Technical Lead (Payments)

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Our vision is to make Lloyds Banking Group the best bank for customers. As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and to put customers at the heart of everything we do. To achieve this, we also need to be the best bank for our colleagues and our communities - and we have a clear strategy in place to make this a reality. We are building on our many strengths: iconic brands, strong heritages and great people. To unlock the great potential in our business, we are becoming more efficient, more transparent, and more responsive to customers. Already the UK's largest community investor, we are giving even more back. Above all, we are putting customers first.

Lloyds Banking Group is the team behind some of the UK's leading financial services brands. Working together, we're putting people first. Across a broad and comprehensive range of products and services, we're making banking simpler, more accessible and more effective for everyone. We aim to be the best bank for customers and communities - and for our people. Join us, and you'll find your professional fulfilment is always a priority.

Operating within our IT area, Payment Systems is responsible for all our cards & payments software development, support and delivery. This is a rapidly changing and dynamic technical environment with robust programmes in place to keep pace with the change whilst simultaneously increasing capability across the function for our colleagues and partners.

We are looking for a Technical Lead to work on a number of critical payments systems with technical leadership skills - you will work collaboratively with business, architectural & design and technical teams to produce feasible design solutions. Further to that you will oversee the workload of 5 SMEs working on a variety projects which use these critical applications.

Your current expertise coupled with knowledge of the platform will allow you to confidently own application roadmaps, review project documentation and provide support for development and testing of middleware applications. Good organisational ability will help you to assist in work estimation using work breakdown structures as well as providing regular status reports to the leads and management teams. A communicator and people person you will also work with the bank's partners and third party vendors to implement newer application versions.

This role is for you if you are a specialist in one or more of the below.

- Unix

- Oracle

Ideally, you would also have some knowledge of the below.

- Java

- IBM Websphere Application Server

- IBM Websphere Message Queue

- Rational Architect

In addition, you have experience of working in payments, the end to end software development lifecycle, and providing live support.

In return, you'll enjoy the advantage of a comprehensive, award-winning benefits package. What's more, it's been designed to be tailored by you. We offer you the flexibility to choose cash, or take your pick from all kinds of benefits, including a contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance and retail discounts. Naturally, you'll also benefit from a range of excellent opportunities for training and development.

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