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Senior Infrastructure Specialist (zMQ) – £72,702-£80,780, hybrid in Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds, full-time 35 hrs/week.
Deliver technical support for mainframe MQ, decommissioning, incident resolution and strategy across banking IT infrastructure.
Job Description Summary
Senior Infrastructure Specialist z MQ
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ
SALARY: £72,702 - £80,780
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds
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 our Edinburgh or Leeds office.
About this opportunity
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s biggest Digital, Retail, and Commercial bank seeking to help Britain prosper and we’re transforming our products and platforms with £3bn of investment to become the bank of the future.
With 789 software systems and 26,000 servers we’re servicing 80,000 colleagues, 30m+ customers, and over 14m+ online users you can be confident our IT professionals have sizeable and interesting challenges every single day.
In this role, you’ll deliver highly complex technical support for systems and processes in mainframe environments, focusing on decommissioning and bug fixing. You’ll help maintain and help migrate services according to Group standards and policies (and to agreed service levels) and will assist with the delivery of investment funded work within mainframe environments – this includes out of hours.
What you’ll do
- Provide support for complex environments to tight timescales.
- Help drive the strategy and design across the mainframe development and test estate.
- Work closely with key stakeholders, drive and deliver against the technology roadmap.
- Enforce standardisation and assist with improvement initiatives in the team.
- Work collaboratively across the wider Middleware teams to develop, promote, and implement process initiatives.
- Ensure processes and procedures are strictly adhered to.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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!
What you’ll need
Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on zOS
Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning and diagnosis
Experience of supporting and troubleshooting critical on-line systems.
Experience with Transport Layer Security (TLS)
It would be great if you also had
Diagnostic skills and an ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, allowing the provision of highly effective solutions in complex environments
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
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 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.