Senior Infrastructure Specialist, Lloyds
z Mainframe Db2 DBA
£72.7-80.8k
2+ days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
Be an early applicant
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£72.7-80.8k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive in-depth expertise and knowledge of Db2 on z/OS
- Expert-level experience of performance monitoring and optimisation of Db2, including SQL tuning, buffer pool tuning, with the ability to make targeted recommendations to improve service stability and availability
- Expert-level experience of governing and approving DDL changes, handling schema evolution, validating impact, and ensuring alignment to change‑control processes
- Extensive experience of leading the resolution and troubleshooting of critical on-line systems
- Proven experience of communicating and translating complex technical concepts for Senior Leadership
- Experience of supporting junior team members, providing coaching on Db2 fundamentals, performance tuning, utilities, and operational processes
Desirable
- 10+ years of experience as a z/OS Db2 DBA in a financial organisation
What the job involves
- HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week
- WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office
- Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail, and Commercial bank. It is committed to helping Britain prosper. The group is investing £3bn to transform its products and platforms and become the bank of the future
- With 789 software systems and 26,000 servers we’re servicing 80,000 colleagues, 30m+ customers, and over 14m+ online users you can be confident our IT professionals have sizeable and exciting challenges every single day
- In this role, you’ll deliver highly advanced and sophisticated technical support for mainframe Db2 and its associated processes, tools, and utilities. You’ll help run and maintain services according to Group standards and policies (and to agreed service levels) and will assist with the delivery of investment funded work within mainframe environments - this includes out of hours
- Additionally, you’ll provide technical support (including incident and problem resolution for systems and processes in complex environments) – again this includes out of hours support
- Provide support for complex mainframe environments to tight timescales
- Help drive the strategy and design across the mainframe development and test estate
- Own and drive the zDBA technology roadmap, and work closely with stakeholders to deliver against it
- Implement standardisation and drive improvement initiatives in the team
- Work collaboratively across the wider Lab and Platform teams to develop, promote, and implement process initiatives
- Ensure processes, governance, and procedures are rigorously adhered to
Application process
- Time left to apply: End Date: February 9, 2026
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy, but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
On top of this, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on "FinTech Action Labs" to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. The company continues to enhance its online and mobile services (it is the UK's biggest mobile bank), as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 77 more jobs at Lloyds