End Date

Friday 10 January 2025

Salary Range

£62,874 - £69,860

Flexible Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced Hours

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

Job Title: Configuration Engineer
Salary: £62,874  - £69,860
Location: Bristol
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 Bristol office.

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!

About this opportunity

Become a part of Commercial Lending for Lloyds Banking Group as a Configuration Engineer and seize a unique chance to influence the future of the Commercial Cards business.

We're looking for a Configuration Engineer to drive our ambitions to grow our Commercial Cards business, focus on improving the client experience, and change how we work. Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank (among others).

Are you ready to be part of the journey? Our culture brings together experienced, hardworking, people from a diverse set of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working, always learning and improving ourselves and sharing knowledge.

What you'll do

Work as part of an agile feature teams to design, build and deliver incremental improvements for our clients and gather customer feedback.

Learn the Cards processing platforms, high-level architecture, data architecture, and the configuration capabilities.

Define, develop and test configuration changes and manage the release process.  Implement robust change management processes that adhere to IT security principles.

Test configuration changes and new platform releases, leveraging and developing test automation tooling.

Learn and apply IT policies, such as data compliance and controls

Analyse platform data and lead on implementing improvements.

Collaborate with vendors to raise system issues and manage the resolution to conclusion, always looking for opportunities to improve ways of working.

Incident and problem management to continuously improve product performance.

What you’ll need

We're a team, always learning and developing, here are the skills we aim to develop and improve on which are all based on having a passion and enthusiasm for learning new skills:

Good understanding of software systems and configuration.

Ability to code basic SQL to analyse data and investigate issues.

Basic skills in a software language and interest to learn more (preferably node.js/typescript).

Experience with agile delivery methods, including planning, tracking, and problem-solving.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to make decisions efficiently, ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels.

Experience in public cloud-based delivery, infrastructure delivery, and application migrations.

Knowledge of Cards processing platforms is highly desirable (preferably Fiserv Vision+ or TSYS TS2).

Knowledge of VISA payments is desirable

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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? 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