Lead Technical Application Specialist

Exciting opportunity for a Lead Technical Application Specialist to join our Strategic Ledger Reconciliation and Controls Team, where you'll be responsible for one of three feature teams; Oracle Reporting, Oracle General Ledger & Accounting Hub, Oracle Cost Ledgers.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys building individuals and teams, whilst striving to improve capability and efficiency to shape and drive performance improvements. You will play a key part in the managing and maintaining technology as well as supporting with functional and engineering process improvements. Utilising your Oracle expertise, you'll maximise the product functionality whilst providing engineering support for the integration with other software components, across a Finance technology landscape.

About us…

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll do…

• Accelerate the technology estate change lifecycle
• Drive DevOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Implement Integrated Test Automation
• Leverage Cloud computing capabilities
• Champion Agile ways of working
• Apply expertise in Oracle ERP/EPM applications to lead and drive transformative change through route-to-live environments
• Build a high-performing team that enables the Finance Platform to deliver change at pace without compromising control or quality

• 5 years + in Application Specialist with experience in exploiting functionality in Oracle Cloud products (OFSAA, ERP, EDMCS, ARCS, Task Manager, OIC, OAC, OTBI & FDI) and integration with other software such as GCP Solid understanding of Cloud hosting and awareness of integration, connectivity, authentication, SSO Web-services and API technologies.
• Strong understanding of engineering and security protocols/standards.
• Software Engineering background beneficial but not essential. Experience of SQL, BASH, LINUX highly beneficial
• Understanding of Branching Strategies, tooling such GIT, Jenkins, Harness, GitHub Actions.
• Enable Business Success - Facilitate workshops, manage Route to Live testing, including test automation, provide robust post-go-live support and handover to BAU.
• Innovate Continuously - Stay ahead of the Oracle quarterly updates, understand new patch features and leverage the latest capabilities.
• Great interpersonal skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people.
• If you have any prior experience working within a finance function this would be desirable. Knowledge of SOX and associated controls highly beneficial.

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

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 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! At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.