JOB TITLE: Senior Technical Application Specialist

SALARY: £70,929 - £80,000

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Manchester office.

Job Description Summary

About This Opportunity: We’re looking to recruit a Technical Application Specialist to join our Colleague Channels Platform, where you’ll deliver high-quality customer-driven software while challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting the engineering teams.

About Us

We’re evolving as a modern organisation, investing in people, data and tech to transform how we meet the needs of our customers. We’re growing with purpose and welcome applications from diverse backgrounds.

What You’ll Do

• Two in a Box Model: Work with the Product Owner to guide the team within Nucleus, collaborating with business, development, and third-party resources.
• Technical Oversight: Facilitate code reviews, resolve defects, and mentor team members, including junior engineers and partner resources.
• Project Management: Manage broader delivery aspects such as risk assessment, project planning, and documentation.
• Implementation Support: Provide support for off-hours implementations.
• Automation Integration: Enhance automation within the space and drive team innovation.
• Innovation Focus: Continuously seek and implement innovative approaches to improve processes and solutions.

What We Need From You

• Strong understanding of structured delivery environments, including release planning and defect management.
• Ability to interpret and troubleshoot technical issues across application layers.
• Experience with APIs and third-party vendors in a regulated or structured setting.
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical issues and collaborate across teams.
• Ability to coordinate and support structured release cycles, including pre-release testing, deployment, and post-release validation.
• Familiarity with test automation tools and frameworks (Playwright) is a plus.

Wider Skills

• Organised and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple priorities in a structured environment.
• Experience bringing together individuals to form a highly effective team with a strong identity.
• Proactive and delivery-focused mindset with ownership of tasks.
• Adaptive and resilient, comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving platform space.

About Working For Us

We’re committed to an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We welcome applications from under-represented groups and can provide reasonable adjustments to recruitment processes on request.

Benefits

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%
• Annual bonus, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle (e.g., discounted shopping)
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, we’d love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re focused on helping Britain prosper. We offer opportunities to learn, grow and develop within a values-led, inclusive workplace.

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