Why join us?

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.

What we're looking for

We’re looking for someone with significant hands-on experience engineering and supporting IBM MQ in large-scale enterprise environments.

Essential skills and experience:

• Deep technical knowledge of IBM MQ architecture and distributed messaging, including queue managers, channels and clustering.
• Strong experience securing MQ through TLS, certificates, authentication, authorisation and secure configuration.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure, performance and application-connectivity issues.
• Experience across the full MQ lifecycle, from design and installation through configuration, patching, upgrades and ongoing platform management.
• Understanding of enterprise security, risk, change and operational controls, with effective communication across infrastructure, application and platform teams.

Useful experience:

• Experience with other enterprise middleware, particularly IBM WebSphere Application Server or IBM DataPower.
• Containers and enterprise platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes, including Operators, containerised IBM MQ and relevant certification.
• Automation, CI/CD, source control and GitOps using tools such as Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Harness, Ansible, Python or Bash.
• Monitoring and observability with tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus or Grafana.
• Operating critical middleware across VMware, private or hybrid cloud environments, including incident management, resilience, backup and disaster recovery.
• Agile, cross-disciplinary engineering experience, including mentoring colleagues, improving standards and modernising traditional middleware

This is a place for you

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
• 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 make an impact? Apply today.

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 been 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.