Middleware Engineer (Data Resilience)

JOB TITLE:   Middleware Engineer (Data Resilience)

SALARY: £82,000pa - £100,000pa plus the benefits listed below

LOCATION: London

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

Data is at the heart of Lloyds Banking Group; enabling the delivery of innovative financial services to our 26 million customers and help Britain prosper. A resilient organisation instils confidence and trust with customers, staff and regulators, reduces risk and protects Group from regulatory censure and fines. Disruptions are inevitable and regulators expect Financial Institutions to take the necessary steps to protect data and recover from severe but plausible data loss or corruption events, such as a cyber-attack, to meet IBS impact tolerance thresholds. 

Data Resilience purpose is to proactively protect the integrity, availability, and security of our data to mitigate the risk of disruption to the Group’s Important Business Services. 

As the Data Resilience Middleware Technical Lead, you'll focus on mapping and assuring the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL), including transfer mechanisms, capabilities of each critical asset required to fulfil the Group’s Important Business Services. This will safeguard our critical data and associated assets from vulnerabilities and threats that could lead to a compromise of the integrity and availability leading to customer harm. The role requires bold individuals with a proactive, can-do attitude and solution-oriented approach to deliver at pace.

Key Responsibilities

• Support platform, infrastructure and middleware teams to deliver resilient solutions for IBS critical assets

• Provide input and direction on middleware and ETL assessments to identify gaps that could lead to IBS Impact Tolerance thresholds being breached.

• Develop initiatives and guidance for Operational Resilience and change frameworks.

• Oversee the development of data movement controls and collaborate with platform teams and Group Chief Operating Office to remediate security gaps.

• Lead the definition of IBS critical batch to the workload scheduler critical path handler

• Ensure Data Resilience Information Asset Register (IAR) for middleware components are accurately maintained.

• Perform horizon scanning and provide input to group policies and procedures.

• Support and grow team members in ETL domains of data resilience.

• Present data resilience gaps to peers and senior stakeholders

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you’ll need

• Experience in Infrastructure administration, Middleware & integration.

• Experience of event streaming and batch processing, including point-to-point data transfer

• Proficient in Cryptographic key management and encryption deployments.

• Knowledge of Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, zOS, CentOS, Unix, Ubuntu and Solaris) and network protocols

• Familiar with analytic platforms and databases such as MSSQL, Kafka, S3, etc

• Experience in data movement tooling (IBM MQ, IBM Connect:Direct, sFTP)

• Strong experience (desirable certification) in Disaster Recovery, back-up and restore, cyber threats and monitoring, data encryption domains.

• Financial Services experience and exposure to understanding some but not all; payments, cards, pensions, insurance, markets, trade & settlement, logon customer journeys.

• Technical knowledge of FCA, PRA, EBA guidelines on operational resilience.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience in Data Fabric and Data Mesh concepts

• Data replication and failover technologies

• Experience with Enterprise Data Hubs and/or Warehouses

• Prior experience working of supporting or remediating resilience issues on assets such as batch, messaging queues, third party data connections, data recovery & backup, data vaulting, data integrity.

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

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We’d love to hear from you!