Who We Are:

Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of digital banking products in the UK. Day after day, more and more customers are accessing their accounts using desktop and mobile with over a billion logons to our digital banking services last year. There couldn't be a better time to join us as we work to become the best bank for customers and continue to build an exciting future for our people.

Consumer Onboarding will give you the opportunity to work in a fun dynamic team who are at the forefront of leading the way for customers & colleagues in transforming & digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank across mobile, branch, telephony and internet banking. The transformation culture Consumer Onboarding lives by is to empower its co-located teams to create dynamic environments using agile methodology, including scrum, ultimately providing outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that drive iterative change across research, buy and servicing needs to market at pace.

Passionate, inspiring and customer-centric, the Lab in which this iOS Engineering role sits is responsible for driving and executing the strategy for how the Bank engages with it's customers in an evolving digital world. We are building two-way messaging capabilities to support customers resolve their queries and transforming the way we personalise our digital experiences, unlocking our rich customer and behavioural data to deliver individual experiences when customers interact with our apps and websites.

Accountabilities:

We're looking for iOS Software Engineers who are excited about writing clean, modular, and well-tested applications. We value easy-to-maintain code, solid engineering practices, and sensible use of frameworks, patterns, and automation.?

We work in a complex business with a high volume of customers and transactions, so a desire to dive into the details and come up with creative solutions is key. There's a wide engineering community at the bank, and we're always keen to hear from people who actively engage with technical groups.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the Strategy and UX/UI Design teams as well as customer organizations to architect, design, and implement solutions.
• Contributing to the technical leadership team's work of driving the technology and future of the platform.
• Explore up-and-coming technologies and software products; seize learning and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
• Support the team by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities

Essential Skills, Qualifications, and Experience required to do the role:

• Practical Swift 5 experience with focus on native unit and UI testing, and designing adaptive UIs using storyboard and autolayout
• Strong knowledge of Apple UI design principles, interface guidelines, patterns, and best practices
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool Git
• Understanding of basic App architectures (i.e. MVVM)
• familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Familiar with Agile principles and methodologies and usage of related tools - JIRA and CI/CD

Desired skills and experience:

• Familiarity with sending and handling push notifications
• Creating and managing frameworks in a modular codebase
• Knowledge of unit testing using Quick/Nimble
• Experience of reviewing other developers' code
• Experience with scripting languages, e.g. ruby
• PromiseKit, Jenkins, Fastlane

If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture focused on making a difference. We're big believers of diversity & inclusion where everyone is welcome.

So what can we offer you in return?

You can expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity.

• Discretionary bonus
• 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

Who We Are:

Lloyds Banking Group is the largest provider of digital banking products in the UK. Day after day, more and more customers are accessing their accounts using desktop and mobile with over a billion logons to our digital banking services last year. There couldn't be a better time to join us as we work to become the best bank for customers and continue to build an exciting future for our people.

Consumer Onboarding will give you the opportunity to work in a fun dynamic team who are at the forefront of leading the way for customers & colleagues in transforming & digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank across mobile, branch, telephony and internet banking. The transformation culture Consumer Onboarding lives by is to empower its co-located teams to create dynamic environments using agile methodology, including scrum, ultimately providing outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that drive iterative change across research, buy and servicing needs to market at pace.

Passionate, inspiring and customer-centric, the Lab in which this iOS Engineering role sits is responsible for driving and executing the strategy for how the Bank engages with it's customers in an evolving digital world. We are building two-way messaging capabilities to support customers resolve their queries and transforming the way we personalise our digital experiences, unlocking our rich customer and behavioural data to deliver individual experiences when customers interact with our apps and websites.

Accountabilities:

We're looking for iOS Software Engineers who are excited about writing clean, modular, and well-tested applications. We value easy-to-maintain code, solid engineering practices, and sensible use of frameworks, patterns, and automation.?

We work in a complex business with a high volume of customers and transactions, so a desire to dive into the details and come up with creative solutions is key. There's a wide engineering community at the bank, and we're always keen to hear from people who actively engage with technical groups.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the Strategy and UX/UI Design teams as well as customer organizations to architect, design, and implement solutions.
• Contributing to the technical leadership team's work of driving the technology and future of the platform.
• Explore up-and-coming technologies and software products; seize learning and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
• Support the team by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities

Essential Skills, Qualifications, and Experience required to do the role:

• Practical Swift 5 experience with focus on native unit and UI testing, and designing adaptive UIs using storyboard and autolayout
• Strong knowledge of Apple UI design principles, interface guidelines, patterns, and best practices
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool Git
• Understanding of basic App architectures (i.e. MVVM)
• familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Familiar with Agile principles and methodologies and usage of related tools - JIRA and CI/CD

Desired skills and experience:

• Familiarity with sending and handling push notifications
• Creating and managing frameworks in a modular codebase
• Knowledge of unit testing using Quick/Nimble
• Experience of reviewing other developers' code
• Experience with scripting languages, e.g. ruby
• PromiseKit, Jenkins, Fastlane

If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture focused on making a difference. We're big believers of diversity & inclusion where everyone is welcome.

