Technical Application Service Specialist

Are you passionate about technology and service excellence? We're looking for a Technical Application Service Specialist (TASS) to join our Shared Services Lab, where you'll play a critical role in maintaining IT service stability and driving improvements across our operations.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys problem-solving, and wants to make a real impact on service reliability and resilience.

What you'll do:

• Act as a subject matter expert, resolving complex service issues and managing escalations.
• Lead recovery efforts during incidents and outages, ensuring minimal disruption.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying gaps in service delivery and implementing solutions.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles, using automation and software tools to improve system stability. Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues across a range of technologies.

Essential skills and experience:

• Microsoft SQL Server (including T-SQL and SSIS) and debugging SSRS reports.

• REST API integrations (JSON, XML) and automation opportunities.

• Strong background in IT Operations or Service Management within a support environment.

• Understanding of secure file transfer protocols (SFTP) and encryption standards.

• Working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary technical teams and business users to diagnose and resolve incidents.

• Solid understanding of ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change).

• Ability to manage incidents under pressure, ensuring timely resolution and clear communication.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with a methodical approach.

What will make you stand out:

The technical skills above are fundamental to the role, but the following skills would help you stand out even further as a strong candidate:

• Familiarity with financial products (GIA, ISA, SIPP) and regulatory frameworks.
• Dynatrace monitoring and FNZ Wrap Platform experience.
• Working with Azure services (Data Factory, Key Vault, SQL, Storage, Cosmos DB, DevOps).
• Knowledge of certificate management and mTLS authentication.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience maintaining technical documentation and operational procedures.

What we offer:

• 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
• 30 days' holiday, plus bank holidays
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Why join us?

You'll be part of a collaborative team that values innovation, resilience, and continuous improvement. We offer a hybrid working model, competitive benefits, and the chance to work on critical systems that underpin our business.

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.