What is the opportunity?

This is an exciting opportunity to be a key member of our UK IT Engineering & Delivery Team. You will be responsible for managing the technical team to ensure delivery objectives are achieved on our UK Mortgage Platforms.

Our ambition is to deliver flexible, scalable, and simple solutions that are secure, engaging and enable our customers, colleagues, and communities to thrive!

We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated Technical Team Leader. You will lead a team consisting of Citrix/Windows/Middleware Specialists, Configuration Analysts, Bit Bucket Administrator, Ctrl-M Administrator and DBAs supporting a mixture of Oracle, SQL Server and Web-based applications.

The role will be based in Bristol working alongside Group colleagues and suppliers.

In this Role, you will

• The provisioning of test and development databases and environments.
• Providing the technical lead in multiple projects
• Collaborating closely with 3rd party offshore production implementation teams (Oracle DBA, Wintel, Control-M, JBoss, Axway and Citrix)
• Routinely supervising out-of-hours production implementations
• Ensuring technical solutions are forward thinking in their approach and use the latest innovations in order to keep up with a constantly evolving market
• Providing technical services to other areas including architecture, development and testing teams.
• Collaborating closely with technical resources from a variety of 3rd party suppliers
• Working with Technical Delivery Managers and internal and external development teams and internal testing teams to agree and monitor project landmarks
• Identifying risks and dependencies whilst proposing mitigation strategies
• Providing team management, mentoring, coaching and operational support to team.
• Providing weekly project updates.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Validated hands-on experience in a technical application development role with a consistent track record of effective team management skills and good planning and organisational skills
• Strong evidence of a desire to move to a people management role if not already in one
• Ability to optimally perform resource and task management to support multiple teams within the IT department.
• Strong Agile skills including experience of agile toolset, for example Jira and Confluence
• Demonstrate ability to work on own initiative and to be self-sufficient. Demonstrate personal ownership/responsibility for work
• Experience of working with large scale business critical systems

What will make you stand out?

• Technical background in Oracle PL/SQL applications & strong technical skills in one or more of the following areas: DBA, Middleware, Ctirix or Windows
• Experience within the controlled development environment of a large Financial Services organization ideally with knowledge of Mortgage systems
• Experience of DevOps
• Experience of Oracle 12+, Oracle Java, Citrix, SQLServer, Control-M, BitBucket and GitHub
• Experience of some of JBoss, Axway, REST protocol, Data Masking, SQLServer, POSTMAN, Cucumber, Eclipse, Jenkins, Maven
• People management skills gained through leading team of typically 4-8 staff

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More about the team

Our UK IT Engineering & Delivery team are part of the Enterprise Services within Bank of Ireland and are responsible for the full end-to-end delivery and support of a wide range of Mortgage applications.

Services provided by the highly skilled UK IT team range from systems integration architecture, design, security, application and API delivery including platform tooling and support. We deliver flexible and scalable technology that is secure to enable our customers, colleagues and communities to thrive.

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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 24 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!