Accenture (Uk) Limited
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skills and next-generation technology to each business challenge click apply for full job details
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skills and next-generation technology to each business challenge click apply for full job details
JOB TITLE: Solution Architect - Innovation and Emerging Tech SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION: Edinburgh, Halifax, Bristol, 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 Welcome to our Emerging Tech & Innovation team. We're creating a future where customers choose Lloyds Banking Group because we regularly launch new products and services that make their financial lives better. This is an outstanding chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and values creation! We're looking for a Solution Architect to be part of a new Engineering Innovation team. This new team will be dynamic, versatile, and adaptive, with a core purpose on research, experimentation and building prototypes, which could be deployed at scale across the organisation. So, what would you be doing for us? This is the exciting bit! As a solution architect, you'll be mainly responsible for the solution architecture required on the technical experiments we run across the team. You'll have proven experience in solution architecture practice, crafting and maintaining technical documentation. As a keen collaborator, you'll work across the innovation team, to ensure product and experiment requirements are translated into technical solution designs, for our team of engineers. You'll also work across the Group's engineering and architecture communities, to ensure all our experiments maintain standards of solution architecture practice, and alignment to strategic technology direction. We're agile, so you'll need to be able to take an iterative approach in your solution designs, breaking down work and prioritising the thinks that release value allowing the rest of the team to progress. Finally, you'll demonstrate continuous personal development, in new & emerging technologies, and will be an active member of the Group's Solution Architecture community, to ensure we're aligned to current practice. Who are we looking for? Do you feel passionate about innovation, emerging technology and how they can be adopted and used for our colleagues and customers? You'll be curious and excited at the prospect of stepping into the unknown whilst getting to the bottom of how things work and defining how we can implement them safely. You'll have a developed communication toolkit, allowing you to skillfully collaborate across the innovation team and with wider teams in LBG and beyond. Being a confident facilitator, analytical thinker and problem solver, you'll challenge conventional ways of thinking, influencing positive outcomes. You'll be adaptable, able to learn and use new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances; you're comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership. Working on experiments and prototypes, you're the sort of person who sees the bigger picture and can join the dots to understand the implications of our work, if we were to deploy at scale. 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 Fully conversant with solution architecture practice, patterns. Able to design complex solutions spanning different technologies, taking ownership for end to end technical designs. Experience working across a range of modern solution architectures, including N-tier, cloud platforms (with focus on GCP and Azure), container and micro-services. Technology cost estimation. Practical experience crafting technical and architecture documentation. Visual presentation: ability to communicate technical solutions in formats to both technical and non-technical audiences. 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.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Solution Architect - Innovation and Emerging Tech SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION: Edinburgh, Halifax, Bristol, 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 Welcome to our Emerging Tech & Innovation team. We're creating a future where customers choose Lloyds Banking Group because we regularly launch new products and services that make their financial lives better. This is an outstanding chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and values creation! We're looking for a Solution Architect to be part of a new Engineering Innovation team. This new team will be dynamic, versatile, and adaptive, with a core purpose on research, experimentation and building prototypes, which could be deployed at scale across the organisation. So, what would you be doing for us? This is the exciting bit! As a solution architect, you'll be mainly responsible for the solution architecture required on the technical experiments we run across the team. You'll have proven experience in solution architecture practice, crafting and maintaining technical documentation. As a keen collaborator, you'll work across the innovation team, to ensure product and experiment requirements are translated into technical solution designs, for our team of engineers. You'll also work across the Group's engineering and architecture communities, to ensure all our experiments maintain standards of solution architecture practice, and alignment to strategic technology direction. We're agile, so you'll need to be able to take an iterative approach in your solution designs, breaking down work and prioritising the thinks that release value allowing the rest of the team to progress. Finally, you'll demonstrate continuous personal development, in new & emerging technologies, and will be an active member of the Group's Solution Architecture community, to ensure we're aligned to current practice. Who are we looking for? Do you feel passionate about innovation, emerging technology and how they can be adopted and used for our colleagues and customers? You'll be curious and excited at the prospect of stepping into the unknown whilst getting to the bottom of how things work and defining how we can implement them safely. You'll have a developed communication toolkit, allowing you to skillfully collaborate across the innovation team and with wider teams in LBG and beyond. Being a confident facilitator, analytical thinker and problem solver, you'll challenge conventional ways of thinking, influencing positive outcomes. You'll be adaptable, able to learn and use new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances; you're comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership. Working on experiments and prototypes, you're the sort of person who sees the bigger picture and can join the dots to understand the implications of our work, if we were to deploy at scale. 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 Fully conversant with solution architecture practice, patterns. Able to design complex solutions spanning different technologies, taking ownership for end to end technical designs. Experience working across a range of modern solution architectures, including N-tier, cloud platforms (with focus on GCP and Azure), container and micro-services. Technology cost estimation. Practical experience crafting technical and architecture documentation. Visual presentation: ability to communicate technical solutions in formats to both technical and non-technical audiences. 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.
Solution Architect - Payment Services Platform SALARY: £66,202 - £83,719 LOCATION: Edinburgh or London HOURS: Full Time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Edinburgh Office (EH11) Are you an experienced Solution Architect looking for an amazing career opportunity to help shape the future of New Payments Architecture, using cutting edge technology, cloud hosting, SaaS services and building a new greenfield payments platform, helping us navigate the regulatory landscape and define our products of the future? About this opportunity We're looking for Solution Architect to join our New Payments Architecture (NPA) Lab. NPA is a regulatory initiative that will change UK payments as we know them. Working closely with industry, the NPA team is replacing the complexity of the existing payments landscape with a new, more efficient infrastructure that will benefit from enhanced security and resilience. This multi-million-pound initiative has a new partnership with a leading FinTech company and is looking for talented individuals who are interested in working with new and exciting technologies, such as Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS). What we're looking for: Strong Software Architecture background and knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production You appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ) Exposure to modern application frameworks (Spring boot Java etc) Exposure to Open Banking architecture framework We'd welcome the following desirable skills and experience: Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production Exposure to Systems Thinking Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g., Kubernetes Knowledge in one or more of the following: API Economy; Big Data; Cloud/Open Source; Automation/Robotics; Blockchain An understanding of any of the following Payments areas: UK Domestic Payments (Cheques, Faster Payments, BACS); International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA); Trade Legal, Regulatory & Mandatory projects in Payments areas New Payments Architecture Why Lloyds Banking Group? 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. 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: Any 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?
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Solution Architect - Payment Services Platform SALARY: £66,202 - £83,719 LOCATION: Edinburgh or London HOURS: Full Time WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our Edinburgh Office (EH11) Are you an experienced Solution Architect looking for an amazing career opportunity to help shape the future of New Payments Architecture, using cutting edge technology, cloud hosting, SaaS services and building a new greenfield payments platform, helping us navigate the regulatory landscape and define our products of the future? About this opportunity We're looking for Solution Architect to join our New Payments Architecture (NPA) Lab. NPA is a regulatory initiative that will change UK payments as we know them. Working closely with industry, the NPA team is replacing the complexity of the existing payments landscape with a new, more efficient infrastructure that will benefit from enhanced security and resilience. This multi-million-pound initiative has a new partnership with a leading FinTech company and is looking for talented individuals who are interested in working with new and exciting technologies, such as Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS). What we're looking for: Strong Software Architecture background and knowledge of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production You appreciate and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ) Exposure to modern application frameworks (Spring boot Java etc) Exposure to Open Banking architecture framework We'd welcome the following desirable skills and experience: Knowledge of delivery of microservices to production Exposure to Systems Thinking Exposure to Docker and container orchestration tools e.g., Kubernetes Knowledge in one or more of the following: API Economy; Big Data; Cloud/Open Source; Automation/Robotics; Blockchain An understanding of any of the following Payments areas: UK Domestic Payments (Cheques, Faster Payments, BACS); International Payments (SWIFT/SEPA); Trade Legal, Regulatory & Mandatory projects in Payments areas New Payments Architecture Why Lloyds Banking Group? 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. 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: Any 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?
