Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Job summary

A major UK banking institution is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ to deliver complex technical support for mainframe environments. This full-time role involves responsibilities such as supporting MQ infrastructure, driving technology strategies, and working collaboratively across teams. Candidates should have extensive experience with MQ system performance and critical online systems, along with strong troubleshooting skills. The position offers a hybrid working model based in Leeds and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on zOS.
• Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning and diagnosis.
• Experience of supporting and troubleshooting critical online systems.
• Experience with Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Responsibilities

• Provide support for complex environments to tight timescales.
• Help drive the strategy and design across the mainframe development.
• Work closely with key stakeholders and deliver against the technology roadmap.
• Enforce standardisation and assist with improvement initiatives.
• Ensure processes and procedures are strictly adhered to.

Skills

MQ infrastructure on zOS

MQ system performance tuning

Supporting critical online systems

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Job description

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Base pay range

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Working pattern

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 Leeds office.

About this opportunity

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's biggest Digital, Retail, and Commercial bank seeking to help Britain prosper and we're transforming our products and platforms with £3bn of investment to become the bank of the future.

With 789 software systems and 26,000 servers we're servicing 80,000 colleagues, 30m+ customers, and over 14m+ online users you can be confident our IT professionals have sizeable and interesting challenges every single day.

In this role, you'll deliver highly complex technical support for systems and processes in mainframe environments, focusing on decommissioning and bug fixing. You'll help maintain and help migrate services according to Group standards and policies (and to agreed service levels) and will assist with the delivery of investment funded work within mainframe environments - this includes out of hours.

Additionally, you'll provide technical support (including incident and problem resolution for systems and processes in complex environments) - again this includes out of hours support.

What you'll do

• Provide support for complex environments to tight timescales.
• Help drive the strategy and design across the mainframe development and test estate.
• Work closely with key stakeholders, drive and deliver against the technology roadmap.
• Enforce standardisation and assist with improvement initiatives in the team.
• Work collaboratively across the wider Middleware teams to develop, promote, and implement process initiatives.
• Ensure processes and procedures are strictly adhered to.

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

• Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on zOS
• Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning and diagnosis
• Experience of supporting and troubleshooting critical on-line systems.
• Experience with Transport Layer Security (TLS)

It would be great if you also had

• Diagnostic skills and an ability to analyse technical information from various sources, allowing the provision of highly effective solutions in complex environments

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering, Finance, and Information Technology
• Banking and Financial Services