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.

Your Key Responsibilities in this role will be:

• Developing quality software to meet the changing business needs as well as contributing to the technology / development strategy of the Performance and Risk function
• Analysing business technology problems and requirements with the view to developing robust, scalable solutions
• Facilitating technology knowledge-share across the team and mentoring junior technical staff

The most successful applicant will have:

• Extensive experience as a Developer within the Fund / Investment Management industry (Buy-Side)
• Experience of working on Performance and Investment Risk projects
• Strong experience with C#.NET / Powershell / Bootstrap / Javascript
• Clear proven ability to regularly work alongside and communicate with senior stakeholders

if your profile is a match and for more information, please apply with your most up to date CV in the first instance

Your Key Responsibilities in this role will be:

• Developing quality software to meet the changing business needs as well as contributing to the technology / development strategy of the Performance and Risk function
• Analysing business technology problems and requirements with the view to developing robust, scalable solutions
• Facilitating technology knowledge-share across the team and mentoring junior technical staff

The most successful applicant will have:

• Extensive experience as a Developer within the Fund / Investment Management industry (Buy-Side)
• Experience of working on Performance and Investment Risk projects
• Strong experience with C#.NET / Powershell / Bootstrap / Javascript
• Clear proven ability to regularly work alongside and communicate with senior stakeholders

if your profile is a match and for more information, please apply with your most up to date CV in the first instance

A global investment bank are looking for a senior business support developer who will be responsible for the day to day support of the bank's Enterprise Data Management System.

Key Responsibilities

- Management of the service delivery process e.g. change request management, change approval board

- Manage of Incident, Problem and Change management to successful conclusion

- Management and development of the Disaster Recovery process

- Work closely with vendor to raise/track issues and implement fixes in production

- Provide regular updates to business owners on progress and expected resolution of production issues

Required Skills

- Programming language: C#, JavaScript, Shell scripting

- Web technologies: ASP.NET MVC

- DB Technology: SQL, Oracle

- Operating Systems: Windows, Unix

- Jira, ControlM (Desirable)

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

BY APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE WHICH TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT GOVERN YOUR USE OF MORGAN MCKINLEY SERVICES.

A global investment bank are looking for a senior business support developer who will be responsible for the day to day support of the bank's Enterprise Data Management System.

Key Responsibilities

- Management of the service delivery process e.g. change request management, change approval board

- Manage of Incident, Problem and Change management to successful conclusion

- Management and development of the Disaster Recovery process

- Work closely with vendor to raise/track issues and implement fixes in production

- Provide regular updates to business owners on progress and expected resolution of production issues

Required Skills

- Programming language: C#, JavaScript, Shell scripting

- Web technologies: ASP.NET MVC

- DB Technology: SQL, Oracle

- Operating Systems: Windows, Unix

- Jira, ControlM (Desirable)

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.

BY APPLYING FOR THIS ROLE YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR TERMS OF SERVICE WHICH TOGETHER WITH OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT GOVERN YOUR USE OF MORGAN MCKINLEY SERVICES.

Are you interested in being a founding member of a technology team developing internal systems for a rapidly growing energy supply company?

A fast-growing B2B Energy Supply Company is looking for a C# Developer to expand their technology team and assist with their next big stage of growth.

Our client is looking for candidates that want to take a unique opportunity to work on a green field project that will aid the next huge stage of development for the company.

The opportunity for accelerated career growth with this company is great because of the rapidly growing nature of the business.

Required Skills:

• Experience with MVC/ASP.NET, C#, XML, XSL
• Experience with Web API using REST
• Experience with microservices, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with MS SQL Server
• Experience with new and emerging technologies
• Experience within the energy market would be preferable but is not essential

Benefits:

• Work alongside a very experienced and skilled team of developers
• Be a founding member of the technology team developing all internal systems and tools
• Develop your skills working with very large datasets and leading technologies
• Develop your knowledge of the UK energy supply market across the I&C customer segments
• 25 day's annual leave
• Pension

Are you interested in being a founding member of a technology team developing internal systems for a rapidly growing energy supply company?

A fast-growing B2B Energy Supply Company is looking for a C# Developer to expand their technology team and assist with their next big stage of growth.

Our client is looking for candidates that want to take a unique opportunity to work on a green field project that will aid the next huge stage of development for the company.

The opportunity for accelerated career growth with this company is great because of the rapidly growing nature of the business.

Required Skills:

• Experience with MVC/ASP.NET, C#, XML, XSL
• Experience with Web API using REST
• Experience with microservices, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with MS SQL Server
• Experience with new and emerging technologies
• Experience within the energy market would be preferable but is not essential

Benefits:

• Work alongside a very experienced and skilled team of developers
• Be a founding member of the technology team developing all internal systems and tools
• Develop your skills working with very large datasets and leading technologies
• Develop your knowledge of the UK energy supply market across the I&C customer segments
• 25 day's annual leave
• Pension

Software Engineering Senior Manager (DevOps Team, Finance Systems)

Company: Lloyds Banking Group

Location: Bristol - Canons house, BS1 5LL

Salary: £65,700 to £87,600 base salary, plus significant 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?

This senior management role sits within the Software Engineering team in our Group Transformation division, within the Finance Value Stream and will focus on work in our General Ledger's LAB. You would support the delivery of the high quality customer driven software development using either C#.NET or Java. Team leading would involve coaching, continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting your team.

Our software development is focused around General Ledger systems like SAP or Oracle for example. Roughly this role would be 30% hands on coding and 70% management.

What would you get involved with?

As our mission is promote the adoption of modern software engineering practices, specifically accelerating adoption of modern engineering practices: DevOps, Continuous Improvement/Continuous Development, Cloud First, Agile, etc...

You would work in cross-disciplinary teams and act as advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting your teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing yourself with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team.

What do you need to be considered for this job?

Generally, you are comfortable in a hands-on technical leadership role, blending both solid leadership experience and technical expertise.

We welcome people from a range of role and industry backgrounds but do need to see the following as a minimum for consideration, 1) 5 years + Software Engineering background with experience in building large scale applications with at least one of the following languages: Java or C#.NET, 2) technical leadership experience and desire to help coach and mentor staff, 3) great interpersonal skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people, 4) Passionate about driving a true modern DevOps culture, 5) good understanding and/or experience of big data/data management.

Oh, and if you have any prior experience working within a finance function or with general ledger systems that would be handy, but please apply if you don't!

Who are the General Ledger Software Development Team?

Our team sits within the Group Transformation division, in the Finance Value Stream, specifically within the General Ledger's LAB area of the bank. You will be responsible for supporting a vast and complex Finance Ledger landscape including the new Oracle Fusion (Cloud hosted ledger) as well as the existing/legacy ledgers and sub-ledgers. In addition to this, the team also supports the Integrity application for Finance attestation, the Generic Interface Processes as well as the Data Reference Management tool.

We're a group of people pulled together by our passion for coding, experimenting, designing and learning everything that makes us better engineers.

Lloyds Banking Group vision is to be the best bank for customer and to realize it we have the mission to make it the best bank for Engineers!

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.

Our engineering community in Bristol is growing rapidly, which will naturally present lots of career opportunities.

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.

Together we make it possible.

Software Engineering Senior Manager (DevOps Team, Finance Systems)

Company: Lloyds Banking Group

Location: Bristol - Canons house, BS1 5LL

Salary: £65,700 to £87,600 base salary, plus significant 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?

This senior management role sits within the Software Engineering team in our Group Transformation division, within the Finance Value Stream and will focus on work in our General Ledger's LAB. You would support the delivery of the high quality customer driven software development using either C#.NET or Java. Team leading would involve coaching, continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting your team.

Our software development is focused around General Ledger systems like SAP or Oracle for example. Roughly this role would be 30% hands on coding and 70% management.

What would you get involved with?

As our mission is promote the adoption of modern software engineering practices, specifically accelerating adoption of modern engineering practices: DevOps, Continuous Improvement/Continuous Development, Cloud First, Agile, etc...

You would work in cross-disciplinary teams and act as advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting your teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing yourself with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team.

What do you need to be considered for this job?

Generally, you are comfortable in a hands-on technical leadership role, blending both solid leadership experience and technical expertise.

We welcome people from a range of role and industry backgrounds but do need to see the following as a minimum for consideration, 1) 5 years + Software Engineering background with experience in building large scale applications with at least one of the following languages: Java or C#.NET, 2) technical leadership experience and desire to help coach and mentor staff, 3) great interpersonal skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people, 4) Passionate about driving a true modern DevOps culture, 5) good understanding and/or experience of big data/data management.

Oh, and if you have any prior experience working within a finance function or with general ledger systems that would be handy, but please apply if you don't!

Who are the General Ledger Software Development Team?

Our team sits within the Group Transformation division, in the Finance Value Stream, specifically within the General Ledger's LAB area of the bank. You will be responsible for supporting a vast and complex Finance Ledger landscape including the new Oracle Fusion (Cloud hosted ledger) as well as the existing/legacy ledgers and sub-ledgers. In addition to this, the team also supports the Integrity application for Finance attestation, the Generic Interface Processes as well as the Data Reference Management tool.

We're a group of people pulled together by our passion for coding, experimenting, designing and learning everything that makes us better engineers.

Lloyds Banking Group vision is to be the best bank for customer and to realize it we have the mission to make it the best bank for Engineers!

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.

Our engineering community in Bristol is growing rapidly, which will naturally present lots of career opportunities.

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.

Together we make it possible.