Cedar are supporting a Public Sector client who are looking to hire a permanent Head of Procurement Operations & Enablement. This is a permanent job opportunity offering a salary ranged between £70,000 up to £86,000 per annum plus a range of benefits. The role will operate on a hybrid working basis with the expectation to be on-site, in Central London, 2 days per week. Reporting into the Assistant Procurement Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for: transforming purchasing operations, data and systems controls, management, operational and compliance reporting and the recruitment, resourcing and continuous people development of the team to deliver a high standard of end user support; developing and delivering an agile self-serve, enablement strategy for end users, driven by data and facilitated by purpose-built service management and financial tools (ERP and otherwise), and being the ultimate process owner for P2P systems and the ongoing architecture therein; oversight and delivery of the annual people strategy and enablement channels; improving access and availability to meaningful compliance, operational and management reports to facilitate fast and informed decision making across all levels of Stakeholders; partnering with leaders from across the organisation to better anticipate change through a procurement-managed project pipeline to aid the building of resilient sourcing plans in each Category area; reducing complexity, delay, and unnecessary touchpoints in the sourcing lifecycle to improve the public tendering function thus enabling a swift, secure, and compliant end-to-end tender process for the category teams and stakeholders. leading a dynamic and ambitious team of procurement professionals in the day-to-day delivery and continuous improvement of the enablement service; the provision of expert advice to stakeholders on Procurement Operations metrics, warnings, and trends for areas of continuous improvement. Candidate applying MUST HAVE: c10 years experience working in Procurement along with c5 years experience managing a high-performing procurement operations team hands on knowledge and experience building and running a procurement service desk, with measurable service levels, using i.e. ServiceNow, Marval or equivalent platforms hands on knowledge and experience running a P2P function in the Public Sector or a matrixed enterprise using a leading ERP system i.e. SAP, Oracle, Coupa etc. experience developing and leading ERP platform changes strong knowledge of Public Sector procurement procedures and regulations CIPS certification or membership is preferred, MCIPS qualification would be desirable
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Cedar are supporting a Public Sector client who are looking to hire a permanent Head of Procurement Operations & Enablement. This is a permanent job opportunity offering a salary ranged between £70,000 up to £86,000 per annum plus a range of benefits. The role will operate on a hybrid working basis with the expectation to be on-site, in Central London, 2 days per week. Reporting into the Assistant Procurement Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for: transforming purchasing operations, data and systems controls, management, operational and compliance reporting and the recruitment, resourcing and continuous people development of the team to deliver a high standard of end user support; developing and delivering an agile self-serve, enablement strategy for end users, driven by data and facilitated by purpose-built service management and financial tools (ERP and otherwise), and being the ultimate process owner for P2P systems and the ongoing architecture therein; oversight and delivery of the annual people strategy and enablement channels; improving access and availability to meaningful compliance, operational and management reports to facilitate fast and informed decision making across all levels of Stakeholders; partnering with leaders from across the organisation to better anticipate change through a procurement-managed project pipeline to aid the building of resilient sourcing plans in each Category area; reducing complexity, delay, and unnecessary touchpoints in the sourcing lifecycle to improve the public tendering function thus enabling a swift, secure, and compliant end-to-end tender process for the category teams and stakeholders. leading a dynamic and ambitious team of procurement professionals in the day-to-day delivery and continuous improvement of the enablement service; the provision of expert advice to stakeholders on Procurement Operations metrics, warnings, and trends for areas of continuous improvement. Candidate applying MUST HAVE: c10 years experience working in Procurement along with c5 years experience managing a high-performing procurement operations team hands on knowledge and experience building and running a procurement service desk, with measurable service levels, using i.e. ServiceNow, Marval or equivalent platforms hands on knowledge and experience running a P2P function in the Public Sector or a matrixed enterprise using a leading ERP system i.e. SAP, Oracle, Coupa etc. experience developing and leading ERP platform changes strong knowledge of Public Sector procurement procedures and regulations CIPS certification or membership is preferred, MCIPS qualification would be desirable
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer Team Manager SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310 LOCATION: 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 Edinburgh location. About this opportunity Come join LBG's Protection Platform, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team - come make us even better. You're a software engineer team lead with experience in Enterprise JavaScript, both front and back-end. You can rapidly assimilate domain knowledge and apply this in a sophisticated technical environment. You can productively collaborate. You manage people, supporting and growing their careers. You build teams that always deliver. About 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. What you'll need You will be expected to spend up to half your time managing colleagues. Hence a passion for encouraging, mentoring & motivating those around you is essential. Technically, you must have proven experience leading Software Engineers in: Enterprise JavaScript/Typescript - React.js and Node.js Automated testing Microservices using OpenAPI and Kubernetes And any experience of these would be really useful Nest.js Enterprise integrations and infrastructure Build and deployment technologies for private and public cloud 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.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer Team Manager SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310 LOCATION: 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 Edinburgh location. About this opportunity Come join LBG's Protection Platform, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team - come make us even better. You're a software engineer team lead with experience in Enterprise JavaScript, both front and back-end. You can rapidly assimilate domain knowledge and apply this in a sophisticated technical environment. You can productively collaborate. You manage people, supporting and growing their careers. You build teams that always deliver. About 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. What you'll need You will be expected to spend up to half your time managing colleagues. Hence a passion for encouraging, mentoring & motivating those around you is essential. Technically, you must have proven experience leading Software Engineers in: Enterprise JavaScript/Typescript - React.js and Node.js Automated testing Microservices using OpenAPI and Kubernetes And any experience of these would be really useful Nest.js Enterprise integrations and infrastructure Build and deployment technologies for private and public cloud 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.
