Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Salary: £70,929 - £78,810
Location: Chester
Hours:  Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

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…

About this opportunity

As Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring your deep technical expertise to the table, driving technical development and delivery in key areas.  You’ll focus on solving complex challenges with your specialised knowledge taking ownership of critical tech delivery within your team. 

In this role, you’ll lead the way in shaping the direction of our software solutions, using your expertise to make impactful decisions and drive success.  You’ll collaborate closely with the team and product owner to ensure delivery excellence.  If you’re someone who thrives on delivering high-quality solutions and making real impact with your technical know-how, we’d love to hear from you!

Working within the Financial Wellbeing Platform you can play a pivotal role in the next stage of our transformation journey. The Platform’s purpose is to create a leading experience to help our customers before, during and after financial difficulty. You can ensure we help them become more financially resilient and improve their overall financial wellbeing.

We aim to achieve this purpose through improving colleague tools, creating tools to allow customers to better handle their day-to-day finances, and by simplifying the Customer Financial Assistance (CFA) systems through an increased focus on Automation, DevOps, Cloud technologies and Rationalisation

What you’ll do

• Accountable for the design, build and implementation of Front and Back end changes with a focus on operational stability, robustness, resilience and quality. Ensuring this is in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering principles.

• Provide Domain Expert input into systems development, integrations and architecture.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance, including coaching and mentoring of the team.

• Contribute to the success of the wider Engineering Community by following industry standards, improving work quality through peer reviews, and sharing your knowledge to foster growth.

• Build partnerships and work cross-functionally with others to meet shared objectives, promoting a culture of collaboration where people can express themselves honestly.

• Implement data quality checks, data cleansing and validation to ensure high-quality data in ETL processes.

What you’ll need

Front-End Technologies

• Skilled at using your programming skills to enhance the Debt Manager application for Retail customers, including workflows, front-end user functionality and user role entitlements.

• Able to apply your technical expertise to troubleshoot and resolve issues in the Debt Manager Platform, ensuring system integrity and performance.

• Write and modify code to adjust application settings, create custom fields, and enhance user interfaces, improving functionality and user experience. 

ETL Development and Data Transformations:

• Proficient in using ETL tools such as Pentaho Data Integration for designing, testing and deploying data transformation workflows. Skilled at extracting, transforming and loading data across various source ensuring accuracy and efficiency in data pipelines.

• Experience in SQL Server for database administration, SQL statements, complex stored procedures, dynamic SQL queries, functions, scripts and using SQL to query, analyse and manipulate data.

• Strong knowledge of database optimisation, indexing and performance tuning to support reliable operations

DevOps:

• Strong adoption of version control and source code management
   

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Release management knowledge

• Collections and Recoveries process knowledge

• Experience in designing and implementing Batch Processing Architectures

• Experience in configuring and managing Batch Scheduling Tools

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!