Technical Application Specialist

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial services organization in the City of Westminster is seeking a Technical Application Specialist responsible for enhancing resilience in Internet Banking systems. The role demands expertise in Batch, Db2, and Cloud platforms, along with strong software engineering practices. Ideal candidates should have a background in managing highly available systems and experience with incident resolution. Join us to make a difference in financial services!

Qualifications

• Experience with Batch and Db2 to ensure quality delivery.
• Deep understanding of the software lifecycle.
• Experience in managing and designing end to end API services.

Responsibilities

• Work on Internet Banking Batch and Db2 changes.
• Support incident resolution and improve service stability.
• Collaborate with product owners and engineers.

Skills

Internet Banking Batch

IBDB2

DevOps Pipeline optimisation

Software lifecycle understanding

Operational optimisation

ServiceNow

Cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS)

API services management

Tools

Foundation Server

F5

DataPower

Job description

Overview

As a platform, our purpose is to enable smarter API & System of Engagement led innovation tomorrow while ensuring resilient Digital Services today, and we do this by providing and evolving a set of highly reusable digital products that enable platforms to build journeys outside of our current digital platform where they can operate change independently whilst maintaining resilience 24/7. In this role, as a Technical Application Specialist, you will be responsible for Internet Banking DB2, Batch and DataPower, enhancing the resilience of these application whilst supporting consumers to modernise their journeys to deploy their code independently. Your team will deliver key changes that will be critical for Digital Modernisation and enhance the overall engineering experience for our consumers. If you're passionate about modernising codebases, implementing technological efficiencies in complex systems to unlock the pace of application and microservice development, we want you to join us!

Responsibilities

• Working on changes for Internet Banking Batch and Db2 ensuring high quality delivery of tasks, stories via agile methodologies.
• Supporting any incident resolution relating to Batch, and Db2.
• Continually improving service stability and observability for Batch and Db2.
• Raising changes on ServiceNow for Batch and Db2.
• Collaborating with DataPower team and becoming an SME for Batch & Db2.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, architects, engineers and developers, to deliver changes via our front door process
• Foster an engineering culture of experimentation, learning and continuous innovation.
• Technology Expertise - Strong knowledge and expertise of Internet Banking Batch and IBDB2.
• Software Engineering - Possess a deep understanding of the software lifecycle, ensuring high standards in design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Operational optimisation - experience with Run operations for highly available systems, including control automation, end to end system monitoring and observability
• Service Sustainability & Incident Resolution - demonstrable experience of incident resolution, war room support and root cause identification.
• Delivery - Experience in deploying changes into production for customers
• Cloud Platform - Familiarity with the development of resilient systems on cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS.
• Experience and knowledge of Foundation Server and F5
• Experience and knowledge of DataPower
• Experience of managing and designing end to end API services (preferably REST) and SDKs.
• Experience of DevOps Pipeline optimisation and developing embedded and dynamic controls.

Our culture and diversity

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.

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.