Lead Systems Engineer (Data mapping) Full Time

Lloyds Banking Group

JOB TITLE: Lead Systems Engineer (Data mapping)

SALARY: £100,657-118,420 per annum

LOCATION: London

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

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

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for a Lead Systems Data Mapper to join our International & CHAPS lab.

We’re responsible for over £10 trillion of CHAPS and cross border payments every year across our CHAPS, T2, Sepa & Correspondent Banking Payment Processing products. Our team works in close collaboration with industry groups and regulators to protect the UK, the Bank and our Customers.

As a lab we are completely transforming the way that CHAPS and International Payments are made at Lloyds Banking Group. We are mid way through a multiyear migration from legacy technology to our strategic estate fully capable of utilising ISO20022 end to end.

In the Lead Systems Data Mapper Role, you will deliver the highest quality customer driven system interfaces whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting your Data mapping team. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a component team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model.

Specifically, you’ll focus on the following:

• Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Interfaces runway for our Lab & Platform teams.

• Working in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality interface mappings and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst ensuring systems interfaces operates as intended.

• You’ll be an advocate for Data transmitted within the interfaces, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting them in resolution of impediments and issues while defining the interfaces.

• Efficient in understanding industry standard interfaces API’s, JSON,XML/XSD, file based, messaging technologies (Kafka, MQ), microservice architectures.

• Deep understanding of Payments Message formats ISO20022 and MT.

• Good Understanding of Payments Schemes CBPR+, T2, CHAPS, SEPA.

• Leverage modern technologies to unlock agility in how we meet future needs efficiently, delivering compelling customer and business propositions

• Provide input into new delivery outcomes prepare detail list of interfaces which are being impacted by the change working closely with Architecture and CJMs to understand the full scope of work.

• Coach the teams around interfaces mapping, use of new tool and techniques, building re-usable methods and approach to deliver work efficiently.

ABOUT US

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

System analyst experience

• Strong Systems Analyst background and experience of agile development practices with a history of technical leadership.

Payments

• Experience across the Payments domain, industry and technology ecosystem.

• Experience on Finastra GPP FNDT formats across Payments, Accounting, Sanction Screening, Data Interfaces.

Data mapping

• Experience in Data mapping tools like Trace Transformer, Altova XML Spy for mapping data across two messages/interfaces.

Agile ways of working

• Ability to build agile ways of working within the team to meet changing requirements by developing standard models which can be used iteratively.

Leadership

• Experience in providing guidance, technical and people leadership across component team.

• Experience in inspiring delivery whilst encouraging simplicity and developing confidence & trust

• Ability to address risks across our current service through investing in our assets and security capabilities.

AND THE FOLLOWING WOULD BE REALLY USEFUL

• Strong working knowledge of Payments Systems such as CBPR+,Target2, CHAPS, Faster Payments, SEPA.

• Good understanding of middleware and integration technologies

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.

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.