About this opportunity
The Identity & Authentication Platform delivers capabilities to enable LBG business areas secure client and digital authentication and identity across all their digital channels. The Platform delivers core products including Identity & Authentication as a Service, giving end-to-end packaged services of several components for self-serve consumption.
What you'll be doing:
* Create and maintain robust APIs that enable secure and efficient communication between services.
* Develop scalable microservices architectures that support high availability and performance.
* Deliver solutions across both public and private cloud platforms, ensuring reliability and security.
* Participate as a valued member of agile squads, contributing to planning, development, and continuous improvement.
* Use best practices and design patterns to shape high-quality, maintainable solutions.
* Advocate for "What Good Looks Like" in software engineering and help spread these standards across teams.
* Take ownership of software delivery from inception to production, ensuring robustness and scalability.
* Focus on building secure authentication systems to protect customers against fraud.
* Work closely with architects, engineers, and technicians in the Authentication Lab to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
What you'll need
* Strong Software Engineering experience, ideally focused on Java
* Proven expertise in API design and development
* Hands-on experience with
* microservices
* Working knowledge of Authentication and Authorization concepts
* Exposure to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and performance engineering/cloud optimization
* Solid understanding of Networking and API Gateways
* Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, containers, orchestration, and service mesh
* Experience with DevSecOps pipelines and methodologies
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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.
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 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
Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today