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (Innovation & Emerging Tech Team) 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 sits in our Innovation and Emerging Tech team. We want to build a future where customers choose Lloyds because we regularly launch new products and services that make their financial lives better. This is a unique chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and values creation! We're looking for 'full-stack' Software Engineers to be part of a new Engineering Innovation team. This new team will be dynamic, versatile and adaptive, with a core purpose on research, experimentation and building prototypes, that could be deployed at scale across the organisation. So, what would you be doing for us? The exciting bit! As a software engineer in the team, you'll be primarily responsible for the design, build and test of engineering innovation experiments. You'll be directly responsible for writing and maintaining code base, and as such you'll have deep expertise in modern 'full-stack' programming languages and technologies. You'll also demonstrate continuous personal development in new & emerging programming languages and technologies. You'll be conversant in Quality Engineering (QE) and DevOps processes and technologies. As well as DBT and code execution, you'll also be responsible for crafting and maintaining appropriate user documentation. You'll collaborate closely with internal partners across the Group's engineering and architecture communities, ensuring all our experiments maintain standards of engineering excellence and alignment to strategic technology direction. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model. 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 A deep working experience across a range of 'full-stack' programming languages. It is not expected that you'll have all the technical skills listed below. However, you should be able to demonstrate you possess a range of these, at a proficient level: Front-end, e.g., Javascript/JS Frameworks, HTML/CSS Mid-tier, e.g., API, ReST, Web Server, SSO, IAM Server-side & database, e.g., Java, C#, GoLang, Node.JS, Python, SQL Server, Cockroach, MongoDB Mobile, e.g., Swift, Android Core cloud platforms, e.g., Google, Azure, AWS DevOps & CICD, e.g., Jenkins, Urban Code, Atlassian, GitHub, MS Team Foundation Server, SonarQube, Kubernetes And any experience of these would be really useful Practical knowledge on software development processes Engineering experience working within an Agile framework Systems design thinking and solution architecture Practical experience crafting technical documentation Collaboration; working effectively alongside engineering teams, technical specialists, product owners, vendors and partners. You can hold productive communications to ensure experiments are clearly scoped and implemented 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.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (Innovation & Emerging Tech Team) 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 sits in our Innovation and Emerging Tech team. We want to build a future where customers choose Lloyds because we regularly launch new products and services that make their financial lives better. This is a unique chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and values creation! We're looking for 'full-stack' Software Engineers to be part of a new Engineering Innovation team. This new team will be dynamic, versatile and adaptive, with a core purpose on research, experimentation and building prototypes, that could be deployed at scale across the organisation. So, what would you be doing for us? The exciting bit! As a software engineer in the team, you'll be primarily responsible for the design, build and test of engineering innovation experiments. You'll be directly responsible for writing and maintaining code base, and as such you'll have deep expertise in modern 'full-stack' programming languages and technologies. You'll also demonstrate continuous personal development in new & emerging programming languages and technologies. You'll be conversant in Quality Engineering (QE) and DevOps processes and technologies. As well as DBT and code execution, you'll also be responsible for crafting and maintaining appropriate user documentation. You'll collaborate closely with internal partners across the Group's engineering and architecture communities, ensuring all our experiments maintain standards of engineering excellence and alignment to strategic technology direction. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model. 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 A deep working experience across a range of 'full-stack' programming languages. It is not expected that you'll have all the technical skills listed below. However, you should be able to demonstrate you possess a range of these, at a proficient level: Front-end, e.g., Javascript/JS Frameworks, HTML/CSS Mid-tier, e.g., API, ReST, Web Server, SSO, IAM Server-side & database, e.g., Java, C#, GoLang, Node.JS, Python, SQL Server, Cockroach, MongoDB Mobile, e.g., Swift, Android Core cloud platforms, e.g., Google, Azure, AWS DevOps & CICD, e.g., Jenkins, Urban Code, Atlassian, GitHub, MS Team Foundation Server, SonarQube, Kubernetes And any experience of these would be really useful Practical knowledge on software development processes Engineering experience working within an Agile framework Systems design thinking and solution architecture Practical experience crafting technical documentation Collaboration; working effectively alongside engineering teams, technical specialists, product owners, vendors and partners. You can hold productive communications to ensure experiments are clearly scoped and implemented 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.
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.
Apr 18, 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.
Data Security Engineer - Data Resilience Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. About the Role As the Data Resilience Security Engineer, you'll focus on Data Security; assuring the group safeguards data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role reports into the Data Resilience Technical Lead and requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented approach to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: The primary security contact for data resilience queries. Provide input and direction on security assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop security initiatives and guidance for Operational Resilience, Chief Security Office and change frameworks. Oversee the development of security controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Support and grow team members in security domains of data resilience. Present data resilience security gaps to peers and senior collaborators What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We'll need to see evidence of the following in your CV; Prior experience working at mid to senior level within a relevant role. Experience of security scanning and testing, including Qualys, Ethical Hacking, SAST & DAST Experience of vulnerability management (CVSS) Hands on experience of modern security architecture along with diagnostic and monitoring tooling. Proficient in Cryptographic key management and encryption deployments. Knowledge of ISO 27001/27002, NIST and/or CIS Experience of working with SIEM tooling (Splunk) or similar Knowledge of Endpoint Detection and Response tooling (SentinelOne) Knowledge of zero trust security for applications Good experience in Identity and Access Management Knowledge of Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, CentOS, Unix, Ubuntu and Solaris) Familiar with analytic platforms and databases such as MSSQL, Kafka, S3, etc Experience of ransomware attack techniques and mitigation strategies. Exposure to security concepts (MITRE, Kill-Chain) Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with stakeholders. Its great if you have: Public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) experience Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. Technical knowledge of FCA, PRA, EBA guidelines on operational resilience. CISSP/CSSP/CISM or equivalent experience. Experience in Financial Services is a nice to have but not mandatory. About working for us. 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. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Data Security Engineer - Data Resilience Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. About the Role As the Data Resilience Security Engineer, you'll focus on Data Security; assuring the group safeguards data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role reports into the Data Resilience Technical Lead and requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented approach to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: The primary security contact for data resilience queries. Provide input and direction on security assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop security initiatives and guidance for Operational Resilience, Chief Security Office and change frameworks. Oversee the development of security controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Support and grow team members in security domains of data resilience. Present data resilience security gaps to peers and senior collaborators What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We'll need to see evidence of the following in your CV; Prior experience working at mid to senior level within a relevant role. Experience of security scanning and testing, including Qualys, Ethical Hacking, SAST & DAST Experience of vulnerability management (CVSS) Hands on experience of modern security architecture along with diagnostic and monitoring tooling. Proficient in Cryptographic key management and encryption deployments. Knowledge of ISO 27001/27002, NIST and/or CIS Experience of working with SIEM tooling (Splunk) or similar Knowledge of Endpoint Detection and Response tooling (SentinelOne) Knowledge of zero trust security for applications Good experience in Identity and Access Management Knowledge of Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, CentOS, Unix, Ubuntu and Solaris) Familiar with analytic platforms and databases such as MSSQL, Kafka, S3, etc Experience of ransomware attack techniques and mitigation strategies. Exposure to security concepts (MITRE, Kill-Chain) Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with stakeholders. Its great if you have: Public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) experience Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. Technical knowledge of FCA, PRA, EBA guidelines on operational resilience. CISSP/CSSP/CISM or equivalent experience. Experience in Financial Services is a nice to have but not mandatory. About working for us. 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. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
SALARY: £100,657.00 - £118,420.00 annual base salary + excellent rewards package LOCATION: London HOURS: Full Time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London Wall site. ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY We're looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our Domestic Lab. We're responsible for over 4bn UK electronic Payments including Faster Payments, Cheque Clearing, BACS, Cash distribution and more. Our team works in close collaboration with industry groups and regulators to protect the UK, the Bank and our Customers. We sit in the Payments Services Platform provides compliant, efficient and innovative payments capabilities for the Group to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely. We are a supportive and diverse community where we're passionate about collaboration and growing together. In joining us you'll focus on the following: Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Lab & Platform teams. Partnering with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies. Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs Develops innovative solutions by integrating and analysing complex and diverse information sources, making authoritative technical and/or professional recommendations that have a significant short-term and long-term impact on the business Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and/or supervises activities performed by a product development/specialist team. WHAT YOU'LL NEED Strong Software Architecture background and experience of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production You understand and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability Knowledge of Payments System Architecture such as Faster Payments, BACS, Cash Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ) Exposure to modern application frameworks (Spring boot Java etc) Experience of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working-to-strong understanding of cloud methodologies Experience of risk, infrastructure, resilience and security architecture practices and concerns Active involvement in architecture and design governance And the following would be really useful Exposure to Systems Thinking 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!
