Software Engineer FPS and BACS Micro services Systems Designer

Job Title: Software Engineer - FPS and BACS Micro services Systems Designer

Main duties and responsibilities of the role 

Job Description

As the Bank moves to building out a strategic roadmap, both from an

application infrastructure and tooling, Payments Fraud and Financial Crime

Value Stream are embracing this and building capability to do enable this

transformation. The Straight Through Payment (STP) Microservices Team is an

Agile based delivery team, building key strategic microservices for the

Payments estate, supporting a number of Category A services for the

organisation.

As part of STP micro services team with your knowledge of UK payments

schemes (FPS and BACS) you will work to build, test, release and support

micro services, using a DevOps tool chain.

Want to know more?

You'll be hands on taking on a technical engineering role, supporting the

building, developing and maintaining of a highly productive software

engineering team instilled with the ethos of delivering high quality

solutions. You'll take ownership for backlog items, quality of build and

test and ensure error free deployments into the Production estate, seeking

methods (tooling / reviews) to ensure high standards and are in line with

expectations for High Availability, Group Critical solutions and will

contribute to the support of the new platform.

You will also be providing production support to existing Faster Payments

and BACS service in the bank along with new service being added as micro

services.

About the role:

You'll have a proven track record of working and delivering solutions

involving UK payments schemes (Faster Payments and BACS). You'll also have a

proven track record in Software Engineering, integration and introduction of

3rd Party packages/tools, coupled with solution configuration, message

transformation and rules-based engineering into a production environment.

You'll have strong interpersonal skills, proven development and support

experience with a thirst for developing self and mentoring colleagues to

maximise their potential.

So what will you be doing for us?

•Support the design and development of Payments solutions.

•Support the leadership team in setting the strategic direction for

how new DevOps tools, methods and standards are deployed across the platform

•Ensure that software is managed and configured/developed in a way

which is consistent with - and exploits where possible - the collective

frameworks, patterns and standard methodologies that exist across the wider

Engineering community

•Foster sharing knowledge within your team and the wider platform to

provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may

exist, and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate

•Delivery of change, within and outside of value stream

•Support to the Scrum Master and Product Owner in development of the

feature team capability

•Capable of co-ordinating a small team of 10+ colleagues and partners

and providing technical direction

•Engineering Leadership on 3rd Party relationships with partner,

industry and software suppliers

•Mentor and develop software engineers, providing clear and

constructive feedback and creating opportunities for learning and growth

Additional information

This role is a London based but then you'll be expected to undertake some

occasional travel depending on team demands.

What we need from you – Essential:

•5+ years of experience of working on Faster payments and BACS

solution. Good understanding of UK payments domain.

•Strong Software Engineering including a support and service

background

•Experience of agile, dev ops and non-agile development practices;

automated build, continuous integration, code quality metrics, configuration

management, etc.

•Technical and practical usage skills in Urban Code, Jenkins,

Springboot, MQ, Websphere, Unix, Java, WAS and Jira/Confluence

•Experience of working in an Agile/feature team is also an advantage

•Experience of Live/Production support

Desirable:

▪ Understand and direct how components and services are developed,

tested and progressed within their Engineering discipline.

▪ Deliver business value through sound and fully rounded engineering

methods and principles, ensuring platforms and software are built

consistently with relevant patterns and practices.

▪ Accountable for patterns and practices to be communicated across

wider Engineering Community.

▪ Understand and ensure industry standard methodologies are

understood by Engineering Community and related business functions.

▪ Develop own technical domain knowledge and take responsibility for

own development journey and those of more junior Engineers.

▪ Typically operates in more complex environments.

If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture focused on

making a difference.

Together we'll make it possible...

Location of the role: 33 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HZ

So what can we offer you in return?

Whatever your dream, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal

development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity.

We're also passionate about diversity and providing genuine equal

opportunities...

Full remuneration package

 * Salary - £61,076 - £67,504 pa (NOT THE £56,727.00 - £81,939.00 QUOTED

ABOVE) + Benefits

 * Discretionary bonus of 15% of base pay

 * Cash sum of 4% salary 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 13%

 * Share plans

 * 30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Are you passionate about joining us? Apply today, we’d love to hear

from you...

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a

colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and

communities.

Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future,

whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have

opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to

inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a

real difference, together.

As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation,

colleagues based in the Islands are required to be exclusively dedicated to

the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues

who are based in the Islands would not be able to undertake roles for the

Ring Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider

relocation when applying for roles.