Technical Application Specialist

JOB TITLE:
Technical Application Specialist

SALARY:
£47,790 - £58,410

LOCATION:
Edinburgh

HOURS:
Full-time

WORKING PATTERN:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity:
Join a team that blends deep technical expertise with hands-on problem solving, where you'll support a critical vendor platform and help deliver resilient, secure, and customer-focused solutions in the Asset Finance space.

Asset Finance
sits within Lloyds Banking Group's Commercial Lending Platform and is responsible for supporting a vendor-managed platform that underpins our Asset Finance operations.

This team ensures the stability, performance, and continuous improvement of services that support customer and colleague experiences across the asset finance lifecycle. As a
Technical Application Specialist
, you'll work closely with vendors, engineering teams, and change delivery colleagues to manage incidents, support releases, and contribute to automation, observability, and service enhancements.

You'll also help maintain integrations, support business-as-usual events like DR and penetration testing, and ensure the platform continues to meet evolving business needs.

Day to day, you'll:

Configuration & Integration

• Understand how third-party systems interact to enable enterprise-wide data flow.
• Tailor systems to meet Group requirements, increasing automation and security.
• Articulate business challenges and operationalise information effectively.
• Create and update workflows to support evolving customer journey requirements.
• Managing application configuration
• Manage user access and permissions, ensuring appropriate security and compliance.
• Develop and maintain unit tests to support robust and reliable solutions.
• Support quality engineers with automation testing and contribute to writing automation tests as required.

Technical Delivery

• Assist in project planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, and testing.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of technical solutions.
• Create technical documentation for projects and solutions.
• Participate in discovery efforts to understand business and technical requirements.
• Assist in the development of prototypes to validate concepts and contribute to solution design.

Technical Operations

• Independently handle routine specialist tasks and troubleshooting.
• Use scripts, tools, and basic technical skills to investigate and manage issues.
• Escalate issues with support or guidance as needed.
• Manage the end-to-end release cycle for technical applications, including planning, coordination, and execution of releases.
• Track product versioning and ensure accurate documentation and communication of changes.
• Understand how products are hosted, including system architecture and infrastructure requirements.
• Maintain awareness of system requirements and ensure compliance throughout the release process

Values & Behaviours

• Stay updated with emerging trends and apply technical knowledge to solve problems.
• Collaborate effectively with team members and other departments.
• Contribute ideas in team brainstorming sessions.
• Begin to guide and support less experienced team members.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and embrace diverse viewpoints.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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. Including you.

What you'll need:

• Experience handling routine technical tasks independently.

• Basic scripting and troubleshooting skills.

• Understanding of third-party system integration and enterprise data flow.
• Familiarity with project lifecycle and engineering development practices.
• Ability to create technical documentation.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks and continuous integration principles.
• Experience collaborating with vendors to resolve incidents and drive process improvements.
• Experience supporting change management activities, including the coordination of BAU events such as third-party changes, release management and testing activities.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Exposure to agile and traditional development methodologies.
• Experience contributing to solution design and implementation.
• Interest in emerging technologies and innovation.
• Ability to mentor or guide junior team members.
• Participation in evaluating new tools and technologies.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

* An annual performance-related bonus

* Share schemes including free shares

* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

* 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.