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Technical Team Leader

Bristol, England, United Kingdom | Hybrid
Permanent | Full time
Closing date:  Mar 28 2025

Technical Team Leader

  • Bristol, England, United Kingdom
  • Full time
  • Closing on: Mar 28 2025

What is the opportunity?

This is a phenomenal opportunity to be a key member of our UK IT Engineering & Delivery Team. You will be responsible for owning 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!

In this Role, you will

We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated Technical Team Leader to lead a team consisting of DBAs, Citrix and Windows specialists supporting a mixture of Oracle, SQL Server and Web-based applications. The role will be based in Bristol working alongside Group colleagues and suppliers.

  • 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 Oracle DBA services to the rest of the IT department
  • 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, robust people management skills and good planning and organisational skills
  • People management skills gained through leading teams of typically 4-8 staff
  • 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 DBA skills
  • Experience within the controlled development environment of a large Financial Services organization ideally with knowledge of Mortgage systems
  • Experience of Oracle 12+, Oracle Java, Citrix, SQLServer, Control-M, BitBucket and Git
  • Experience of JBoss, Axway, REST protocol, GoldenGate, Data Masking, SQLServer, POSTMAN, Cucumber, Eclipse, Jenkins, Maven

Essential Qualifications

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

More about the team

The 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!

Key Competencies

  • Customer Focused - People Manager
  • Agile - People Manager
  • Amplify Capability - People Manager
  • Manage Risk - People Manager
  • Champion Transformation - People Manager

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

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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Our application form takes just minutes to complete. If you have any questions or require assistance with our application process, you can fill out this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.

 

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