Senior Software Engineer; CDS

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (CDS)

SALARY: £72,702 - £80,780

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN
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Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

Come and join our team in Customer Data Services and be ready to develop and learn at pace whilst becoming a strong team player and being able to collaborate and mentor peers.

Our purpose is to master customer data by creating, extending, and maintaining access to high-quality, secure customer data for the Group, ensuring it serves as a robust foundation for operational excellence and customer engagement. We're committed to providing Customer Data as a Service, delivering critical data for operational and customer use, and empowering insights and analytics to drive informed decision‑making and strategic growth.

We want engineers able to pose deep questions, craft and explain reliable solutions, work in short iterative cycles with different techniques, and champion agility, quality, culture, and sustainability. Having the ability to listen, reflect and respect the view of others is key in this role and having ability to voice your perspective without being strongly tied to it.

Within Customer Data Services we manage Reference, product and interpersonal data across the organisation. Our aim is to provide access for the right reasons while maintaining confidentiality. We focus on delivering an outstanding engineering experience built on performance, resilience, and integrity.

The systems we support form the foundation of nearly all activities. We uphold these systems to the highest standard, aiming to take ownership for the operational support 24/7 through SRE principles.

We're transforming esting billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey.

• Knowledge of below, but please do not worry if you don't have all, we can work with you to build your skills
• Direct Software Engineering background creating extensive Java applications with Dev Ops Experienced with diverse tools, techniques, and platforms. Emphasizes verifying functionality and accuracy
• Experience in developing with Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs, Spring boot, JSON, Microservices, Kafka, and Postgres
• Solid grasp of architecture and cloud-native principles along with algorithms and data structures
• Experience handling container environments, specifically Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm (e.g., GCP, Azure, AWS), preferably GCP
• Experienced in automating CI/CD using tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker

• Experience with MDM, reference data, IBM product master and Mainframe
• Awareness of Agile values and principles.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

• 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, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies