Total 7 Senior Executive level Information Technology job vacancies in Edinburgh, EH11 4NP

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

SALARY: £68,202 - 75,780 per annum

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Halifax or Leeds

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our offices in either Edinburgh, Halifax or Leeds. Unfortunately, we can't consider applications that can't come into one of the above specified offices at this time.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Identity & Authentication Platform (ID&Auth), which is responsible for delivering capabilities to enable secure client and digital authentication and identity across all the bank's digital channels.

We are looking for a software engineer with experience in back-end development using Java to join our growing engineering team. You'll be responsible for developing high-quality, scalable services as part of our microservices-based architecture, while continuing to build your skills with the latest tools and frameworks.

In this role, you'll get the chance to work with modern technologies, including microservices architectures, cloud-based infrastructure, and containerized environments.

You'll play a key role in developing, testing, and optimizing back-end services that support seamless user experiences and integrate with various front-end and external systems.

What will you be doing with us?

• Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality back-end services using Java and related technologies. 

• Develop containerized applications using Docker and deploy them in Kubernetes environments. 
  Implement Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to create well-structured, domain-focused systems that reflect business requirements. 

• Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD), ensuring that code is thoroughly tested and of the highest quality. 

• Collaborate closely with the Tech Lead and other engineers to define and prioritize back-end services and APIs. 

• Integrate with front-end components and third-party APIs, ensuring smooth and efficient communication between systems. 

• Optimize and refactor existing codebases for performance, scalability, and maintainability. 

• Implement best practices for security, error handling, logging, and monitoring. 
  Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to improve code quality and team performance.

•  Work closely with the DevOps team to deploy and manage services in cloud environments. 
  Continuously evaluate and implement new tools, technologies, and processes to improve the back-end architecture. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on project goals and timelines. 

ABOUT US

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!

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

We're keeping an open mind for the recruitment of this role. However, as a minimum, you'll be able to demonstrate experience in the below skills:

Essential:

Software Engineering experience - Java

• Strong back-end development experience using Java, with expertise in microservices architecture and Spring Boot

• A passion for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code. 

ID & Authorisation

Understanding of authentication/authorization mechanisms, such as OAuth2, JWT, or IAM.

Containerisation

Experience with containerized applications (Docker) and deploying in Kubernetes environments.

Cloud experience

Familiarity with cloud platforms, such as GCP or Azure.

Agile experience

• Experience working in Agile environments, particularly within Scrum teams.

Communication skills

• Solid communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team.

Desirable:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices.

• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and real-world application.

• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools.

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're committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and creativity.

We're actively seeking to build a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and thinking approaches and would like to encourage applications from under-represented groups from candidates of all ethnicities, cultures and identities, and from candidates that identify as neurodiverse.

As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to support you in showcasing your best self; 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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

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An exciting opportunity to join EDINA’s Technical Operations section with responsibility for the management of EDINA’s infrastructure level services. This is a Grade 8, full-time, open-ended position based in central Edinburgh. The role is hybrid, you will report to the Head of Technical Operations and will be on campus a minimum of one day per week.

What the job involves:

Leading the Technical Operations team of software and data engineers, with overall HR responsibility for hiring, coaching and talent management;
Allocate engineering resources ensuring technical skills are in place to deliver EDINA’s projects and services;
Work with EDINA Head of Services to understand service roadmap priorities, plan and ensure delivery of prioritised developments;
Contribute to strategic aims of EDINA as a member of management team, with key responsibility for Technical Operations section;
Ownership of strategies for core business systems e.g. CRM/Help Desk/incident management, business continuity planning, information security;
Manage and have oversight of hardware, application software, middleware and performance of EDINA’s subscription services.


A bit about you:

You will have considerable experience of managing technical teams ensuring development of skills and knowledge and business-driven resource allocation;
You will have good people skills able to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences;
You will be strongly technical, ideally with experience of software development;
You will be experienced in technical product development and product diversification;
You will have a passion for identifying and putting into effect relevant business and development processes.

My client, an Edinburgh based tech for good start-up, is seeking a Python & JavaScript Engineer to join their dynamic team. This innovative company leverages satellite data to monitor and combat climate change, offering an exciting opportunity to contribute to meaningful solutions.

We are looking for a seasoned engineer with experience in data and geospatial processing.

Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership and manage the software aspects of projects
• Maintain and re-factor existing codebases
• Offer training and support
• Procurement, maintenance and disposal of shared hardware and cloud infrastructure

Skills Required:

• Proficient in Python, Pandas, NumPy and ideally Flask
• React or other JavaScript frameworks
• NoSQL databases
• CI/CD pipelines
• Docker

If you are passionate about using technology to make a positive impact, we would love to hear from you!

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer - Payments Services Platform

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: [Full-time]

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh Office.

About this opportunity…

Great opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to work within the International and CHAPS (I&C) Lab specifically in the International Payments Platform (IPP) Engineering team in Edinburgh, to help drive strategy of the critical payments engine. IPP is Lloyds Banking Group's payment engine provided by Finastra's Global Payments Plus - Payment Services (GPP SP) product.

The I&C Lab sits in our Payment Services Platform (PSP), where our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely.

About us…

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you'll do…

• Drawing upon your extensive industry experience, end to end payments knowledge and GPP SP product knowledge to develop your team, enhancing their skills and knowledge by coaching, mentoring and supporting them day to day

• Leading and promoting the continuous improvement journey of the platform to the benefit of our clients, customers and colleagues, driving quicker to market solutions and reduced costs.

• Involved in hands-on development of our applications, supporting them in production, along with other team members and partners

• Refining and defining best practice and standards for our team to work to now and in to our future.

What we need from you…

Primarily, you will need to be a seasoned engineer with commercial, hands-on experience in configuring and working with Finastra's GPP SP product.

In addition, we need you to demonstrate experience in:

• Payments domain - ISO 20022, SWIFT MT Messages standards

• Hands on GPP SP experience - Configuration, End to end payment processing, understanding of different GPP flows - High Value/Mass Pay

• Agile ways of working - JIRA, Confluence

• Performing impact analysis, solutioning and configuration approach

• Defect triaging and identifying fixes.

• Working with a vendor based product.

• Analytical thinking in approaching any issues/challenges.

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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 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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

Join our journey.

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Join us as a Senior Technical Business Analyst

• Take on a critical role supporting the bank to achieve customer advocacy by eliciting and understanding the internal and external technology customer needs
• You'll be working in a vibrant, forward looking team and helping us to shape the future of our business
• As a key member of our team, you’ll enjoy extensive collaboration and can expect great visibility for you and your work
• This is a leadership role, experience of leading teams or significant deliveries is expected along with developing others and setting guidance and best practice
• We offer a range of flexible working arrangements depending on the type of job you do and the type of flexibility you need, you can join us on a part-time or full-time basis

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be accountable for producing business requirements to inform future state design, supporting teams in understanding the requirements and their linkages to the overall domain strategy. In the course of your work, we’ll also look to you to build, manage and maintain a positive working relationship with stakeholders and third party suppliers across multiple franchises and functions.

You’ll be responsible for understanding, challenging and developing our business, customers, strategic goals and how the teams operates in order to support the realisation of desired outcomes by the team.

You’ll also be:

• Capturing, validating and documenting business and system requirements and making sure that they’re in line with key strategic principles
• Interacting with customers, key business and technical stakeholders and the team to obtain and document functional and non-functional needs
• Analysing existing system documentation to summarise existing system functionality as it relates to the work at hand
• Supporting the identification of team priorities based upon feedback from the customers, key stakeholders and the team as well as dealing with uncertainty where requirements or solution are not clear
• A key player in managing and resolving complex problems both within area and at enterprise level

The skills you'll need

You’ll need to hold an appropriate business analyst certification, such as BAX, CPRE and CBAP, provide functional support for the full end to end development cycle including requirements, testing and implementation. Additionally, you’ll have a good understanding of payments, Agile values, principles and methodologies with experience of working within an Agile environment.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of applying business analysis tools and techniques
• Strong knowledge of payments domain ideally with hands-on experience working with different payment schemes from an application, support or operational perspective
• Basic knowledge of databases, interfacing, industry standard syntax JSON or XML is essential, familiarity with public cloud and microservice concepts is beneficial
• Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

Your new company

Hays' client is seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer (Dynamics/PowerApps) to join their Digital team. Over the last few years, they have been delivering a major digital transformation project and this role sees its continuation.
As a core member of the digital team, as well as day-to-day development of business products, this role is expected to take on technical ownership of their Dynamics environment, providing advice to the wider Digital team on options for improvements, and on the future direction for their Dynamics-based systems development and architecture. As a small team, there will be opportunities to learn and engage with other technologies including their web-based systems.


