Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe

Within the mortgages team at Lloyds Banking Group, we're committed to broadening access to home ownership, supporting customers during their home owning journey and reducing the carbon emissions from our housing stock. Our mortgage labs are passionate about improving the experience and support of our customers throughout their home purchase journey and the subsequent lifetime of their mortgage whether bought directly from one of our UK wide brands or via an external broker. As part of one of our cross-disciplinary teams of engineers you'll use your knowledge and expertise in a variety of methodologies and toolsets to develop innovative end user solutions to meet customer needs within their home buying journey. Alongside this we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology and our approaches are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation. What you'll do

• You'll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from an environment that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.
• You'll have the opportunity to develop and adopt exciting new technologies and become an active member of Communities of Practice, engineering guilds and working groups across the bank.
• You'll play a key role in the future developments of our sales journeys across multiple channels - designing, building, testing and deploying software to deliver for our customers and colleagues.
• Use new and innovative technologies whilst also harnessing and maintaining existing systems that are currently the engine room of our platform.
• Alongside others, you'll engineer business requirements into technical solutions to improve the customer and colleague experience throughout our home buying experience.
• You'll bring a dynamism, showing you're an adaptable individual, able to learn and use new skills in varying circumstances.
• You'll contribute to a robust team environment and continuously improve what we do and how we do it.
  
  Wealth of experience in software development using the IBM Mainframe COBOL programming language using DB2 and CICS
• Experience in using ISPF, JCL, TWS
• Experience in using tools - Endevor, MainView, File-Aid, BMC Cat Mgr for DB2
• Good knowledge and experience of SOAP using XML and JSON webservices
• Experience of delivering webservices using CICS
• Experience in using modern mainframe development tools like Topaz Workbench, IBM Developer for z/OS, VSCode, zOWE, Git
• Experience in using service/API testing tools like SOAPUI/Postman
• Knowledge of automation tools like Jenkins, UCD
• Vast experience of designing solutions that are configurable, performant and resilient.
• Good knowledge of DevOps and ability to implement them on Mainframe platform
  
  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!, 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.
• 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.