Payments Micro Services Software Engineer

Job Title- Payments Micro Services Software Engineer

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 Payment Micro services Team is an Agile based delivery

team, building key strategic micro services for the Payments estate,

supporting a number of Category A services for the organisation.

We're looking for an experienced Software Engineer who can work within a

dynamic team, 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.

About the role:

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 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

 * 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:

 * 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 Payments schemes and services

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

 * Identification and ownership of Operational Risks to Risk Manager

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.

You'll also receive a package that includes

•Discretionary bonus between 15% of base pay

•Cash sum of 4% 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