Senior Systems Engineer

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary is up to £75,360 plus annual bonus & benefits

Location - Edinburgh or Glasgow, Permanent

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office 1 day per week for this position.

Closing Date - Applications close 21/01/25 at 5pm

A career that works for you

We're looking for a Senior System Engineer to join our Data Platform Engineering team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our data practice and work with a team of talented data engineers.

• You'll lead the development, delivery, and optimisation of data assets across our data life cycle and solutions, engaging with application teams and consumers.
• You'll be key in delivering value across all data platforms while working within a modern engineering workplace.

A role with us will have its challenges, demanding a variety of skills and a strong personality and we offer the rewards to match. We're here to go the extra mile for our customers, and we'll be here for you too, ensuring you can build on your skills and forge a career of achievement.

What you'll be doing

• Working alongside colleagues within our Smarter Decisioning Platform team.
• Be hands on with the development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Application as Code (AaC) on our core scheduling platform CA Autosys.
• Ensuring reliable system operations, using implementation of telemetry, monitoring and response for live services,
• Maintaining and working against medium to long-term plans to improve automated Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Supporting and developing the capability of engineers across the Data Practise to create positive outcomes for end users.
• Improving quality, feedback loops and boost productivity across teams in Agile Value Stream.
• Contributing to embedding an agile mindset and approach focused on improving outcomes.

We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank.

We need you to have

• AWS cloud native services
• Linux
• Python
• Terraform & Ansible
• GitHub
• Cloudbees
• Jenkins
• CI/CD Pipelines

And if you have any of these, even better

• Docker
• Apache Airflow
• IBM MQ,
• IBM Sterling
• CA Autosys

We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What's in it for you

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.