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Wednesday 03 December 2025Salary Range
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JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer – Oracle PL/SQL
SALARY: £70,929 - £76,000
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Leeds
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above office locations
About this opportunity
About this opportunity In the Protection Platform, we are driving significant technical improvements with a strong focus on engineering excellence. We are seeking an experienced Oracle PL/SQL Senior Software Engineer to help us optimize our applications while delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead, coach, and collaborate with other engineers across the platform within an agile team, working closely with our business partners.
With our growing business, a successful candidate will have a proven track record working on enterprise sized applications, focussing on application performance and resilience. Feature teams are expected to support their own production applications and the successful candidate will be at the heart of this, prioritising a reliable service for our customers.
About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need
Strong Oracle database development experience, working with PLSQL
Database fundamentals – performance tuning, database design and version control
Proven experience collaborating within agile teams, with a strong track record of coaching and providing leadership to drive delivery and continuous improvement.
And any experience of these would be really useful
Experience with GCP or similar
Experience with Java Spring Boot for enterprise sized applications
Experience with batch processing
Supporting a production application – SRE experience.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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What We Do
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.
The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.