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
SALARY: £100,657.00 - £118,420.00 annual base salary + excellent rewards package LOCATION: London HOURS: Full Time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London Wall site. ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY We're looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join our Domestic Lab. We're responsible for over 4bn UK electronic Payments including Faster Payments, Cheque Clearing, BACS, Cash distribution and more. Our team works in close collaboration with industry groups and regulators to protect the UK, the Bank and our Customers. We sit in the Payments Services Platform provides compliant, efficient and innovative payments capabilities for the Group to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely. We are a supportive and diverse community where we're passionate about collaboration and growing together. In joining us you'll focus on the following: Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Lab & Platform teams. Partnering with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies. Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs Develops innovative solutions by integrating and analysing complex and diverse information sources, making authoritative technical and/or professional recommendations that have a significant short-term and long-term impact on the business Analyses and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and/or supervises activities performed by a product development/specialist team. WHAT YOU'LL NEED Strong Software Architecture background and experience of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production You understand and acknowledge the impact of system design decisions on scalability, resilience, and supportability Knowledge of Payments System Architecture such as Faster Payments, BACS, Cash Experience of API design and architecture patterns, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ) Exposure to modern application frameworks (Spring boot Java etc) Experience of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working-to-strong understanding of cloud methodologies Experience of risk, infrastructure, resilience and security architecture practices and concerns Active involvement in architecture and design governance And the following would be really useful Exposure to Systems Thinking 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!
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Salary: £66,861 -£74,290 Location: Manchester Hours: (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 .
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Salary: £66,861 -£74,290 Location: Manchester Hours: (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 .
JOB TITLE: Azure Cloud Engineer Lead SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310 for outside London and £100,657 - £118,420 LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh & London 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: The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Azure Engineering team within the Cloud Native engineering Lab. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK. We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our Azure platform. The ideal candidate will have experience in software engineering and architecture, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll have worked hands-on and broadly with Azure technologies and bring T-shaped expertise in a particular field such as Kubernetes, Networking, API, Databases, Virtual Machines or Serverless. 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? You'll lead or contribute to the architectural design of cloud platform technologies and products across our ecosystem. You'll be able to get hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis - leading by example. Be proficient in leading technical conversations with stakeholders of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering cloud engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling Be an SME in a particular aspect of cloud engineering or product category. 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 you'll need: SME/Advanced skills in at least one of: Azure Kubernetes Service & Istio, Azure Networking, Azure Databases, Azure API Management, Azure Native VM technologies, Azure Virtualisation Service (certifications desirable). Strong experience of security configuration management via guardrails (Org Policy, Azure Policy, OPA) Strong experience of writing and contributing Terraform/ARM/Bicep to curate cloud infrastructure for enterprise Great understanding of Cloud Native engineering principles and experience of delivering systems based on them. Experience of building DevSecOps approach to infrastructure as code and application CI/CD Understanding of cloud security best practises and principles for enterprise Usage of enterprise Secret Management solutions including Azure Key Vault and Hashicorp Vault Appreciation of network security fundamentals - WAF/WAP/Firewalls and ingress/egress patterns Experience of Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps or Harness.io (desirable) 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.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Azure Cloud Engineer Lead SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310 for outside London and £100,657 - £118,420 LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh & London 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: The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our Azure Engineering team within the Cloud Native engineering Lab. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK. We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our Azure platform. The ideal candidate will have experience in software engineering and architecture, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll have worked hands-on and broadly with Azure technologies and bring T-shaped expertise in a particular field such as Kubernetes, Networking, API, Databases, Virtual Machines or Serverless. 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? You'll lead or contribute to the architectural design of cloud platform technologies and products across our ecosystem. You'll be able to get hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis - leading by example. Be proficient in leading technical conversations with stakeholders of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering cloud engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling Be an SME in a particular aspect of cloud engineering or product category. 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 you'll need: SME/Advanced skills in at least one of: Azure Kubernetes Service & Istio, Azure Networking, Azure Databases, Azure API Management, Azure Native VM technologies, Azure Virtualisation Service (certifications desirable). Strong experience of security configuration management via guardrails (Org Policy, Azure Policy, OPA) Strong experience of writing and contributing Terraform/ARM/Bicep to curate cloud infrastructure for enterprise Great understanding of Cloud Native engineering principles and experience of delivering systems based on them. Experience of building DevSecOps approach to infrastructure as code and application CI/CD Understanding of cloud security best practises and principles for enterprise Usage of enterprise Secret Management solutions including Azure Key Vault and Hashicorp Vault Appreciation of network security fundamentals - WAF/WAP/Firewalls and ingress/egress patterns Experience of Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps or Harness.io (desirable) 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.
Database Engineer - Data Resilience Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us: Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of innovative financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Background: Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services. The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this: Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group's ability to maintain service within ITOL. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you'll focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, handled, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented approach to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV; Career experience working as a Senior Database Administrator, including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. 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. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Database Engineer - Data Resilience Lloyds Banking Group London - hybrid working two days per week in the office & rest from home. Salary & Benefits: £78,849 to £96,371 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us: Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of innovative financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. The Data Resilience team is a new chapter within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. We have the responsibility to facilitate the identification, end-to end data flow mapping, and assessment of IBS critical technical assets to establish the Data Resilience position and proactively mitigate Group exposure to data loss or corruption events. Background: Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group's Important Business Services. The Data Resilience team have 3 main objectives to achieve this: Identify & define assets that are critical to the delivery of Important Business Services. Map the end-to-end data flow of critical assets from source to consumer of each Important Business Service Assess resilience maturity of critical assets to identify gaps that could impact the Group's ability to maintain service within ITOL. About the Role As the Data Resilience Data Engineer, you'll focus on ensuring IBS critical data is stored, handled, and processed effectively to maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity and fulfil the Group's Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires ambitious individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented approach to deliver at pace. Key Responsibilities: Be the technical data reliability point of contact for data resilience. Provide input and direction on database resilience assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached. Develop database optimisation initiatives to drive improvement and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks. Oversee the development of database controls and collaborate with platform teams and Chief Security Office to remediate security gaps. Embed proactive database hygiene, including ROT data, compression rates, effective maintenance plans and compaction & reorganisation across IBS critical applications. Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for databases is accurately maintained. Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures. Review backup and recovery procedures for IBS critical databases Support and grow team members in database domains of data resilience. Present data resilience database gaps to peers and senior stakeholders. What we're looking for; We'd welcome applicants from diverse cultural and technological backgrounds, however financial services exposure will be important for this position. We will need to see evidence of the following in your CV; Career experience working as a Senior Database Administrator, including Oracle, MS SQL, (DB2 and IMS desirable) Knowledge of traditional Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, F5) Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts, including Systems of Record, Engagement and Insight strategies Experience in database management and optimisation, i.e. reorganisation and rebuild. Strong knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures Experience of incident response (triage, classification, investigation, and escalation) Proficient in database encryption at rest, in transit and in memory Financial Services experience and exposure to some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys. Solid verbal and written communication skills to discuss and describe the target architecture with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Its great if you have: Knowledge of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL), Disaster Recovery or back-up and restore domains. Public cloud data management experience including Databricks, MongoDB, CockcroachDB, GCP Dataproc, BigQuery. Experience in Data Mesh Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and Warehouse (EDW) Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity. About working for us. 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. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more
