Technical Application Service Specialist

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension contribution

Performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Flexible lifestyle benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in the UK is seeking a Technical Application Service Specialist to enhance digital capabilities and lead critical service initiatives. The candidate will leverage their technical expertise to drive service improvements, manage operations, and collaborate with various teams. This role requires strong leadership and operational ownership, contributing to high-quality service delivery in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience improving high-availability systems.
• Deep technical insights for complex service-related issues.
• Ability to manage third-party relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead dynamic teams for service delivery.
• Act as Lead SME for incident resolution.
• Foster an engineering culture of innovation.

Skills

Technical expertise

Operational ownership

Leadership

Governance

Job description

Technical Application Service Specialist

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This position takes a leading role in enabling the Group's ambition to modernise our digital capabilities whilst serving our current digital demand.

As a Technical Application Service Specialist, you'll help deliver great customer experiences, contribute to service strategy, and manage high-priority service issues. You'll have the opportunity to service our legacy core systems or digital services, with two dynamic roles available to make a lasting impact.

Your deep technical expertise will enable you to work within or lead cross‑disciplinary teams, resolving service‑related and management issues while ensuring technical priorities are met.

This role emphasises strategic thinking, process improvement, and cross‑functional collaboration to elevate overall service quality.

Day to day, you'll:

• Lead the Legacy Maintenance & Migration Service or Workplace Digital team to ensure high quality delivery of tasks, aligning with Lab agile methodologies.
• Act as Lead SME for any incident resolution relating to underlying applications or online service.
• Ensure a continuous focus and improvement on service stability and observability. Lead trend analysis to improve service and own all lifecycle management activities on tools including ServiceNow.
• Influence the technical direction of the lab by mentoring your teams and ensuring the delivery of robust, scalable, secure and innovative solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, engineers and developers, to prioritise and deliver the roadmap and key controls.
• Make sure that a portfolio of suppliers delivers required levels of service while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Foster an engineering culture of experimentation, learning and continuous innovation while shaping and contributing to the overall technical strategy.
• Play an active part in the Engineering Leadership team, supporting others & directly reporting into the Lab Service Lead (TASS) on either the Individual or Workplace parts of the Accumulation platform.
• Identify shortcomings in current compliance processes, systems and procedures; develop ad hoc solutions to immediate problems within assigned unit and/or discipline.
• Grow own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develop the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework; provide specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation.

What you'll need:

• Technology Expertise – Provide deep technical insights and lead the resolution of complex service‑related issues within our source business systems and our web technologies. Proven ability to implement system changes and ensure operational stability.
• Operational – Take full ownership of system availability, performance, and currency, accepting 24/7 accountability. Proven experience improving run operations for high‑availability systems, including automation, monitoring, and observability. Demonstrable experience of incident resolution, war room support and root cause identification. Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve technical issues and challenges. Explain and prioritise problems and their possible solutions with colleagues and other partners.
• Leadership – Deliver standards and ensure solutions align with business goals and architecture. Implement the engineering service strategy and standards across the platform by focusing on methods and collaborating to embed them throughout end‑to‑end engineering activities. Ability to support diverse engineering change in an agile environment, with strong collaboration and communication skills. Responsible for line management, coaching, mentoring and promoting standards across Product & Engineering.
• Governance – Manage third‑party relationships and support regular Governance meetings, with a focus on service performance, security and controls.

In addition, any experience of these would be useful:

• Cloud Platform – Familiarity with the development and maintenance of resilient systems on cloud platforms including currency uplifts.
• Experience in optimisation and developing embedded automated deploy, monitoring and dynamic controls.
• Ability to define objectives and measure metrics to optimise run and change processes.

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.

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

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose.

Location(s): Edinburgh & Bristol

Hours: Full Time - 35 Hours per week

Working pattern: Our work style is hybrid; spend at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

This range is provided by Lloyds Banking Group. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Software Development