Senior Developer

Business Unit: Enterprise Systems
Career Direction: Digitising Our Future
Role Focus: Digital Innovation Peer Group: Leaders and Specialists (B)
Salary range: £43,200 - £54,000 per annum
Location: UK, Hybrid, with occasional travel to Glasgow
Contract type: Permanent

Live to inspire change. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Developer to join the Finance Tribe within our Enterprise Systems function in the Chief Operating Office (COO). The purpose of the Senior Developer role is to lead and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of complex software systems while mentoring junior team members and ensuring high-quality code and architecture.

Our focus is on maintaining and improving our finance systems estate, creating an architecture that meets the regulatory expectations, and enables performance, control and efficiency benefits. We deliver mandatory change, strategic change, and BAU support and run for the IT assets that we own. Our Finance Tribe brings together colleagues from technology and the finance business area to deliver change across key technical applications. The core work of the Finance Tribe is about building and supporting a Finance systems architecture for a tier-one bank, and that delivers performance and efficiency benefits to all the Finance team, and to the wider organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of regulatory data reporting solutions in SAS and Microsoft Azure.
• Working closely with business stakeholders to understand priorities and realise improvements in data and reporting.
• Collaborating with a range of business and technical SMEs to improve the quality of data lineage.
• Owning the design, build, unit test and implementation of enhancements and new functionality.
• Provide day to day support to our business colleagues and working collaboratively with various business stakeholders to understand and define change.
• Accountable for ensuring the business and technical architecture of the delivered solution matches technical and functional requirements.
• Provide technical expertise and ownership in the diagnosis and resolution of issues, including the determination and provision of workaround solution or escalation, as appropriate.
• Works closely with Project Managers to size work and manage scope, risks, and issues.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of ‘best practice’ initiatives within the specialist area of activity or IT in general and an awareness of global developments / practices.

We need you to have

• Proven ability to design, configure, and test data solutions in a financial and regulatory environment
• Strong understanding of data lineage, data quality and data warehousing
• Excellent SQL skills and experience of working with ETL tools
• Proven technical integration, analysis and design skills including solution/system design experience.
• Technical implementation management experience, from software delivery to ongoing lifecycle support (upgrades, patch fixes).
• Experience of working with and managing outsourced suppliers / strategic partners.
• Familiarity with technical incident management processes and resolution.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Databricks
• Experience of data solutions supporting Credit Risk and Finance functions
• Experience of Stress Testing Data Framework, ideally Credit Risk actuals

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money

We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money

Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit

Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment check