Software Engineer - Mainframe

End date

Wednesday 14 February 2024

Salary range

£45,054 - £50,060

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Agile Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked; Hybrid Working

Job description

Job Title: Software Engineer - Mainframe

Salary: £45,954 - £51,060

Location: Halifax

Hours: Full 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

Our team in Mortgages is passionate about creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together smart, hardworking people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment allowing us to deliver at our best. Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of Mortgages in the UK, with over 2 million active Mortgages. We have placed Mortgages at the heart of our strategy to become the best bank for customers.

Working in one of our cross-disciplinary teams engineers will have the opportunity to develop their technical knowledge and understanding as well develop, practice and demonstrate the workplace skills and behaviours required for this job role. They will also join and attend Communities of Practice, Engineering Guilds and Working Groups to deliver peer-to-peer mentoring.

Want to know more?

You'll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software, working in partnership with a range of teams encountering lots of exciting new challenges. You'll become a core contributor ensuring quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

• You'll build relationships and work efficiently with others across a variety of domains, subject areas and locations.
• Be passionate about technology and its application to real-world problems with strong Computer Science fundamentals.
• You'll demonstrate design and UX sensibilities and have excellent communication skills with the ability to explain ideas and problems clearly to non-development colleagues and partners.
• You'll build/maintain efficient and reusable systems, find and address application/performance issues, participate in design and code reviews.
• You'll also identify general improvements and implement methodologies, collaborate with the product/design team to iterate the design function and implement the products and collaborate with Front-end and DevOps Engineers to build features and experiments.

What you'll need

• Mainframe Technical skills – COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF
• Mainframe Tools – Endevor, BMC Catalog Manager, Abend-Aid, MainView
• Experience in using modern dev tool (IDE) such as VSCode
• CI/CD Tools - Jenkins (build scheduler)
• Web services testing – Postman / SOAP UI
• Software development lifecycle and methodologies

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
• 28 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!