Job title: Cloud Engineer Location: UK Wide. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Salary: Up to £40-45K - Depending on experience and skills What you'll be doing: The Cloud Engineer is an experienced professional with in-depth knowledge who serves as a subject matter expert (SME) in cloud technologies. They will also possess in-depth knowledge and experience in working with on premise infrastructure Interpreting internal and external issues, recommending solutions and best practices, and taking a broad perspective to identify complex problem-solving approaches Occasionally act as a lead on projects, serve as a resource for best practices and quality, and occasionally provide training and mentorship to junior staff and are accountable for their performance and results Work independently and rarely seek guidance in complex circumstances and also act as an escalation point from junior colleagues Ensuring the cloud platforms are secure to BAE standards and liaise with other cyber security parties to ensure safety to the business Your skills and experiences: Essential: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience) Extensive experience in cloud engineering and architecture, with a proven track record of delivering successful cloud solutions Relevant certifications in cloud technologies achieved to an advanced level and service management (e.g. Azure Administrator Associate, ITIL etc.) would be advantageous Desirable: Advanced understanding of containerisation technologies and orchestration platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) Advanced knowledge of monitoring and logging tools used in cloud environments Advanced understanding of DevOps methodologies and toolsets M365 knowledge would be a distinct advantage Benefits: You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. The Azure Operations Team: You will be joining an expansion to an existing Azure operations team, supporting additional requirements that sits within Enterprise IT, providing enterprise IT services across the UK businesses and internationally. You will participate in the creation of security solutions to provide enterprise security services, and maintain, develop, and communicate their associated roadmaps and standards through the full lifecycle of the service. This could also offer a natural progression route and the opportunity to develop further. Why BAE Systems? This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer. Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation. Closing Date: 11th April 2024 We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Job title: Cloud Engineer Location: UK Wide. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Salary: Up to £40-45K - Depending on experience and skills What you'll be doing: The Cloud Engineer is an experienced professional with in-depth knowledge who serves as a subject matter expert (SME) in cloud technologies. They will also possess in-depth knowledge and experience in working with on premise infrastructure Interpreting internal and external issues, recommending solutions and best practices, and taking a broad perspective to identify complex problem-solving approaches Occasionally act as a lead on projects, serve as a resource for best practices and quality, and occasionally provide training and mentorship to junior staff and are accountable for their performance and results Work independently and rarely seek guidance in complex circumstances and also act as an escalation point from junior colleagues Ensuring the cloud platforms are secure to BAE standards and liaise with other cyber security parties to ensure safety to the business Your skills and experiences: Essential: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience) Extensive experience in cloud engineering and architecture, with a proven track record of delivering successful cloud solutions Relevant certifications in cloud technologies achieved to an advanced level and service management (e.g. Azure Administrator Associate, ITIL etc.) would be advantageous Desirable: Advanced understanding of containerisation technologies and orchestration platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) Advanced knowledge of monitoring and logging tools used in cloud environments Advanced understanding of DevOps methodologies and toolsets M365 knowledge would be a distinct advantage Benefits: You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. The Azure Operations Team: You will be joining an expansion to an existing Azure operations team, supporting additional requirements that sits within Enterprise IT, providing enterprise IT services across the UK businesses and internationally. You will participate in the creation of security solutions to provide enterprise security services, and maintain, develop, and communicate their associated roadmaps and standards through the full lifecycle of the service. This could also offer a natural progression route and the opportunity to develop further. Why BAE Systems? This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer. Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation. Closing Date: 11th April 2024 We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
JOB TITLE: Solutions Architect SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION: Edinburgh or Leeds HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity: We recognise our tremendous potential in helping Britain prosper. To do this, we need to unlock the great power in our data - which is where you come in. We are looking for an Architect with excellent skills to help to shape and define our solution landscape across the Insurance, Pensions and Investments business. We are building contemporary, services-driven architecture which creates opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals. We need to simplify and redefine our technology and data landscape. And we need to deliver a set of flexible, future-focused core platform capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future. You will work directly with the Technology and Business Team inside in our Colleague lab to shape and help to define the Target Solution Architecture for Contact Centre of the Future - working across our digital estate to deliver a modern, AI-driven colleague and customer experience. You will act as technology evangelist, bringing to bear your experience and your enthusiasm to help build the modern technology-led organisation. 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 you'll need Story-telling skills to describe our Target Architecture and get real buy-in to achieve it. The personality and relationship-building skills to energise our product and engineering communities The practical experience required to define the technology patterns, standards and practices we will use to guide our organisation The knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs And any experience of these would be really useful Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building out contemporary cloud-ready and cloud-native platforms. Understanding of Telephony and Contact Centre solutions - note that this does not require expertise in telephony infrastructure - purely the agent/colleague application technologies Understanding of domain driven design architectures - understanding where these are applicable and supporting practical steps towards asynchronous, events-based ways of working in this context A working knowledge of contemporary engineering 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. 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.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Solutions Architect SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION: Edinburgh or Leeds HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity: We recognise our tremendous potential in helping Britain prosper. To do this, we need to unlock the great power in our data - which is where you come in. We are looking for an Architect with excellent skills to help to shape and define our solution landscape across the Insurance, Pensions and Investments business. We are building contemporary, services-driven architecture which creates opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals. We need to simplify and redefine our technology and data landscape. And we need to deliver a set of flexible, future-focused core platform capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future. You will work directly with the Technology and Business Team inside in our Colleague lab to shape and help to define the Target Solution Architecture for Contact Centre of the Future - working across our digital estate to deliver a modern, AI-driven colleague and customer experience. You will act as technology evangelist, bringing to bear your experience and your enthusiasm to help build the modern technology-led organisation. 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 you'll need Story-telling skills to describe our Target Architecture and get real buy-in to achieve it. The personality and relationship-building skills to energise our product and engineering communities The practical experience required to define the technology patterns, standards and practices we will use to guide our organisation The knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs And any experience of these would be really useful Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building out contemporary cloud-ready and cloud-native platforms. Understanding of Telephony and Contact Centre solutions - note that this does not require expertise in telephony infrastructure - purely the agent/colleague application technologies Understanding of domain driven design architectures - understanding where these are applicable and supporting practical steps towards asynchronous, events-based ways of working in this context A working knowledge of contemporary engineering 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. 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.
JOB TITLE: Solutions Architect SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION: Edinburgh or Leeds HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity: We recognise our tremendous potential in helping Britain prosper. To do this, we need to unlock the great power in our data - which is where you come in. We are looking for an Architect with excellent skills to help to shape and define our solution landscape across the Insurance, Pensions and Investments business. We are building contemporary, services-driven architecture which creates opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals. We need to simplify and redefine our technology and data landscape. And we need to deliver a set of flexible, future-focused core platform capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future. You will work directly with the Technology and Business Team inside in our Colleague lab to shape and help to define the Target Solution Architecture for Contact Centre of the Future - working across our digital estate to deliver a modern, AI-driven colleague and customer experience. You will act as technology evangelist, bringing to bear your experience and your enthusiasm to help build the modern technology-led organisation. 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 you'll need Story-telling skills to describe our Target Architecture and get real buy-in to achieve it. The personality and relationship-building skills to energise our product and engineering communities The practical experience required to define the technology patterns, standards and practices we will use to guide our organisation The knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs And any experience of these would be really useful Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building out contemporary cloud-ready and cloud-native platforms. Understanding of Telephony and Contact Centre solutions - note that this does not require expertise in telephony infrastructure - purely the agent/colleague application technologies Understanding of domain driven design architectures - understanding where these are applicable and supporting practical steps towards asynchronous, events-based ways of working in this context A working knowledge of contemporary engineering 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. 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.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
JOB TITLE: Solutions Architect SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION: Edinburgh or Leeds HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity: We recognise our tremendous potential in helping Britain prosper. To do this, we need to unlock the great power in our data - which is where you come in. We are looking for an Architect with excellent skills to help to shape and define our solution landscape across the Insurance, Pensions and Investments business. We are building contemporary, services-driven architecture which creates opportunities to digitise & deliver excellent customer journeys, business outcomes and meets group strategic goals. We need to simplify and redefine our technology and data landscape. And we need to deliver a set of flexible, future-focused core platform capabilities to the benefit of all our customers. You can help shape this future. You will work directly with the Technology and Business Team inside in our Colleague lab to shape and help to define the Target Solution Architecture for Contact Centre of the Future - working across our digital estate to deliver a modern, AI-driven colleague and customer experience. You will act as technology evangelist, bringing to bear your experience and your enthusiasm to help build the modern technology-led organisation. 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 you'll need Story-telling skills to describe our Target Architecture and get real buy-in to achieve it. The personality and relationship-building skills to energise our product and engineering communities The practical experience required to define the technology patterns, standards and practices we will use to guide our organisation The knowledge to be able to talk to and understand our customers, reaching solutions that meet their needs And any experience of these would be really useful Practical experience of designing and building cloud-based platforms at scale. You will know and understand the benefits and trade-offs of the various approaches to building out contemporary cloud-ready and cloud-native platforms. Understanding of Telephony and Contact Centre solutions - note that this does not require expertise in telephony infrastructure - purely the agent/colleague application technologies Understanding of domain driven design architectures - understanding where these are applicable and supporting practical steps towards asynchronous, events-based ways of working in this context A working knowledge of contemporary engineering 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. 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.
