Systems Analyst

End Date
Monday 25 March 2024
Salary Range
£68,202 - £102,303
We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options.
Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
.Systems Analyst
Lloyds Banking Group
Location: Dundee. Hybrid working arrangements, (currently at least 2 days per week in office)
Salary & Benefits: £66,861 - £74,290 base salary, plus competitive benefits package including 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, access to share scheme and staff discounts.
We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices flexibility to suit your lifestyle and ensure a good work-life balance.
Our team
We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help!
We’ve an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Systems Analyst and play a leading role in helping to grow our Wealth and Pensions business. You’d be helping us bring together the strengths of Lloyds Banking Group with one of the UK’s fastest growing financial services businesses and one of the leading retirement solutions providers in the UK - Embark Group.
We're looking to bring a keen focus to our wealth and investment product offerings to help our customers achieve their financial goals. Through our acquisition of Embark, we’ll seek to improve how we serve and support our customers through modern, easy to use, ground breaking technology, whilst also modernising the way Scottish Widows works with intermediaries.
This opportunity is the next exciting piece of the jigsaw for LBG and you could be part of it!
Job Description
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Lloyds Banking Group?
Lloyds Banking Group is on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it!
Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organization.
Core purpose of the role
As a Systems Analyst you will undertake and participate in all aspects of the development lifecycle. This will include requirements analysis, solution design, data interrogation and support of the development and test phases with a particular focus on the technical aspects such as API mapping and documentation, understanding database structures/schemas and defect triage.
Working within the Business Analysis team, you’ll operate on a diverse range of projects including platform upgrades, UI enhancements, asset migrations & white label implementations where you’ll be expected to play an active role in bridging the gap between business analysis and development, assisting in the production of technical specifications.
What you’ll be involved in:

• Engage with the Business Change team to ensure solutions remain aligned with the company goals and business requirements.
• Identifying and documenting potential solutions considering all available information and constraints.
• Documenting and maintaining API mapping.
• Input into creation and maintenance of a data dictionary.
• Technical defect triage/interrogation.
• Developing a deep understanding of the platforms and their operation, particularly areas such as document outputs and scheduled tasks.
• Supporting development resource with issue resolution.
• Ability to create and analyse complex data sets.
• Input into test strategy and support creation of test data and scripts.
• Adhering to relevant methodologies and standards to meet the needs of a fast-paced changing business.

Essential skills and experience:

• Experience of working in a major wrap platform environment, either from client or supplier side.
• Experience working on digital transformation programmes.
• Significant experience and understanding of APIs and their usage.
• Experience in using and building test harnesses through packages such as SOAP UI or Postman
• Highly proficient in SQL.
• Self-motivation and a track record of working to a high personal and professional standard.
• Strong communication skills.

Why else would you want to work with us?
Whatever your aspirations, you can expect excellent benefits, personal development, and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity.
We'll provide you with a diverse, energising, and informal environment that takes a strong focus on equal opportunity and supports career progression on all levels.
Enhancing your personal and professional development is something that is very important to us, so we'll work with you to make a positive difference to the overall teams' mission. We want you to learn, grow & develop to become the best possible version of yourself.
We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together!
Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.
Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together.
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.