Technical Application Specialist - Working Capital: Asset & Invoice Finance

Lloyds Bank plc; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

A major banking institution seeks a Lead Technical Application Specialist in Edinburgh, offering a competitive salary range of £90,440 to £106,000. This role involves leading technical practices across feature teams, ensuring high-quality outcomes in application development, and managing vendor relationships. The position supports a hybrid working model and is key to delivering innovative digital banking solutions. Candidates should have proven technology leadership skills and experience in complex technical environments.

Benefits

Wideranging benefits package

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Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience operating across multiple feature teams.
• Proven technology leadership skills.
• Experience in delivering complex technical change.

Responsibilities

• Ensure systems are developed and maintained in line with engineering standards.
• Oversee vendor management and ensure compliance with standards.
• Drive uplift across the bank ecosystem and improve engineering practices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Incident resolution

DevOps pipeline optimisation

Agile delivery

Automated testing

Job description

**Job Title:** Lead Technical Application Specialist **Salary:** £90,440 – £106,000 **Location:** Edinburgh **Hours:** Full time **Working Pattern:** Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the everchanging needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…Lloyds Banking Group is redefining itself to build the bank of the future. Our Commercial Banking division supports UK businesses and those connected to the UK, helping them grow, manage risk and improve efficiency. Within Commercial Banking, you’ll help deliver the next generation digital bank for clients. By simplifying and automating journeys, clients receive a better experience, and colleagues are enabled to spend more time helping clients grow their businesses.In this role, you’ll act as a key engineering and leadership presence across a number of feature teams - uplifting capability, strengthening technical practices, and ensuring consistent, high quality outcomes across a complex application landscape.This role is critical in ensuring that our systems are developed, integrated and maintained in line with excellent engineering standards. You’ll coach and uplift leadership populations, contribute to end to end change initiatives, and help mature our engineering ecosystem — including API uplift, skills development, vendor management, and cross team technical alignment.Drive uplift across the wider bank ecosystem - including API standards, engineering skills, backlog quality and platform maturity.Oversee vendor management, ensuring suppliers provide the right skills, leadership and delivery capability to meet bank objectives.Ensure all engineering activities comply with industry standards, regulatory requirements and internal governance.**multiple feature teams** in a leadership or technical stewardship role. Demonstrable experience operating across Experience in incident resolution and root cause analysis across complex, multiapplication environments.Proven technology leadership skills, able to define and maintain engineering standards while aligning solutions to architecture and business objectives.Experience delivering complex technical change across multiteam and multiplatform environments.Experience of DevOps pipeline optimisation and modern CI/CD practices. Familiarity with automated testing, process automation and quality engineering principles.Significant experience in Agile delivery environments.**We also offer a wideranging benefits package, which includes…**Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.