Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer (SQL)

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is GBP45,954 - GBP51,060

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: 35 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

Our aim is to build a forward-thinking engineering capability that supports the business in delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for customers. Our Software Engineers ensure the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect.

This role is within the Stockbroking Lab which supports Halifax Share Dealing LTD (HSDL) on a range of initiatives using agile tools and methodologies to deliver iterative change safely for the Group and our customers.

Within the lab there are six feature teams working on initiatives through route to live. You'll be placed into one of these teams. Working collaboratively with the Customer Journey Manager, Product Owner, Technical Delivery Manager, and other team members you'll be delivering a variety of initiatives across the platform. As an engineer you'll need to be a proficient developer and be able to turn requirements into stories when delivering change across the application estate. You'll manage and merge changes, alongside the other feature teams, as we work towards releasing the changes into production and deliver value to our customers.

What does an average week look like?

• Agile ceremonies such as the daily team Synchronisation, backlog planning and prioritisation sessions and retrospectives

• Collectively come together daily on Lab Synchronisation meeting to update on progress and issues/blockers

• Writing code for Oracle and SQL server databases

• Supporting build and test, supporting live planning and supporting any service incidents

• Productionising code via our DevOps pipeline

• Using your problem-solving skills to come up with innovative solutions!

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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. If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, just let us know.

What you'll need

• Proficiency in PL/SQL programming language is essential. Strong understanding of SQL and query performance tuning is a must

• Experience with shell scripting

• Experience in development tools such as Toad, SQL Developer and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

• Experience with Microsoft DBMS.

• Strong problem-solving skills to identify and resolve issues related to code and database performance.

• Experience in managing source code with GitHub.

• Experience in DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Urban Code and SonarQube)

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Developing in Microsoft technologies (.NET and ASP) would be beneficial.

• Understanding of agile tools to manage feature team activity (JIRA and Confluence)

• Able to understand business requirements and replay them into technical stories and see these through delivery as well as giving updates to non-technical parties.

• Be comfortable taking on tasks outside your engineering discipline to benefit your team and keep delivery on track.

• Happy to support the on-call rota for applications within your area of technical expertise.

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 underrepresented 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

• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.