Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK bank is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join their Domestic Payments Lab. The role involves delivering secure payment solutions and mentoring team members. Ideal candidates will have skills in Agile development, experience in the Banking domain, and knowledge of various programming languages like Cobol and Java. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in supporting customer welfare and combating fraud.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus award based on Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

Adaptable lifestyle benefits

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in software development lifecycle, preferably Agile.
• Experience in Banking with Faster Payments and BACS.
• Technical Guidance and Mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end engineering Payment solutions.
• Contribute to strategic direction for application development.
• Ensure applications are secure and perform across devices.

Skills

Software development lifecycle

Agile Framework

IBM z/OS

JCL

TSO

Cobol

Java

REST API's

Source code management

Endevor

GitHub

Engineering practices

Continuous development

Experience in Banking domain

Technical Guidance

Mentoring

Job description

Are you an experienced Software Engineer who wants to join an Award Winning Lab and are passionate about engineering and Group Transformation? Our goal in the Domestic Payments Lab Value Stream is to support customer welfare through secure payments and fraud prevention. Support Domestic Payments Lab Business Areas with compliant, fast, secure transaction services to combat threats. As a Senior Software Mainframe Engineer is tasked with delivering end-to-end engineering Payment solutions for our customers. Your involvement is essential to our strategy of simplifying, modernizing, and de-risking the Payments landscape, and ultimately generating value for customers and shareholders. Software Engineers engage with a variety of customers, external partners, and our internal development and testing teams to help achieve IT strategies effectively.

• Having strong skills in software development lifecycle is essential (preferably the Agile Framework) and should be demonstrable through your experience to date.
• Ensure software is built in a way that is consistent with the frameworks, patterns and practices that exist across the wider engineering community.
• Contribute to setting the strategic direction for how applications are developed within the team and contribute through all stages of development from initiation through to live implementation.
• Apply industry innovation and share knowledge to solve complex business problems without precedent, ensuring implementation of solutions when needed.
• Also ensure applications are fast, secure and work across all manner of devices.
  Experience working with the following: IBM z/OS, JCL, TSO, Cobol, Connect:Direct, Java, REST API's.
• Source code management and managing change with experience of Endevor and GitHub.
• Engineering practices, continuous development, integration, testing and production support.
• Experience in the Banking domain, in particular Faster Payments and BACS.
• Experience of Technical Guidance and Mentoring.

Here’s how you can make a difference, 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.

Benefits

• 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. At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We’re focused on creating a values‑led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.