Software Engineer - Enterprise Risk Platform

End Date
Thursday 01 February 2024
Salary Range
£66,861 - £100,292
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Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
Job Title: Software Engineer
Salary: £66,861 to £74,290
Location:Leeds
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: At least 2 days per week in our Leeds office.
About this Opportunity
Our team in Enterprise Risk Platform is passionate about crafting new services that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together inquisitive, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.
Working within the Prudential & Analytics lab, you will lead other data engineers and work with Risk customers to design and deploy data solutions that underpin the financial stability of Lloyds Banking Group.
Here’s where you’ll make a difference
This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a team delivering regulatory and technology change!
We're seeking a role model to lead other engineers in the team by providing technical expertise and insight, and to support customers by ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.
We're looking for someone who can quickly grasp new technical challenges and if you have a broad understanding of how data solutions and services are developed, tested and implemented then you would be an asset to our team!
We are pioneering the transformation of current processes from our on-premises platforms and have started our journey in deploying solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. This role sits within our labs analytics pillar who are looking to create strategic data products and build data and analytics capability.
We work using agile delivery practices, so a self-led individual capable of accurately estimating and planning their own work would be valued highly.
What You’d Get Involved With:

• Design, develop, maintain and improve data processes to support regulatory and prudential change with high quality solutions and providing oversight and leadership to help others do the same.
  
• Building data products, pipelines and API’s for current and future analytics and reporting solutions
  
• Implement and exemplify engineering standards to act as a mentor to colleagues, using constructive feedback to create opportunities for learning.
  
• Work with the Product Owner and customers to understand, refine and prioritise items for the feature team backlog, using strong problem-solving skills and a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and clearly set-out the way forward.
  
• Strong Data Engineering background and good knowledge of waterfall and agile development practices.
  

What you’ll need

• Passion for software and data engineering, adopting the mindset of a curious engineer
  
• Experience with cloud technology for data solutions, particularly Google Cloud Platform
  
• Experience SQL, Java, Python or SAS and other open source technologies used in analytics is essential.
  
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready solutions
  
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non-technical people.
  

Desirable skills include:

• Insights into industry solutions for data management, storage, and analytics
  
• Experience of working within regulatory change would be advantageous, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes
  
• Experience of line management.
  

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure that 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 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
  

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?
Apply today and find out more
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.