Lead Automation & Integration Engineer

At United Trust Bank, we believe that people achieve more together than alone. That’s why we’re dedicated to building great relationships, offering tailored solutions, and providing our clients and broker partners with the support they need to go further. This was true when we first opened our doors, and it’s still our approach today.

As the Bank moves towards a fully automated, integrated & seamless digital service, the Lead Automation & Integration Engineer 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

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

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

Equal Opportunities

We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you will be asked to complete an equality questionnaire on a voluntary basis and any data we collect will be treated confidentially and used for evaluation purposes. This will be for a period of 6 months or longer with your permission. This helps us understand our applicants so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.