Lead Software Engineer - Murex

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer - Murex 
Location: London
Salary: £114,453 - £140,040
Hours:  Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

The Trade Execution Lab has recently formed off the back of LBG undertaking one of the largest financial services transformations changing the way we work to ensure we remain relevant to our customers today and tomorrow. It's a pivotal moment, and we want to be at the forefront as our industry becomes more tech enabled.

The lab itself is centred around supporting 3 products that underpin the Markets platform; Trade Management & Control, Cash & Collateral Management and Trade Settlements.

Some of the key fundamentals underpinning the lab are; Products not Projects, More Platform Autonomy, Consistently Sized & Organised Teams, Bringing Business and Tech closer together.

What you’ll do

People sit at the heart of what we do, and this role is no exception. We need a true people person to join us and lead our FX & Commodities Feature Teams under the Trade Management & Control Product.

Reporting into the Trade Execution Lab Engineering Lead, your primary responsibilities will be:

• Co-ordinating and Leading the Murex Software Engineering teams working on the FX & Commodities product

• Living and breathing Lloyds’ core values and behaviours

• Encouraging and guiding the team in a caring and collaborative manner

• Nurturing the individual wellbeing, career, development & training for colleagues in the team.

What you’ll need

To achieve these things, you’ll have relevant deep and broad experience in Murex and will have been successful in a similar lead or senior supporting role.

Your appreciation of the technical and functional aspects of the Markets and Treasury businesses and functions should cover some of these areas - but rest assured, we won’t expect you to know everything!...

• Deep and broad experience of task managing a team of expert Murex software engineers

• Experience of the Murex CI/CD Dev Ops pipeline

• An understanding of Markets/Treasury asset classes, products and their associated trade lifecycles

• An appreciation of database and application server technologies and operating systems as well as database concepts (e.g. Oracle)

• Familiarity with the concept of automated testing and process automation

• A grounding in application and database security concepts and controls

• Experience of migrations/transfers to/from application platforms

• An awareness of global regulatory regimes and their compliance mechanisms

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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!