Technical Application Engineer


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Lloyds Banking Group

Listed on

11th August 2022

Location

Edinburgh

Salary/Rate

£32600 - £41000

Type

Permanent

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Lloyds Banking Group are transforming the way we do Engineering. We've created "LBG Labs" and we're building multi-functional, co-located teams giving them freedom to bring technology to the forefront of our business. This will help us create new, and improve existing, products and services to help us really make a difference to our customers.

Want to know more?

A Lab is a co-located team who work together on key projects to deliver value at pace by designing services that people find useful, easy and engaging to use. Typically, a Lab has a strong focus on complex problem solving in an agile environment where engineers are free to experiment and create innovative products which will transform the way our customers engage with us.

Our Insurance and Wealth Labs are focused on improving support to our customers throughout their financial lives, with clear, straightforward customer journeys, helping empower them to make the right decisions on their long-term Saving, Investment & Retirement needs. Within Insurance and Wealth, SWWS (Scottish Widows Workplace Savings) are the business team who operate the Corporate Pensions offering which these applications underpin, supporting both the corporate clients (Employers) and the end user pension members (Employees)

About the role:

We are a multi-disciplined Application Service and Change team and have a great career opportunity for a customer oriented Service Engineer.

Your main focus would be to help support the SWWS applications to ensure smooth running of the applications. As a technical SME you will champion the stable operation of our applications, identify and deliver opportunities to improve service, and ensure the appropriate technical rigor in the delivery of change initiatives to our multilayer, multi-vendor platform stack.

Within our distributed stack you will work with our Engineering teams, Engineering Leads and Product Owners, to ensure our applications meet the needs of our customers and that system changes are delivered safely. Longer term you will identify, understand and analyse trends to reduce the number of incidents and risks.

Here's where you'll make a difference:

You'll play a key role in maintaining and advancing our system

Lead production incident investigation and resolution which will include who/when to engage wider teams

Identifying and implementing service optimisations

Informing and shaping the delivery and testing of system enhancements

What we need from you:

Experienced Application SME/Specialist

Strong analytical skills all to act as technical SME

Previous facilitation experience, coordinating multiple teams including third parties.

A good understanding of Code and configuration management practices

Demonstrate experience and understanding of a broad range of technologies including Unix/RHEL, JVM, WebSphere, SQL Server D/B, log extraction and interpretation, SSL/TLS/MASSL, batch scripting (eg. FTP scripting), Java, JS, Angular

Previous experience with tools including; Dynatrace, UrbanCode Deploy, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Office too

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

Together we'll make it possible...

So what can we offer you in return?

Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity.

You'll also receive a package that includes

Discretionary bonus

Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits or simply take the cash

Private Medical Insurance

Pension, where we'll give up to a max of 15%

Share plans

30 days holiday (plus Public)

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we'd love to hear from you...

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