel strategies.
Deliver engaging, empathetic communications that are tailored to individual customer needs and provided via their preferred channel.
About the role
We’re seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer to join our team, you’ll be responsible for designing and developing high throughput applications using java with high quality production ready code to deliver functionality to our customers. You’ll be accountable for ensuring all decisions are made within a sound risk framework and within Group standards and appetite while managing the full software development process within an agile environment.
What you’ll do for us:
Design and develop applications in Java with automated tests to ensure it meets business functionality.
Implement monitoring for applications and analyse health & performance to improve.
Be part of cross-functional product engineering team and adhere engineering standards throughout the SDLC
Pair with other engineers to review the code considering the quality standards agreed to follow in the team.
Making sure code is kept up to date and version controlled within a repository.
Collaborate with other engineers to deliver value to our customers
Collaborate with architects and other senior engineers to produce application/design documentation.
Problem solving/debugging application production issues and minimise customer impact.
Mentor/coach the engineers to deliver high quality applications that are designed for security, testing, maintainability and observability
What can you bring to the role?
Hands on experience in building enterprise rest API in Java and experience with Java frameworks like Hibernate, spring boot, spring core and spring security.
Hands-on experience working with Kafka, including experience with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, and Kafka API.
Experience with TDD practices like automated unit and integration tests and Dev Ops practices like CI/CD
Experience in designing and building high volume distributed event driven systems at scale, fault tolerant, resilience and highly observable
Experience working with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or Apache Kafka.
Good knowledge using modern technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Github actions, Service mesh, and Scalable / NoSQL Databases etc.
Strong experience with Public Cloud Solution, ideally GCP or AWS
Experience working in an agile development environment, including experience with tools such as Jira or Confluence.
Together we make it possible!
We want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. Share your ideas and make them happen and feel supported and listened to by a team that celebrates individuality and independent thought, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided suitable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity.
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.