Address End Date
Friday 29 March 2024 Salary Range
£0 - £0 Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
. Job Description
JOB TITLE: Xceptor - Software Subject Matter Expert
SALARY: Competitive (dependent on experience and location)
LOCATIONS: London / Birmingham / Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About This Opportunity
This is an outstanding opportunity for a driven, pro-active individual to join our Markets and Lending Delivery team as a Xceptor Software Subject Matter Expert.
Using your extensive knowledge of product life cycles in the Markets space, you'll design and build the optimal solutions to automate manually intensive activities within Xceptor.
You'll support with the collation of business requirements, solution design, planning, and leading the delivery of the solution into business activities. You'll demonstrate great deployment practices and be responsible for helping to define and build front to back solutions whilst adhering to governance controls.
Working within a highly productive team, you'll provide technical and practical solutions to support the automation of post trade activity to increase scalability and efficiency. This will be performed against a backdrop of control improvements, moving detective controls to preventative, and closer to the activity source.
Tight-knit collaboration and engagement skills are vital as you'll collaborate closely with all business units and you must be comfortable operating in an agile, dynamic environment.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What You’ll Need
This role will best suit a software engineer that wants to make a transition into a business role OR a business SME with a strong technical background. If you're passionate about post trade automation and simplification & meet the below requirements we'd love to hear from you!
- Strong Xceptor knowledge - at least to v4 (both application and server side)
- Knowledge of product life cycles
- Demonstrable experience of developing post trade solutions within Xceptor from inception to deployment
- Ability to understand and document complex business requirements and create business ready and compatible solutions
- Experience of using JIRA
- Excellent understanding of the change process from design to deployment within a post trade environment
- A good understanding of an Investment Banking control environment
And Any Experience Of These Would Be Really Useful
- Experience of working with Thunderhead and/or Smart DX
- Excellent track record for delivery to timescales and effective management of risks and issues
- Strong transformation background with knowledge of both waterfall and agile development practices
- Strong problem-solving skills using a combination of business and technical knowledge, experience, and judgement to identify available options and clearly set out the way forward
- Show well-developed interpersonal, communication and influencing skills
- Knowledge of DevOps processes and tools E.g. Nexus, GitHub, Jenkins and UrbanCode would be of benefit, as we work closely with our technical teams
- Keeping abreast of key technical developments and innovations within Xceptor and the industry.
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!
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.