So what can we offer you in return?

You can expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity.

• Discretionary bonus
• 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

Company:

We are currently working with a leading financial powerhouse who are looking for a range of Salesforce Engineers for a Brand New program of work to build out a business-critical Salesforce system. This system is going to be the first of its kind.

The Role:

You’ll be focusing on delivering efficient and effective software & application solutions on the Salesforce platform. The role allows you to work closely with team members in designing a variety of end-to-end solutions to improve new and existing systems. The ideal candidate would have experience in Salesforce.com application development, design, configuration and implementation.

Required Skills:

• Experience of design and development within the Salesforce application environment (Apex Classes/Controllers, Triggers, Salesforce Object Query Language, Salesforce Object Search Language, Visual Force, Lightning Components and Salesforce APIs)
• Experience with modern Systems development life cycle tools - Git, JIRA, Artifactory, Jenkins/TeamCity, OpenShift
• Knowledge of Java programming language and/or web development
• Agile – TDD, Propar, Selenium, Pair Programming, Unit Testing
• Enterprise Integration Solutions (Apache Camel, Tibco Enterprise Service Bus, Mulesoft or Informatica) and Web API development

Benefits:

• Extremely competitive base and annual bonus scheme

• Opportunity to influence the design and development of the platform
• Generous holiday allowance
• Will sponsor Tier 2 general visa (If in UK currently)
•  

Please email James.phillips@stanfordblack.com or call 02080579273 for more information.

Job function:

• Information Technology Services
• Engineering
• CRM

Company Industry:

• Financial services
• Information Technology Services
• Banking

Job Type:

• Permanent

Seniority level:

• Associate/AVP level and VP Level

Company:

We are currently working with a leading financial powerhouse who are looking for a range of Salesforce Engineers for a Brand New program of work to build out a business-critical Salesforce system. This system is going to be the first of its kind.

The Role:

You’ll be focusing on delivering efficient and effective software & application solutions on the Salesforce platform. The role allows you to work closely with team members in designing a variety of end-to-end solutions to improve new and existing systems. The ideal candidate would have experience in Salesforce.com application development, design, configuration and implementation.

Required Skills:

• Experience of design and development within the Salesforce application environment (Apex Classes/Controllers, Triggers, Salesforce Object Query Language, Salesforce Object Search Language, Visual Force, Lightning Components and Salesforce APIs)
• Experience with modern Systems development life cycle tools - Git, JIRA, Artifactory, Jenkins/TeamCity, OpenShift
• Knowledge of Java programming language and/or web development
• Agile – TDD, Propar, Selenium, Pair Programming, Unit Testing
• Enterprise Integration Solutions (Apache Camel, Tibco Enterprise Service Bus, Mulesoft or Informatica) and Web API development

Benefits:

• Extremely competitive base and annual bonus scheme

• Opportunity to influence the design and development of the platform
• Generous holiday allowance
• Will sponsor Tier 2 general visa (If in UK currently)
•  

Please email James.phillips@stanfordblack.com or call 02080579273 for more information.

Job function:

• Information Technology Services
• Engineering
• CRM

Company Industry:

• Financial services
• Information Technology Services
• Banking

Job Type:

• Permanent

Seniority level:

• Associate/AVP level and VP Level

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

What we’re building 

We now need Software Developers and Senior Software Developers to support the transformation and the future growth of the business within the Information Services function, so we can simplify our IT architecture by removing our legacy systems and deliver new solutions providing market-leading services for our colleagues, customers and advisers

Job summary

The Software Developer is responsible for the design and development of strategic software solutions, ensuring that requirements are met, best practices are followed and that all software developed is of a high quality and of a robust nature.

The successful .Net Developer will be have the ability to work positively and effectively within teams of mixed abilities and experience. Be fully adaptable within changing and perhaps stressful environments.

They will partner with Project Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Business Analysts and Testers in shared responsibility for project feasibility, requirements, design, development, quality and delivery.