Your new role

At this role level, you will:
* Plan and lead development on sets of related stories
* Have an understanding of the whole system and take responsibility for teaching this to others.
* Work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built.
* Coach and mentor other colleagues
* Operate the production services you build.
* Find ways to improve system robustness, resilience, and stability.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Availability and capacity management.
Manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. Identify capacity issues, and stipulate and instigate the required changes and initiate remedial action.

Line management.
To provide management support which includes responsibility for day-to-day line management of the Software Developer including prioritising and allocation of work activities and providing structured development, performance management, direction, influence, support, and motivation of the post holders.

Development process optimisation.
Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.

Information security.
Understand information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.

Programming and build (software engineering).
Collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications. Use these agreed specifications to design, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.

Prototyping.
See prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. Establish design patterns and iterate them. Know a variety of methods of prototyping and can choose the most appropriate ones.

Service support.
Identify, locate and fix faults.

Systems design.
Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively. Know how to review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.

Systems integration.
Define the integration build. Coordinate build activities across systems and can undertake and support integration testing activities.

User focus.
Collaborate with user researchers and sell or represent users internally. You can explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. Champion user research to focus on all users. Know how to prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.

Development process optimisation (management).
Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.

General Responsibilities
* Designing, Configuring, enhancing, and maintaining Dynamics 365 and PowerApps to meet specific business needs.
* Developing and configuring entities, workflows, and business processes within Dynamics 365.
* Managing CRM data, e.g. Organisations, Contacts, Applications, and others.
* Managing internal users, including security roles and permissions
* General Digital/Technical support from both internal staff and external users.
* Integrating Dynamics 365 with other systems and third-party applications.
* Designing and implementing new functionality. Updating/enhancing existing functionality.
* Documenting configurations, customisations, and development work for reference and future maintenance.


What you'll need to succeed

Essential:

• Microsoft Dynamics 365
  
  • Development environment
  • CRM
• Power Platform
  
  • Power Automate/Flow
  • Canvas & Model-Driven Apps
  • Dataverse
• Coding/Programming (basic/fundamental knowledge)
  
  • SQL
  • JavaScript
  • API Integration experience

Desirable:

• Microsoft Dynamics 365
  
  • Sales module
  • Finance & Operations
• Power Platform
  
  • Power BI
• Coding/Programming (basic/fundamental knowledge)
  
  • C#
• Version Control/Source Control
  
  • DevOps or similar
  • Git or similar
  • Azure experience
• Basic understanding of core web technologies
• Line management experience
  
  Person Specification
  
  Experience/Knowledge
• Proven experience in JIRA.
• Track record collaborating with business analysts and stakeholders to understand project requirements.
• Comfortable engaging with end users from a technical support perspective
• Experience engineering systems with a variety of technologies and architectures allows you to lead the design of systems, choosing appropriate technologies, approaches and embedded security controls.
• Experience building products enables you to work with product and design leadership to identify technical solutions that meet user needs.
• Proven track record of successful line management in previous role(s), including effective team working and performance management

Skills/Attributes

• Effective interpersonal skills including, communication, influencing, presentation.
• Effective project and resource management skills
• Plain English (business) report writing skills
• Highly organised, with ability to self-plan and prioritise workloads.
• Adaptive resilience
  
  What you need to do now

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Join us as a Senior Data Engineer, Financial Crime Technology

• This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Senior Data Engineer within Financial Crime Technology
• You’ll be working with new and innovative technology to deliver high impact solutions
• Hone your existing data engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role

What you'll do

You’ll apply widely agreed data software engineering principles and methodologies to design, develop, test and maintain applications and services to achieve the stated business and technology goals within required budgets and timelines. We’ll also look to you to oversee the quality of work, making sure that it meets the technical standards for all services output.

You’ll also:

• Design and develop new reusable services and APIs for use across the bank
• Design and develop data components that are amenable for a greater automation of build, release testing and deployment process on all environments
• Drive the reuse and sharing of platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams
• Deliver data components to enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services
• Write unit and integration tests, in automated test environments to ensure code quality

The skills you'll need

You’ll need a strong background in data engineering, software design or database design and architecture, as well as extensive experience of developing in a micro-services architecture. You should also have development experience in a programming language, experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling, and a background of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, availability and performance.

You’ll also need:

• Proven track record of solving business and technical problems using data in micro-service architecture
• Extensive experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
• Knowledge of the key phases of software delivery lifecycle and established software development methodologies
• Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales
• An understanding of data engineering tools including Hadoop, streamSets, MongoDB, postGresDB, REST and python
• The ability to understand and support, modify and maintain systems and code developed by other engineering teams