Job Description

Join us as a Software Engineer This is an opportunity for a technically minded individual to join us as a Software Engineer You ll be supporting the Digital X Engineering population to develop software in a consistent and common way Hone your existing software engineering skills and advance your career in this critical role What youll doWorking in a permanent feature team, you ll be developing knowledge of aspects of the associated platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure. You ll also be liaising with principal engineers, architects in the domain and other key stakeholders to understand how the platform works and how it supports business objectives. Working as part of the Engineering Practice team along with liaising with other teams across Enterprise Engineering and CTO, you ll be focused on defining how the testing lifecycle and governance is integrated into the software development lifecycle. This will be part of defining how our engineers can use a fully automated pipeline to drive their software lifecycle. We ll look to you to provide guidance to Engineering Practice resources on how they can integrate with the Gitlab pipeline and be part of the team ensuring that engineers across Digital X can take full advantage of the pipeline. You ll also be: Applying Agile methods to the development of software on the backlog Designing and developing software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, using executable patterns Supporting the production of best practices and standards using your experience Showcasing the standards and practices to engineers in a variety of formats including webinars, presentations and blogs Supporting the rest of Engineering Practice in driving the agenda for how governance and automation can simplify the engineering cycle Producing resilient and long-lived software and acting flexibly to cope with future needs Delivering intentional architecture and formulating emergent design through innovative ideas, experimentation and prototyping The skills youll needWe re looking for someone with strong full stack experience in software design and implementation, including being able to exploit programming languages to solve complex problems. You ll also need to be capable of complex requirements analysis capture and validation against and with business and systems requirements. You ll need to be comfortable presenting technical solutions in a variety of different formats. Additionally, you ll demonstrate: Experience of leading the implementation of programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance Sound collaboration skills with the ability to work with business teams to produce pragmatic solutions that work for the business Experience of information security policies and practices within the financial sector Strong stakeholder management skills and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple way Experience of software delivery Hours 45 Job Posting Closing Date: 01/06/2025