Engineer in Financial Systems Solutions (FSS)

at  Bank of England

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

The Financial Systems Solutions (FSS) domain develop and maintain the Bank of England’s financial and integration platforms to facilitate payments, settlement and collateral management across the United Kingdom.
We are committed to applying our professional expertise in building, upkeeping and innovating world class financial systems and solutions.
Unlike many large organisations, we provide both engineering and development in-house and this internal expertise allows us to understand the diverse needs of our historic institution, and work using agile methodologies to deliver them.
You will focus on providing quality systems and services that matter to the nation’s economy. Payment, Analytical, Supervision and Central Functions systems, we develop and support them all as part of our broad remit.
Collaborating closely with colleagues across Technology and throughout the organisation, you will help to deliver safe and supportable services that underpin business processes.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Domain Operations team currently comprises a Team Leader and 11 engineers.
We are seeking an engineer to join our Domain Operations team who can proactively manage and maintain a suite of systems and solutions. This is achieved through administering second and third line support and coordinating operational activity. You will provide support of identification, extraction, analysis and presentation of business data to provide historical, current and predictive views of business operations (BI).
The role provides room for learning and development in new skills and provides a pipeline for progression to reflect personal development. You will be working with people who are passionate about delivering high quality products and services
Although the job can be worked on a flexible basis, the jobholder will be required to participate in a cover rota, which will occasionally include some out-of-hours and weekend working.

This role will include:

• Apply analytical and problem-solving skills to incidents, requests and problems (as defined by ITIL).
• Coordinate operational activity for a set of systems/services.
• Provide technical skills and knowledge including SQL, SSH, Windows Server administration.
• Debugging application and database source code.
• Minimize the number of calls that are advanced through to 3rd line teams.
• Actively run major/significant IT incidents alongside junior team members.
• Be part of a high performing team forming strong and impactful relationships.
• Proactively seek out and implement system improvements that result in increased team performance against Technology’s SLA Targets
• Coach and mentor others.
• Invest time in professional and personal development.