Royal Bank of Scotland

**Join us as a Release Train Manager**  
* Join a new agile development team with a compelling mission to disrupt the mortgages market by taking a revolutionary, customer centric approach to redesigning the application process  
* You'll help design and work with feature teams delivering technology components to underpin customer journeys which are as reliable as they are effortless  
* We're a top mortgage lender with ambitions to grow further, so your solutions will make a difference to millions of lives  
* You'll be joining the programme early, so it's a chance to deliver something truly special from its early stages

  


 **What you'll do**  
We're taking a giant leap forward to change the home buying experience forever, and have true agile development and the latest technologies to help us do it. Youll be a fundamental part of the programme's success, using your technical expertise to develop cloud based architectural solutions which allow us to deliver on our ambitions.

  


 **Your responsibilities will include:**  
* Working directly with journey managers, and contributing to design sprints and ideation sessions to create new solutions to business problems  
* Acting as a single point of contact for journey outcomes from multiple feature teams  
* Working with feature team scrum managers to ensure capacity is in place for business outcomes, and working with release train managers to ensure feature releases meet governance  
* Ensuring appropriate RBS risks and governance demands are met  
* Using strong technical and engineering knowledge to help steer and design technical solutions  
* Managing run rate and financial spend

  


 **The skills you'll need**  
This role is suitable for a an experienced technologist with great engineering, collaboration and communication skills. You'll have a proven history of helping to lead parts of large change programmes in a technology environment, with a focus around service based application architectures and the use of modern patterns such as digital, microservices and PaaS. You'll be well versed in agile culture and methods, as well as techniques such as continuous integration and TDD. Youll also have experience managing stakeholder relationships, and the ability to communicate options and ideas to various levels within the organisation using a variety of methods.

  


 **As well as this, you'll bring:**  
* Experience of working with JIRA and Confluence  
* Knowledge of DevOps approaches and working practices  
* Great interpersonal skills, so you can work with both senior business and technical stakeholders  
* The willingness to express your opinion, and an understanding of when to prioritise progress

  


 **How we'll reward you**  
In return, we offer a competitive salary and you'll also join our retirement savings plan. You can also choose from a selection of protection, healthcare or lifestyle extras from RBSelect, our fully flexible reward programme.

  


Visit our reward and benefits page for more information on the benefit packages we offer.

Release Train Manager at Royal Bank of Scotland () (allows remote)

**Join us as a Principle Engineer**  
* If you have experience driving solution architecture, design and development in a large transactional organisation, we need your expertise  
* You'll be helping create a new Technology Fraud Platform for Personal Banking (PB), which will bring together a single view across numerous applications in the bank  
* This platform will support our Fraud & Chargebacks Operations unit, ensuring they have confidence in the systems that support their operations so they can consistently drive down fraud losses and protect our customers  
* You'll also collaborate with Principle Engineers from other platforms to contribute to the bank's Architecture, Design and Engineering Centre of Excellence

  


 **What you'll do**  
Were creating a new Technology Fraud Platform for Personal Banking, which will bring together a single view across numerous applications in the bank. As our Principal Engineer, you'll work closely with the Platform Architect to deliver specialist design and engineering activities at each stage of the platforms design, from its initial conception through to its solution and physical design.

  


 **Day to day, you'll be:**  
* Working closely with stakeholders and vendors to design strategic and robust solutions that are consistent with Technology architecture  
* Creating high level solution designs and gaining the necessary approval from Technical Design Authorities  
* Working on the delivery of intentional architecture and forming its emerging design  
* Collaborating with our feature teams to produce software rapidly, without compromising on quality  
* Designing, producing, testing and implementing working code  
* Creating high level solution designs and gaining the necessary approval from Technical Design Authorities

  


 **The skills you'll need**  
Were looking for someone with a strong technology background and excellent technical knowledge to join us in this role. You'll need great interpersonal and communication skills, along with an ability to quickly build and maintain strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders.

  


Great influencing and presentation skills will be key, as will your ability to explain complex ideas to a range of audiences.

  


 **You'll also bring:**  
* Experience driving solution architecture, design and development in a large transactional organisation  
* Significant experience using design frameworks and taxonomies and an understanding of object orientated specifications  
* A broad understanding of solution architectures, preferably JEE  
* Knowledge of emerging trends that can be developed into creative solutions and approaches  
* Experience applying Agile or DevOps methods to your work

  


 **How we'll reward you**  
In return, we offer a competitive salary and you'll also join our retirement savings plan. You can also choose from a selection of protection, healthcare or lifestyle extras from RBSelect, our fully flexible reward programme.

  


Visit our reward and benefits page for more information on the benefit packages we offer.

  


As a Financial Services organisation we comply with and support the requirements set by our Regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which are designed to protect our customers. This role falls under Conduct Rules of the Individual Accountability Regime (IAR) and is subject to pre-employment screening. This means if your application is successful, you'll need to satisfy some important background checks before you can start working with us. These will include a full credit check, a criminal record check, residency and right to work checks.

Principle Engineer at Royal Bank of Scotland () (allows remote)

**Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer, Software Defined Network**  
* For someone with knowledge of software-defined networking, this is an opportunity to join our Software Defined Network (SDN) function within Network Services  
* This is an exciting opportunity to set up, support and develop a new in-house SDN team, working on new SDN technologies such as Cisco ACI and VMware NSX  
* You'll be providing technical resource and support to all Run & Change functions across our newly deployed SDN infrastructure  
* Ultimately, you'll become a key contributor in this cutting-edge area of our business and will help set the future strategy to ensure its success

  


 **What you'll do**  
We have an immediate need to build our internal SDN capability within the bank, and this role is an opportunity to be part of a brand new team of technical specialists providing a DevOps function across the new infrastructure. This new team will support the end-to-end lifecycle and support of new and cutting edge SDN technologies, namely Cisco ACI and VMware NSX.

  


While you wont have any direct line management responsibilities, you'll be providing technical leadership and governance of the SDN DevOps workforce and activities, to make sure the banks business objectives are met.

  


 **You'r key responsibilities will include:**  
* Providing technical capability across the SDN DevOps team and our customers  
* Providing operational support for the new SDN infrastructure  
* Driving team cross-skilling to operate as a single DevOps function across both technologies  
* Performing all lifecycle management functions across SDN and maintaining the new technologies  
* Designing, planning and executing all incremental business-as-usual project change  
* Providing defined engineering services for the new SDN infrastructure  
* Collaborating with network and virtualisation colleagues to develop technical roadmaps

  


The skills you'll need  
Were looking for someone with knowledge of software-defined networking, including products and design. Youll have substantial experience of networking, both in a design and operational environment, paired with proven technology design experience in the financial services sector.

  


 **We'll also be looking to you to demonstrate:**  
* Knowledge of industry best practice, trends and emerging technologies within the SDN space  
* Operational experience of running VMware NSX environments or Cisco ACI fabrics  
* Knowledge and experience relating to product lifecycle, governance and maturity frameworks  
* An understanding of service management disciplines  
* Knowledge of project lifecycles  
* Experience providing people, technical and vendor leadership

  


 **How we'll reward you**  
In return, we offer a competitive salary and you'll also join our retirement savings plan. You can also choose from a selection of protection, healthcare or lifestyle extras from RBSelect, our fully flexible reward programme.

  


Visit our reward and benefits page for more information on the benefit packages we offer.

Infrastructure Engineer, Software Defined Network at Royal Bank of Scotland () (allows remote)

**Join us as a Software Engineer**  
* Join a new Agile development team, who aim to disrupt the mortgages market by taking a revolutionary, customer centric approach to redesigning the way customers manage their mortgage, delivering a helpful and hassle free journey  
* Use the best technologies to show our customers a new way to manage their mortgage, one they'd never have thought would be possible  
* We're a top three mortgage lender with ambitions to grow further, so your solutions will make a difference to millions of lives  
* You'll be joining the programme from the start, so it's a chance to deliver something truly special from its early stages

  


 **What you'll do**  
We're taking a giant leap forward to change the home ownership experience forever, and have true Agile development and the latest technologies to help us do it.

  


You'll take a leading role in the technical design, development and testing of complex front-end applications and services, working with a team of software engineers to create truly innovative solutions that deliver on our ambition.

