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Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value.\nWe are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity.\nOur decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk.\nWe offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their expertise, and contribute to meaningful change. We look for people who care about quality, security, long-term impact, and who want to shape the future of a relationship-led bank.\nWe also recognise that flexibility can support people to perform at their best, and that it looks different for everyone. While arrangements will depend on the requirements of the role and the needs of the business, we are open to having a conversation around what flexibility could look like for you.\nCheck our Handelsbanken website for further information\nThe opportunity\nYou will be joining the UK Technology (UKT) team and will have a pivotal role in automating and streamlining the software delivery and infrastructure management processes that will underpin the successful delivery of an ambitious IT modernisation programme.\nAs a senior contributor within the team, you will build relationships with other teams across UKT including the software development and IT operations teams providing expertise and leadership to support improvement of continuous integration, operational and infrastructure-as-code practices enabling the timely delivery of high quality software products.\nHandelsbanken plc (the Bank) has been a UK subsidiary of Svenska Handelsbanken AB in Sweden (Group) since 2018. The Bank is undertaking a significant technology modernisation programme, in this role you will make an invaluable contribution to this by providing tools, processes and expertise to support the delivery of our software products.\nThe ideal candidate will be a promoter of modern engineering and DevOps practices who will bring a best of breed approach to support the IT modernisation programme. You will spend significant time partnering with technology teams and senior managers with the potential to promote a culture of shared responsibility for system reliability and performance.\nKey responsibilities\nPromote modern engineering and DevOps practices across the UK technology organisation at the Bank.\nProvide support to engineering teams in improving their software delivery, automation and operational maturity.\nProvide support to and mentor junior members of the teams.\nBalance priorities between existing on-premise applications and tooling and driving our Cloud adoption forwards.\nImplement and manage build pipelines to automate software build, test, and deployment processes to support rapid and reliable releases.\nDesign and implement observability capabilities including robust monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions enabling the tracking of system performance, detection of issues, and proactive troubleshooting.\nManage version control systems (e.g. Git) and ensure best practices are followed for code branching, merging, and repository management. \nMonitor and optimize system performance, identifying bottlenecks and collaborating with developers to resolve issues.\nEnsure appropriate backup, disaster recovery, and failover strategies are in place to ensure business continuity and high availability of applications and services.\nUnderstand centrally provided capabilities and encourage teams to make the best use of them.\nInfluence platform / system teams who are using tools like Bicep and Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure components, providing expertise and communicating requirements that will ensure consistency and reliability across environments.\nContribute to the work adopting centrally provider containerization platforms like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes as well as cloud native services to manage and scale applications efficiently.\nMaintain detailed documentation of infrastructure and operational documentation.\nWhat we’re looking for\nResearch (by Harvard University) shows that women are particularly likely to second guess themselves and not apply - so if you are worried you don't meet all the criteria, get in touch anyhow and let us do the worrying…\nRecent strong experience in DevOps practices, including developing build pipelines, automation, and observability, preferably in the banking or financial services sector.\nProficient in the use of scripting and programming languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Ruby, PowerShell) for automation.\nSignificant exposure to CI pipeline tooling (eg. 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That’s why, alongside brilliant colleagues, meaningful work and training and development opportunities, we provide a variety of benefits designed with your wellbeing in mind.\nIn addition, there is a flexible benefits package with the key highlights detailed below.\nApplication next steps\nYour journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken Talent Acquisition Partners will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if your experience aligns with our requirements, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.\nThis advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.\nThe Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. 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