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Automation Lead

Bristol, England, United Kingdom | Hybrid
Permanent | Full time
Closing date:  May 26 2025

Automation Lead

  • Bristol, England, United Kingdom
  • Full time
  • Closing on: May 26 2025
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What is the opportunity

This is a rewarding role for a highly technical lead that is passionate about turning manual tests, tasks, and processes into automation scripts that can be executed on demand.

You will be helping us in reducing the manual execution time and reducing cost across different projects/programs within the factory.

Gain exposure to a variety of systems and applications within the Corporate & Commercial banking realm. Apply your creativity to solve technical challenges and turn them into solutions!

In this role you will:

  • Create the automation strategy/plan for the assigned projects/programs with a special focus on Return on Investment
  • Challenge the classical and manual way of thinking by holding constructive dialogue with different collaborators and gradually changing their mentality
  • Manage the building CI/CD pipelines or embedding automation into the pipelines
  • Conduct code reviews in line with the bank's coding and framework standards
  • Ability and willingness to roll their sleeves and get involved in coding, driving scripts, and reporting

What will make you stand out?

You are a highly motivated leader with a positive attitude, 100% delivery focused and have 7+ years' experience in the automation field. You have demonstrable experience fostering and sustaining a positive and constructive environment.

Background in Banking or Financial Services is essential. Preference for candidates with experience in systems associated with Capital Markets, Market and Treasury, or Regulatory Reporting.

You are highly proficient in automation programming languages (Java, Python) with excellent understanding of different types of automation framework such as: Selenium, Cucumber, Cypress, Appium, and Karate.

You have engineered automation scripts related to data insertion, data modification, data comparison, and data consolidation. You have automated different types of interfaces and integration points between upstream and downstream systems.

Further Technical Knowledge Required:

  • Good knowledge in databases such as MS SQL, Oracle or MongoDB.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages, such as Shell Scripting, Powershell and Python
  • Extensive Knowledge and experience with Git/GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, Selenium, UFT, and BrowserStack

Essential Qualifications

  • Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience

More about the team

The Engineering & Delivery area is responsible for the build, test and implementation of key systems that serve both the our internal and external customers. As well as providing the build services the area also provides Design capability to projects alongside development and testing environments and full project testing capability. The Engineering & Delivery team work very closely with the Change Team and Technology Services.

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Why work with us

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

  • Customer Focused - People Manager
  • One Group, one team - People Manager
  • Agile - People Manager
  • Accountable - People Manager
  • Manage Risk - People Manager

We`re on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

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