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.

Salary & Benefits:

£54,342 to £60,380 salary, plus annual personal bonus, 13% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and home working opportunities. Working for Lloyds is great!

Want a Summary of the Role?
Your Full Stack Web Engineering role sits within our Group Analytics (GA) team in the Chief Data Office (CDO). Group Analytics is the hub for analytics and Business Intelligence within the Group. You will be helping us build an innovative self-service reporting hub - the "BI Marketplace" (think Amazon for BI) which will help the business unlock the potential of data and analytics across Lloyds Banking Group.

So what am I responsible for as Web Engineer?

This is a new role for the Group Analytics team so you will have the opportunity to establish the development patterns and principles of the team in line with the Group's development methodologies. You will be responsible for building the BI Marketplace which is a web application that provides a single point to consume data, reporting and analytics for all the group.

What experience, skills and knowledge will I need to do this role?

You will be an experienced full stack web developer who is comfortable developing both the front and back end of web applications in an agile environment. We are really flexible on specific skills but any experience of integrating Tableau and Power BI into web applications using their respective API's would be great. Knowledge of a modern web framework such as Django, Flask, React.JS or Angular would be preferred as would knowledge of containerisation (e.g. Docker).

This would be a great role if you……

• Are passionate about web development and user experience
• Understand the value of data and analytics
• Would like a role where you skills are valued in a supportive environment

Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and we have a clear strategy to put customers first and achieve our vision of being the best bank for our customers.

We're committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve - where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

What support will I get and how will my career grow?

As a multi-brand, multi-channel business, we have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.

GA also follows a clear set of principles which promote a positive, collaborative and consistent culture making it a diverse, inspiring and supportive place to work.

Together we make it possible.

Salary & Benefits:

£54,342 to £60,380 salary, plus annual personal bonus, 13% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and home working opportunities. Working for Lloyds is great!

Want a Summary of the Role?
Your Full Stack Web Engineering role sits within our Group Analytics (GA) team in the Chief Data Office (CDO). Group Analytics is the hub for analytics and Business Intelligence within the Group. You will be helping us build an innovative self-service reporting hub - the "BI Marketplace" (think Amazon for BI) which will help the business unlock the potential of data and analytics across Lloyds Banking Group.

So what am I responsible for as Web Engineer?

This is a new role for the Group Analytics team so you will have the opportunity to establish the development patterns and principles of the team in line with the Group's development methodologies. You will be responsible for building the BI Marketplace which is a web application that provides a single point to consume data, reporting and analytics for all the group.

What experience, skills and knowledge will I need to do this role?

You will be an experienced full stack web developer who is comfortable developing both the front and back end of web applications in an agile environment. We are really flexible on specific skills but any experience of integrating Tableau and Power BI into web applications using their respective API's would be great. Knowledge of a modern web framework such as Django, Flask, React.JS or Angular would be preferred as would knowledge of containerisation (e.g. Docker).

This would be a great role if you……

• Are passionate about web development and user experience
• Understand the value of data and analytics
• Would like a role where you skills are valued in a supportive environment

Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and we have a clear strategy to put customers first and achieve our vision of being the best bank for our customers.

We're committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve - where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

What support will I get and how will my career grow?

As a multi-brand, multi-channel business, we have the scale and breadth to provide you with a diverse range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.

GA also follows a clear set of principles which promote a positive, collaborative and consistent culture making it a diverse, inspiring and supportive place to work.

Together we make it possible.