What you’ll do

•Develop software that meets requirements following best practices.
•Build reusable, well-documented, extensible code including unit tests.
•Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, auditing, security and on-going support) are considered during development.
•Identify development risks.
•Participate in technical design and review
•Build components to integrate with existing applications
•Develop black box services/libraries (reusable pieces)
•Design and build Prototypes/Proofs of Concept
•Facilitate automated testing, integration and deployment (TDD, CI and CD)
•Support acceptance testing
•Participate in problem analysis and help resolve technical problems
•Provide regular information on progress to project management and team leaders to allow regulation and reviewing of tasks.
•Participate in mentoring, code reviews and pair programming
•Participate in Agile ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Regular Scrum, Show and Tell, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. Estimate task complexity.
•Contribute to the Scrum Artifacts by keeping the Product and Sprint backlog up to date.
•Complete or contribute to company standard documentation.
•Take part in continuous learning and professional development

 Who you are

•Have significant experience building bespoke applications (including commercial development) with emphasis on Azure PaaS, DevOps, .NET Core, RESTful Web API, C# (Win-Forms, Asp.Net), Git and CI/CD, T-SQL.
•Strong understanding of Object Oriented (OO) Programing, SOLID Principles and Design Patterns
•Experience with distributed systems and architecting strategic solutions (e.g SOA,  Microservices)
•Expert practitioner of TDD, agile development
•Have the ability to work positively and effectively within a team of mixed abilities and experience.
•Good analysis, problem solving and decision making skills.
•Excellent time and self-management through effective planning & prioritisation of tasks
•Experience of the following is desirable: Angular, MVC, Entity Framework, TDD frameworks (e.g NUnit, MSTest), HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JSON/XML

What you’ll like about working here

As a Canada Life colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance, along with a generous pension and bonus scheme. You’ll also receive the support you need with your personal and professional development.

Our focus is to have an engaged, committed and motivated work force, operating in a high performing and collaborative culture. We want to create an organisation that offers opportunities for all our people to develop their skills and talent, and build rewarding careers with us.

Diversity and inclusion

Canada Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our role as an employer of choice is to provide the right environment for talented people to do their best work, by respecting, understanding and valuing individual differences.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

What we’re building 

We now need Software Developers and Senior Software Developers to support the transformation and the future growth of the business within the Information Services function, so we can simplify our IT architecture by removing our legacy systems and deliver new solutions providing market-leading services for our colleagues, customers and advisers

Job summary

The Software Developer is responsible for the design and development of strategic software solutions, ensuring that requirements are met, best practices are followed and that all software developed is of a high quality and of a robust nature.

The successful .Net Developer will be have the ability to work positively and effectively within teams of mixed abilities and experience. Be fully adaptable within changing and perhaps stressful environments.

They will partner with Project Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Business Analysts and Testers in shared responsibility for project feasibility, requirements, design, development, quality and delivery.

What you’ll do

•Develop software that meets requirements following best practices.
•Build reusable, well-documented, extensible code including unit tests.
•Ensure non-functional requirements (performance, auditing, security and on-going support) are considered during development.
•Identify development risks.
•Participate in technical design and review
•Build components to integrate with existing applications
•Develop black box services/libraries (reusable pieces)
•Design and build Prototypes/Proofs of Concept
•Facilitate automated testing, integration and deployment (TDD, CI and CD)
•Support acceptance testing
•Participate in problem analysis and help resolve technical problems
•Provide regular information on progress to project management and team leaders to allow regulation and reviewing of tasks.
•Participate in mentoring, code reviews and pair programming
•Participate in Agile ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Regular Scrum, Show and Tell, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. Estimate task complexity.
•Contribute to the Scrum Artifacts by keeping the Product and Sprint backlog up to date.
•Complete or contribute to company standard documentation.
•Take part in continuous learning and professional development

 Who you are

•Have significant experience building bespoke applications (including commercial development) with emphasis on Azure PaaS, DevOps, .NET Core, RESTful Web API, C# (Win-Forms, Asp.Net), Git and CI/CD, T-SQL.
•Strong understanding of Object Oriented (OO) Programing, SOLID Principles and Design Patterns
•Experience with distributed systems and architecting strategic solutions (e.g SOA,  Microservices)
•Expert practitioner of TDD, agile development
•Have the ability to work positively and effectively within a team of mixed abilities and experience.
•Good analysis, problem solving and decision making skills.
•Excellent time and self-management through effective planning & prioritisation of tasks
•Experience of the following is desirable: Angular, MVC, Entity Framework, TDD frameworks (e.g NUnit, MSTest), HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JSON/XML

What you’ll like about working here

As a Canada Life colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance, along with a generous pension and bonus scheme. You’ll also receive the support you need with your personal and professional development.

Our focus is to have an engaged, committed and motivated work force, operating in a high performing and collaborative culture. We want to create an organisation that offers opportunities for all our people to develop their skills and talent, and build rewarding careers with us.

Diversity and inclusion

Canada Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our role as an employer of choice is to provide the right environment for talented people to do their best work, by respecting, understanding and valuing individual differences.