Senior Software Engineer

**End Date**Monday 24 November 2025**Salary Range**£70,929 - £106,394**Flexible Working Options**Hybrid Working, Job Share**Job Description Summary**.**Job Description****Job Title:**Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe **Salary:**£70,929 - £78,810 **Location:**Halifax **Hours:**Full time **Working Pattern**: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Halifax office.We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you**About this opportunity**Our team in the Homes Platform is passionate about creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together smart, hardworking people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment allowing us to deliver at our best. Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of Mortgages in the UK, with over 2 million active Mortgages. We have placed Mortgages at the heart of our strategy to become the best bank for customers.Working in one of our cross-disciplinary teams engineers will have the opportunity to develop their technical knowledge and understanding as well develop, practice and demonstrate the workplace skills and behaviours required for this job role. They will also join and attend Communities of Practice, Engineering Guilds and Working Groups to deliver peer-to-peer mentoring.**What you’ll do*** Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework; provides specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation.* Identifies shortcomings and suggests improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, then delivers a plan for a small element of a change management programme with guidance from a project/programme manager.* Highlights shortcomings and suggests improvements in current IT Security processes, systems and procedures within assigned unit and/or discipline.* Delivers outcomes by managing others and working within established systems.* Sets short term objectives and helps manage the performance of direct reports by working within performance management systems.* Sets short term objectives and helps manage the performance of direct reports by working within performance management systems.* Explores issues and/or needs to establish potential causes, related issues and barriers.* Defines, delivers, and adapts specialized products/services to meet customer needs by selecting the best possible approaches available within established systems.* Analyses specified problems and issues to find the best technical and/or professional solutions.* Develops product specifications while designing testing procedures and standards.**What you’ll need*** Experience in using ISPF, JCL, TWS* Experience in using tools – Endevor, MainView, File-Aid, BMC Cat Mgr for DB2* Experience of designing, building components that form part of a complex multi-platform and multi-tier applications* Vast experience of designing solutions that are configurable, performant and resilient.* Experience of delivering webservices using CICS Experience in using service/API testing tools like SOAPUI/Bruno* Wealth of experience in software development using the IBM Mainframe COBOL programming language using DB2 and CICS**It would be great if you also had*** Good knowledge and experience of JSON webservices* Experience in using modern mainframe development tools like Topaz Workbench, IBM Developer for z/OS, VSCode, zOWE, Git**About working for us**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 under-represented 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance* 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**Apply today and find out more****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.**With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.
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