PEGA Lead Engineer

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

JOB TITLE: PEGA Lead Engineer

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

In the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities.  We’re on a journey to use the latest advances in AI and Machine Learning to enhance the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime. The Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.

What will I be doing?

You’ll lead and direct the team as well as working with the Business, Development and UK onsite teams to drive solutions. Additionally, supporting code reviews and defect resolution. You’ll coach other members in the team including junior engineers and partner resources and support wider delivery consideration eg; risk management, planning, keeping documents current. The role will also include supporting implementations that may be out of usual working hours and attending and contributing to Guilds.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• A Certified Lead System Architect (PEGA qualified), with significant experience in PEGA

• Experience of delivery on PEGA 8.x is required in either PEGA Business or PEGA Technical Environment

• Must have experience of building REST APIs

• Strong understanding of PEGA Architecture and supporting infrastructure

• Support of working on PEGA applications on Cloud based architecture.

• Must have experience of developing web services using JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JAX-B and Java web-frameworks.

• Experience of designing applications from scratch within PEGA including class structure and Org design.

• Previous experience of analysis and design of solutions, proto-typing, build, test, implementation, and application support.

• Clear Communication - with a high standard of English, both written and verbal, familiar with communicating with Business customers

• Experience of bringing together individuals to form a highly effective team, with strong team identity

• Experience in leading and directing teams of up to 15 engineers, with a strong focus on Coaching/mentoring Junior team members

What will be desirable

• Strong understanding of WAS, JBoSS and Tomcat servers

• Knowledge of working with Pega applications frameworks Like CLM (Customer Lifecycle Manager), Customer Service, Smart Disputes etc.

• Strong Core Java skills

• Understanding of react and front-end development

• Experience of JIRA/Confluence and other tools and techniques such as DevOps

• Keen focus on sustainable and cost effective technical solutions

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 underrepresented 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 performance related bonus

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.