Senior Software Engineer (CDS)

Come and join our team in Customer Data Services and be ready to develop and learn at pace whilst becoming a strong team player and being able to collaborate and mentor peers.

Our purpose is to master customer data by creating, extending, and maintaining access to high-quality, secure customer data for the Group, ensuring it serves as a robust foundation for operational excellence and customer engagement. We're committed to providing Customer Data as a Service, delivering critical data for operational and customer use, and empowering insights and analytics to drive informed decision-making and strategic growth.

What you'll be doing

We want engineers able to pose deep questions, craft and explain reliable solutions, work in short iterative cycles with different techniques, and champion agility, quality, culture, and sustainability. Having the ability to listen, reflect and respect the view of others is key in this role and having ability to voice your perspective without being strongly tied to it.

Within Customer Data Services we manage Reference, product and interpersonal data across the organisation. Our aim is to provide access for the right reasons while maintaining confidentiality. We focus on delivering an outstanding engineering experience built on performance, resilience, and integrity.

The systems we support form the foundation of nearly all activities. We uphold these systems to the highest standard, aiming to take ownership for the operational support 24/7 through SRE principles.

Why join us?

We're transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey., Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

• Knowledge of below, but please do not worry if you don't have all, we can work with you to build your skills
• Direct Software Engineering background creating extensive Java applications with DevOps Experienced with diverse tools, techniques, and platforms. Emphasizes verifying functionality and accuracy
• Experience in developing with Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs, Spring boot, JSON, Microservices, Kafka, and Postgres
• Solid grasp of architecture and cloud-native principles along with algorithms and data structures
• Experience handling container environments, specifically Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm (e.g., GCP, Azure, AWS), preferably GCP
• Experienced in automating CI/CD using tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker

And any experience of these would be great

• Experience with MDM, reference data, IBM product master and Mainframe
• Awareness of Agile values and principles.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

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

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.