  


You'll lead in exploring the pros and cons of solution design options to stakeholders to reach the best possible decision. From initial planning to delivery, you'll work closely with a wide range of business and technical stakeholders to build solutions that define needs our customers never knew they had.

  


Your responsibilities will include:  
* Producing modular code which tests well, and is carefully designed with future scalability in mind  
* Using your experience to help guide the strategic direction for user interface and user experience design  
* Making sure we build software that's consistent with the frameworks in use across the wider engineering community when applied at their best  
* Using your up-to-date understanding of industry best practice to tackle complex problems where there might be no proven route to success  
* Developing and mentoring less experienced engineers by providing constructive, understandable feedback, and facilitating opportunities for practical learning

  


 **The skills you'll need**  
Were looking for a fantastic collaborator with significant experience in front end development, who has a history of working on large technology change programmes. You'll be experienced in working with cloud technologies, and will have a particular focus on service oriented architecture and event driven programming, plus knowledge of security technologies.

  


We'll look to you to be well versed in Agile development, continuous integration and test automation, as well as being a great development team member who fosters and strengthens a spirit of transparency and teamwork.

  


 **You 'll also bring:**  
* A positive and pragmatic approach to getting new projects off the ground, and the proven ability to encourage cooperation among a multi-disciplinary team  
* Experience of using modern web development technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, and Java 8  
* Experience of the whole software development lifecycle and an informed appreciation of how software and system design decisions affect practical considerations  
* Experience in using CI or CD toolsets for code development including the build, test and deployment  
* Demonstrable experience in developing software in a cloud environment, preferably Pivotal Cloud Foundry  
* An excellent understanding of Query performance and optimising code as well as UX design principles

  


Experience in a financial services or FinTech environment would be very welcome, but isn't essential if you have the enthusiasm to make an impact on the industry.

  


 **How we'll reward you**  
In return, we offer a competitive salary and you'll also join our retirement savings plan. You can also choose from a selection of protection, healthcare or lifestyle extras from RBSelect, our fully flexible reward programme.

  


Visit our reward and benefits page for more information on the benefit packages we offer.

Software Engineer at Royal Bank of Scotland () (allows remote)

**Join us as a Principal Engineer**  
* Joining our Everyday Banking department, this is a rewarding opportunity to make a difference to our customers the bank  
* You'll be working with feature teams to rapidly produce high quality software that adds value to the business and provides customers with new features and products  
* This a fantastic opportunity to work with new technologies and hone your technical expertise in a collaborative, agile and forward thinking team environment

  


 **What you'll do**  
As a Principal Engineer, you'll be working with the domain lead, and product and release managers in determining the design and delivery approach for all of the platform's software throughout its life. You'll be playing a major role in the Engineering centre of excellence, collaborating with principal engineers from all platforms and domains to improve the bank's overall software engineering capability.

  


 **You'll also be:**  
* Working across the lifecycle, from requirements analysis to design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations  
* Developing a high level of knowledge of the platform across the disciplines of business, applications, data and infrastructure  
* Liaising with the domain architect and other key stakeholders to understand how the domain works, how it supports business objectives and the role of the platform within this  
* Continually improving performance through evaluating and analysing metrics  
* Deploying code continually and rapidly, working through backlog  
* Producing software that meets current non-functional requirements and is flexible to cope with future functional and non-functional needs

  


 **The skills you'll need**  
You'll need significant and demonstrable experience in software engineering, software or database design, as well as significant experience developing software within a DevOps or Agile framework where products have to be delivered to short delivery cycles, frequent deployment and continuous development. You'll also need experience of leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies, and you'll have collaborated across various business and technical areas.

  


 **You'll also need:**  
* Significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, particularly scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance  
* Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development alongside the use of automated test frameworks, mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools  
* An ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions  
* Experience of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis  
* Experience designing or implementing APIs  
* In-depth knowledge of large scale database and no-SQL design and optimisation  
* Experience of supplier management, particularly in procuring agencies or outsource providers  
* Experience of priority base requirements

  


 **How we'll reward you**  
In return, we offer a competitive salary and you'll also join our retirement savings plan. You can also choose from a selection of protection, healthcare or lifestyle extras from RBSelect, our fully flexible reward programme.

  


Visit our reward and benefits page for more information on the benefit packages we offer.

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