Grow with UTB

This is a hybrid role working 3 days in the office (City of London location) and 2 days working from home.

Role Purpose:

 The Bank is moving towards a fully automated, integrated & seamless digital service. This role will:

• Lead on implementing Enterprise Automation and Integration utilising the latest Microsoft cloud technology and techniques
• Look across the banking industry and UTB departments to identify, design and build scalable automations & integrations
• Evaluate technologies to ensure optimal use across the bank
• Provide leadership, guidance on integration best practice and establish a capability fit for the whole business

Responsibilities:

• Develop strategic solutions to provide business efficiencies and drive customer satisfaction
• Develop and effectively communicate the Integration and Automation roadmap
• Deliver business value through technology in an efficient and effective manner
• Design and develop integrations from third party systems using APIs to UTB back-office systems
• Design and develop Microservices & web applications to support business processes (C#, ASP.NET, JSON)
• Design and maintain integrations best practises, promote coding standards, best practice & code control

Technical Knowledge sought:

• C#, Azure Functions, Azure ServiceBus, RESTful services, Event Driven / Messaging architecture
• LogicApps, Azure webapps, REACT or Blazor
• Azure Devops, CI/CD pipelines and Azure Monitor
• Familiar with various data integration architectures including Data Lake, Data Mesh, Enterprise Service Bus, Microservices
• Able to work with data structures including but not limited to xml, json, databases (relational and NoSQL)
• Familiar with Azure Graph API (likely to need this to interact with other Azure Applications)

Skills and Experience sought:

• Minimum of 5+ years of related .net Azure developer experience
• Understanding of the retail banking sector and market landscape
• Strong relationship management experience
• Ability to identify new technology opportunities in a fast-paced environment
• Taking best practice from previous experience and implementing it in a highly efficient manner
• Liaise and coordinate with 3rd party suppliers
• A passion for delivering positive customer outcomes
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical audience
• Time management skills with the drive and resilience to work under pressure to tight timescales whilst paying attention to detail

UTB is a dynamic and expanding specialist bank that provides solutions to our customers and brokers, which help them achieve their ambitions. Recognised as being one of the most dependable and well-respected Specialist Banks in the UK, we were delighted to see our balance sheet exceed the £2bn mark in 2022.

Exceptional customer service and the ability to provide rewarding deposits accounts and flexible lending solutions have helped us to develop productive and enduring relationships with our customers. We understand that their success is our success and that the quality of our people and teams, is key to delivering special outcomes for them.

We also understand that the performance of our people is directly linked to the culture in which they work. There is a strong sense of community at UTB and as well as promoting a clear set of internal values, and providing a wealth of facilities for training, personal development, and team building, we run a busy and varied calendar of engagement and social activity. Typical recent examples include: Pizza Lunch Days and Coffee Catch-ups; London Marathon and Sahara Challenge Sponsorships; Success Sharing and Value Awards; and Awesome Autumn social events ranging from Theatre Trips, Cocktail Mixology, and Cookery Classes, to Go-karting, Mini Golf and Clay pigeon shooting.

• competitive salary and discretionary bonus scheme
• matched pension contributions up to 7%

• 26 days annual leave plus two wellbeing days and opportunity to purchase additional holiday
• flexible and hybrid working
• private medical insurance via Vitality
• life, income protection and critical illness insurance
• enhanced family leave pay
• extensive learning and personal development opportunities
• electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme
• season ticket loan
• wellbeing support – discounted gym membership, employee assistance programme, 24/7 private GP access for staff and their immediate family (online), 1:1 key life stage coaching

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