Senior Solution Architect Our team of Senior Solutions Architects are the champions of innovation, tackling complex challenges that directly impact society's most vulnerable. Join us in shaping the future of digital services at DWP, where your expertise will drive meaningful change and empower our users like never before. Pay £52,412 to £70,000, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions worth over £17,000. Hybrid working, and great work life balance. Includes flexi-time with up 3 extra flex-days off a month. Location Your choice of Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Hybrid hub / home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. DWP is the UK's largest government department that helps people into work and makes payments worth over £195bn a year to support millions of daily users. We're transforming mission-critical payment services, and delivering £250 billion payments per year to the most vulnerable people in society. Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and ground-breaking technologies to create innovative, scalable, and user-centric digital solutions that are changing how government works, how people interact with us, and we make payments. We are looking for motivated, purpose-driven Solutions Architects like you to take on the challenge of solving complex problems that will improve outcomes for the most vulnerable citizens in our society. Designing World-Class Products You'll be working with our Benefits Payments Systems team. The BPS project delivers essential services to DWP customers. It's a big ticket. The systems we work on pay £1.4 billion in working age benefits, disability benefits, and pension benefits each year. As part of a small team of Architects, you'll collaborate closely with Testers, Engineers, Project Managers, and a larger BPS team comprising over 200 members, improving payments on major benefits like Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). As Senior Solution Architect, we'll look to your expertise to deliver value-for-money designs, support technical debt reduction for our re-platformed legacy benefit payment services, and the evolution of our services. There is complexity, and unique problems to solve. These services have recently been remediated from a Cobol VME platform to modernised infrastructure supporting MicroFocus Cobol based applications on a Linux Platform. You'll need to be a good, persuasive communicator - making the complex simple to understand. You'll work on product roadmaps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, in order to gain approval to proceed with designs Your Essential Skills: Shaping and supporting the delivery of large scale, enterprise, business critical services Integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice Event-based API-driven architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards Agile delivery methodologies and best practice Presenting to technical governance forums. Details. Wages. Perks. In return for your skills, we pay £52,412 - £70,000 per annum. You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions to 28.97% - that could be worth over £18,000 in your pension pot each year. Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and family-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Senior Solution Architect Our team of Senior Solutions Architects are the champions of innovation, tackling complex challenges that directly impact society's most vulnerable. Join us in shaping the future of digital services at DWP, where your expertise will drive meaningful change and empower our users like never before. Pay £52,412 to £70,000, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions worth over £17,000. Hybrid working, and great work life balance. Includes flexi-time with up 3 extra flex-days off a month. Location Your choice of Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Hybrid hub / home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. DWP is the UK's largest government department that helps people into work and makes payments worth over £195bn a year to support millions of daily users. We're transforming mission-critical payment services, and delivering £250 billion payments per year to the most vulnerable people in society. Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and ground-breaking technologies to create innovative, scalable, and user-centric digital solutions that are changing how government works, how people interact with us, and we make payments. We are looking for motivated, purpose-driven Solutions Architects like you to take on the challenge of solving complex problems that will improve outcomes for the most vulnerable citizens in our society. Designing World-Class Products You'll be working with our Benefits Payments Systems team. The BPS project delivers essential services to DWP customers. It's a big ticket. The systems we work on pay £1.4 billion in working age benefits, disability benefits, and pension benefits each year. As part of a small team of Architects, you'll collaborate closely with Testers, Engineers, Project Managers, and a larger BPS team comprising over 200 members, improving payments on major benefits like Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). As Senior Solution Architect, we'll look to your expertise to deliver value-for-money designs, support technical debt reduction for our re-platformed legacy benefit payment services, and the evolution of our services. There is complexity, and unique problems to solve. These services have recently been remediated from a Cobol VME platform to modernised infrastructure supporting MicroFocus Cobol based applications on a Linux Platform. You'll need to be a good, persuasive communicator - making the complex simple to understand. You'll work on product roadmaps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, in order to gain approval to proceed with designs Your Essential Skills: Shaping and supporting the delivery of large scale, enterprise, business critical services Integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice Event-based API-driven architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards Agile delivery methodologies and best practice Presenting to technical governance forums. Details. Wages. Perks. In return for your skills, we pay £52,412 - £70,000 per annum. You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions to 28.97% - that could be worth over £18,000 in your pension pot each year. Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and family-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service
AWE is currently recruiting for an experienced Software Architect to support a team of software developers in the delivery of a new battle modelling capability. This is an opportunity work within our Software Development team and in collaboration with our wider Physics community to provide extensive expertise, champion the agile software development method and ensure the overall functionality of the code. Location: Reading/Basingstoke area - We are located between Reading and Basingstoke, with onsite parking. There are good bus links between Reading, Basingstoke, and Newbury. Package: £60,000-£80,000 (depending on suitability and level of experience) A relocation package may be available - terms and conditions apply. Closing Date: 16th April 2024 As a Software Architect at AWE you will be responsible for defining and maintaining the framework of the code, defining the interfaces between the functional elements of the code and generating the tests require to validate the code. What will you be responsible for? Implement the vision of the software Capability Lead and challenge the vision, where appropriate Own the development of the software to ensure that it meets the requirements Define and maintain the framework of the code Define the tasks for the software developers to support the agile methodology Define the software verification tests Remain aware of current software best practices What knowledge/skills will you need to be considered? Ideally, candidates will have a degree in a relevant STEM discipline at (2:1) or higher. Essential: Experience of software development and delivery with a consideration for time, quality and cost Leadership of software development teams for complex projects Experience developing software with scientific and/or engineering applications Experience developing software that emulates the function of physical systems or environments 10 years C++ development in external industry Working knowledge of C++ 11 Familiarity with FORTRAN, C#, SQL, Python Experience with GitLab, Enterprise Architect and Visual Studio Desirable: Post graduate qualification in computer science Working knowledge of C++ 20 Experience working in a science or technology focused environment Experience developing software for scientific applications Experience with coding statistical methods, e.g. Monte Carlo What will you get from us? As part of our People Promise, AWE ( one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK ) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include: Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (including Bank Holidays). 9-day working fortnight - our employees have every other Friday off work. Flexible working hours. Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time. Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay. Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training. Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services. A market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution). Life Assurance. Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending savings. Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family. A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site. Important things you need to know: Interviews will be 90 minutes in length and will be held over Microsoft Teams. You will be required to prepare a 10-minute presentation in advance. Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. Agencies: Please note that we do not out-source our recruitment
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
AWE is currently recruiting for an experienced Software Architect to support a team of software developers in the delivery of a new battle modelling capability. This is an opportunity work within our Software Development team and in collaboration with our wider Physics community to provide extensive expertise, champion the agile software development method and ensure the overall functionality of the code. Location: Reading/Basingstoke area - We are located between Reading and Basingstoke, with onsite parking. There are good bus links between Reading, Basingstoke, and Newbury. Package: £60,000-£80,000 (depending on suitability and level of experience) A relocation package may be available - terms and conditions apply. Closing Date: 16th April 2024 As a Software Architect at AWE you will be responsible for defining and maintaining the framework of the code, defining the interfaces between the functional elements of the code and generating the tests require to validate the code. What will you be responsible for? Implement the vision of the software Capability Lead and challenge the vision, where appropriate Own the development of the software to ensure that it meets the requirements Define and maintain the framework of the code Define the tasks for the software developers to support the agile methodology Define the software verification tests Remain aware of current software best practices What knowledge/skills will you need to be considered? Ideally, candidates will have a degree in a relevant STEM discipline at (2:1) or higher. Essential: Experience of software development and delivery with a consideration for time, quality and cost Leadership of software development teams for complex projects Experience developing software with scientific and/or engineering applications Experience developing software that emulates the function of physical systems or environments 10 years C++ development in external industry Working knowledge of C++ 11 Familiarity with FORTRAN, C#, SQL, Python Experience with GitLab, Enterprise Architect and Visual Studio Desirable: Post graduate qualification in computer science Working knowledge of C++ 20 Experience working in a science or technology focused environment Experience developing software for scientific applications Experience with coding statistical methods, e.g. Monte Carlo What will you get from us? As part of our People Promise, AWE ( one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK ) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include: Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (including Bank Holidays). 9-day working fortnight - our employees have every other Friday off work. Flexible working hours. Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time. Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay. Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training. Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services. A market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution). Life Assurance. Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending savings. Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family. A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site. Important things you need to know: Interviews will be 90 minutes in length and will be held over Microsoft Teams. You will be required to prepare a 10-minute presentation in advance. Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. Agencies: Please note that we do not out-source our recruitment
Senior Software Engineer - (RL7309) Job Title - Senior Software Engineer Reference - RL7309 Salary - Competitive Benefits - Pension, Life Insurance, Health Care, Dental, Gym, Birthday Benefits, 25 days' annual leave, Fitness Classes, & Progression Location - Paignton The Client - Curo are Partnering with a Global Company who deliver their B2B Customers cutting-edge technology. They offer a collaborative and friendly environment, and benefit from excellent retention. The Role - You will be a member of the Positioning Technology (PT) Software Engineering team focusing on innovative design, development and support of software applications for both current and next generation Positioning, Navigating and Timing Simulation test solutions. The role will report directly to one of the Software Team Managers and will have a close working relationship with peer level Project Management Office (PMO), Product Marketing, Engineering and Services team members. Key Responsibilities: Play a technical role in assigned Software projects as a member of the Software team. Contribute to the software development life cycle from its design to implementation and validation. Work as part of the software and/or multi-disciplined Engineering teams to deliver projects and programs. Play a role in developing and defining new product concepts and ideas for both Product and Services. Connect with other functional areas within the organization to drive technical solutions Education: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar discipline preferred Job Requirements: Longstanding, demonstrable experience of working within a structured engineering environment that includes Requirements Analysis/Definition, Design/Implementation, Defect Tracking, and Testing Good knowledge of modern C++. Experience using high level/Scripting languages eg Python, Perl, bash Good understanding of Linux based operating systems architecture and how to optimize applications for performance Experience developing multi-core/multi-threaded applications Can effectively apply client's ISO accredited Product Realisation Process (PRP) Desired: Digital Signal Processing experience Programming for Real Time operating systems Knowledge of GNSS signals Knowledge or experience in Visual Studio® product Good knowledge of Object-Oriented software principles Knowledge of configuration management tools and software version control Knowledge of CI best practice Ability to contribute to and eventually lead multi-disciplinary projects through the Project Realisation Process Personal Attributes: Concise, clear and professional communication Communicates effectively, listens sensitively, adapts communication to audience and fosters effective communication with others. Initiative - steps up and takes action without being asked. Looks for opportunities to make a difference. Resourcefulness - adapts to new/difficult situations and devises ways to overcome obstacles. Decisive, determined and persistent - demonstrating both individual and collective ownership. Leading by example and results oriented - focus is on getting to the desired outcome. Additional demonstrable leadership traits. Consistency of approach. Good organizational skills Creativity - original/innovative thinker, ability to go beyond traditional approaches. To apply for this Senior Software Engineer permanent job, please click the button below and submit your latest CV. Curo Services endeavours to respond to all applications, however this may not always be possible during periods of high volume. Thank you for your patience. Curo Services is a trading name of Curo Resourcing Ltd and acts as an Employment Business for contract and temporary recruitment as well as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Senior Software Engineer - (RL7309) Job Title - Senior Software Engineer Reference - RL7309 Salary - Competitive Benefits - Pension, Life Insurance, Health Care, Dental, Gym, Birthday Benefits, 25 days' annual leave, Fitness Classes, & Progression Location - Paignton The Client - Curo are Partnering with a Global Company who deliver their B2B Customers cutting-edge technology. They offer a collaborative and friendly environment, and benefit from excellent retention. The Role - You will be a member of the Positioning Technology (PT) Software Engineering team focusing on innovative design, development and support of software applications for both current and next generation Positioning, Navigating and Timing Simulation test solutions. The role will report directly to one of the Software Team Managers and will have a close working relationship with peer level Project Management Office (PMO), Product Marketing, Engineering and Services team members. Key Responsibilities: Play a technical role in assigned Software projects as a member of the Software team. Contribute to the software development life cycle from its design to implementation and validation. Work as part of the software and/or multi-disciplined Engineering teams to deliver projects and programs. Play a role in developing and defining new product concepts and ideas for both Product and Services. Connect with other functional areas within the organization to drive technical solutions Education: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar discipline preferred Job Requirements: Longstanding, demonstrable experience of working within a structured engineering environment that includes Requirements Analysis/Definition, Design/Implementation, Defect Tracking, and Testing Good knowledge of modern C++. Experience using high level/Scripting languages eg Python, Perl, bash Good understanding of Linux based operating systems architecture and how to optimize applications for performance Experience developing multi-core/multi-threaded applications Can effectively apply client's ISO accredited Product Realisation Process (PRP) Desired: Digital Signal Processing experience Programming for Real Time operating systems Knowledge of GNSS signals Knowledge or experience in Visual Studio® product Good knowledge of Object-Oriented software principles Knowledge of configuration management tools and software version control Knowledge of CI best practice Ability to contribute to and eventually lead multi-disciplinary projects through the Project Realisation Process Personal Attributes: Concise, clear and professional communication Communicates effectively, listens sensitively, adapts communication to audience and fosters effective communication with others. Initiative - steps up and takes action without being asked. Looks for opportunities to make a difference. Resourcefulness - adapts to new/difficult situations and devises ways to overcome obstacles. Decisive, determined and persistent - demonstrating both individual and collective ownership. Leading by example and results oriented - focus is on getting to the desired outcome. Additional demonstrable leadership traits. Consistency of approach. Good organizational skills Creativity - original/innovative thinker, ability to go beyond traditional approaches. To apply for this Senior Software Engineer permanent job, please click the button below and submit your latest CV. Curo Services endeavours to respond to all applications, however this may not always be possible during periods of high volume. Thank you for your patience. Curo Services is a trading name of Curo Resourcing Ltd and acts as an Employment Business for contract and temporary recruitment as well as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.
Senior Solution Architect Our team of Senior Solutions Architects are the champions of innovation, tackling complex challenges that directly impact society's most vulnerable. Join us in shaping the future of digital services at DWP, where your expertise will drive meaningful change and empower our users like never before. Pay £52,412 to £70,000, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions worth over £17,000. Hybrid working, and great work life balance. Includes flexi-time with up 3 extra flex-days off a month. Location Your choice of Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Hybrid hub / home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. DWP is the UK's largest government department that helps people into work and makes payments worth over £195bn a year to support millions of daily users. We're transforming mission-critical payment services, and delivering £250 billion payments per year to the most vulnerable people in society. Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and ground-breaking technologies to create innovative, scalable, and user-centric digital solutions that are changing how government works, how people interact with us, and we make payments. We are looking for motivated, purpose-driven Solutions Architects like you to take on the challenge of solving complex problems that will improve outcomes for the most vulnerable citizens in our society. Designing World-Class Products You'll be working with our Benefits Payments Systems team. The BPS project delivers essential services to DWP customers. It's a big ticket. The systems we work on pay £1.4 billion in working age benefits, disability benefits, and pension benefits each year. As part of a small team of Architects, you'll collaborate closely with Testers, Engineers, Project Managers, and a larger BPS team comprising over 200 members, improving payments on major benefits like Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). As Senior Solution Architect, we'll look to your expertise to deliver value-for-money designs, support technical debt reduction for our re-platformed legacy benefit payment services, and the evolution of our services. There is complexity, and unique problems to solve. These services have recently been remediated from a Cobol VME platform to modernised infrastructure supporting MicroFocus Cobol based applications on a Linux Platform. You'll need to be a good, persuasive communicator - making the complex simple to understand. You'll work on product roadmaps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, in order to gain approval to proceed with designs Your Essential Skills: Shaping and supporting the delivery of large scale, enterprise, business critical services Integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice Event-based API-driven architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards Agile delivery methodologies and best practice Presenting to technical governance forums. Details. Wages. Perks. In return for your skills, we pay £52,412 - £70,000 per annum. You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions to 28.97% - that could be worth over £18,000 in your pension pot each year. Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and family-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
Senior Solution Architect Our team of Senior Solutions Architects are the champions of innovation, tackling complex challenges that directly impact society's most vulnerable. Join us in shaping the future of digital services at DWP, where your expertise will drive meaningful change and empower our users like never before. Pay £52,412 to £70,000, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions worth over £17,000. Hybrid working, and great work life balance. Includes flexi-time with up 3 extra flex-days off a month. Location Your choice of Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Hybrid hub / home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. DWP is the UK's largest government department that helps people into work and makes payments worth over £195bn a year to support millions of daily users. We're transforming mission-critical payment services, and delivering £250 billion payments per year to the most vulnerable people in society. Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and ground-breaking technologies to create innovative, scalable, and user-centric digital solutions that are changing how government works, how people interact with us, and we make payments. We are looking for motivated, purpose-driven Solutions Architects like you to take on the challenge of solving complex problems that will improve outcomes for the most vulnerable citizens in our society. Designing World-Class Products You'll be working with our Benefits Payments Systems team. The BPS project delivers essential services to DWP customers. It's a big ticket. The systems we work on pay £1.4 billion in working age benefits, disability benefits, and pension benefits each year. As part of a small team of Architects, you'll collaborate closely with Testers, Engineers, Project Managers, and a larger BPS team comprising over 200 members, improving payments on major benefits like Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). As Senior Solution Architect, we'll look to your expertise to deliver value-for-money designs, support technical debt reduction for our re-platformed legacy benefit payment services, and the evolution of our services. There is complexity, and unique problems to solve. These services have recently been remediated from a Cobol VME platform to modernised infrastructure supporting MicroFocus Cobol based applications on a Linux Platform. You'll need to be a good, persuasive communicator - making the complex simple to understand. You'll work on product roadmaps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, in order to gain approval to proceed with designs Your Essential Skills: Shaping and supporting the delivery of large scale, enterprise, business critical services Integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice Event-based API-driven architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards Agile delivery methodologies and best practice Presenting to technical governance forums. Details. Wages. Perks. In return for your skills, we pay £52,412 - £70,000 per annum. You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions to 28.97% - that could be worth over £18,000 in your pension pot each year. Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and family-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our growing Engineering Team. As a proven and experienced engineer, you will form part of an agile cross-functional team in developing and maintaining clients flagship digital platform, transforming our ways of working and delivering excellent customer experience. How you'll do it You will be providing expert technical leadership in the design of our cloud-based platform. You will help define the engineering standards, implement best practice, and contribute to our technical and product roadmap. You will act as a coach and mentor, providing technical leadership to the engineering teams. We are investing significantly into our own digital products built on Azure serverless, microservices solutions, low code (power platform), data infrastructure (lakes, integrations etc) and IoT (Internet of Things). It is an extremely exciting time to join us as we have an established high performing team and a multi-million programme of works for the future that underpins our business strategy. The Ideal Candidate We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification. You will have a passion and solid experience in designing solutions that are to a high-quality coding standard, secure, scalable, and resilient. to solve business needs. You have demonstrable experience in setting the technical direction of the engineering pillar by having a deep understanding of the needs of the organization around you. You influence this direction through a consensus-based approach using your people leadership skills and technical expertise. You will have technical experience and knowledge of the following: Expert level experience with software development on the Microsoft tech stack using .NET, ReactJS, REST APIs and Azure services in a microservice architecture Experience with both Azure SQL Server and no SQL DBs such as ComosDB Experience with cloud-based development using Azure services (Service bus, logic App, Function App Azure API Manager) Experience with DevOps automated tooling technology (GIT, Azure DevOps) Excellent practical knowledge of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) concepts and SOLID principles Enthusiastic about delivery and experience working in a fast-paced agile environment Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams Degree/certification in Computer Science/IT or equivalent experience What's in it for you? Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include: Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply) Generous pension scheme Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply) Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations. Health cash plan Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more. Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan Cycle to work scheme. GCS is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Apr 18, 2024
Full time
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our growing Engineering Team. As a proven and experienced engineer, you will form part of an agile cross-functional team in developing and maintaining clients flagship digital platform, transforming our ways of working and delivering excellent customer experience. How you'll do it You will be providing expert technical leadership in the design of our cloud-based platform. You will help define the engineering standards, implement best practice, and contribute to our technical and product roadmap. You will act as a coach and mentor, providing technical leadership to the engineering teams. We are investing significantly into our own digital products built on Azure serverless, microservices solutions, low code (power platform), data infrastructure (lakes, integrations etc) and IoT (Internet of Things). It is an extremely exciting time to join us as we have an established high performing team and a multi-million programme of works for the future that underpins our business strategy. The Ideal Candidate We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification. You will have a passion and solid experience in designing solutions that are to a high-quality coding standard, secure, scalable, and resilient. to solve business needs. You have demonstrable experience in setting the technical direction of the engineering pillar by having a deep understanding of the needs of the organization around you. You influence this direction through a consensus-based approach using your people leadership skills and technical expertise. You will have technical experience and knowledge of the following: Expert level experience with software development on the Microsoft tech stack using .NET, ReactJS, REST APIs and Azure services in a microservice architecture Experience with both Azure SQL Server and no SQL DBs such as ComosDB Experience with cloud-based development using Azure services (Service bus, logic App, Function App Azure API Manager) Experience with DevOps automated tooling technology (GIT, Azure DevOps) Excellent practical knowledge of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) concepts and SOLID principles Enthusiastic about delivery and experience working in a fast-paced agile environment Excellent communication skills, ability to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams Degree/certification in Computer Science/IT or equivalent experience What's in it for you? Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential. Benefits include: Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply) Generous pension scheme Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply) Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations. Health cash plan Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more. Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan Cycle to work scheme. GCS is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.