IT Technical Lead in Belfast

Danske Bank UK is a leading bank in Northern Ireland and a growing bank in the rest of the UK. At Danske Bank, we’re driven by a clear purpose: to help customers, colleagues, and society thrive. We believe that what we do genuinely makes a positive difference and that our culture and ways of working create a unique place to grow your career. This includes investing in our people’s personal growth and wellbeing to ensure everyone feels that they belong and are set up for success.

We value diversity in its broadest sense which we know makes us stronger as a business and invites all colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. Our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy is central to our purpose and shows up in how we work every day. Driving sustainability is a key strategic priority for us. We’re proud to have achieved the highest level in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey by Business in the Community (BITC) for the seventh consecutive year.

We’re passionate about giving back to the communities in which we live and work. There are lots of ways you can get involved, such as fundraising for our charity partner (Include Youth), visiting schools to teach young people about money and budgeting, volunteering with a local food bank, planting trees, and so much more.

There’s much more to working at Danske Bank than just a salary but for this role we are offering a competitive salary of £42,800-£50,000 (depending on experience). We want to be a workplace in which our colleagues can succeed and feel empowered through all stages of their career and life. We also offer an attractive range of flexible benefits centred on wellness, financial, psychological, physical and social. Everyone’s circumstances are different, and our benefits can be tailored to your needs.

As IT Technical Lead you will help lead the delivery of a wide range of IT services for the Bank. You will work collaboratively with technical and business stakeholders within the project delivery lifecycle and also act as IT Service/Application Owner – working with other IT, business and 3rd party stakeholders in order to provide ongoing support for the Bank’s IT Services.

In this role, you will advise, guide, and challenge the business on IT-enabled transformation initiatives to support the achievement of business objectives. Acting as the technical interface between local business units and Danske Group IT, you will translate business requirements into technical requirements. Additionally, you will support the deployment of infrastructure to enable new solutions for the bank.

Throughout the project lifecycle, you will provide direction to key stakeholders on the planning, implementation, and go-live phases of new or enhanced IT services. Providing technical leadership on cloud readiness and migration activities, offering expertise and support in resolving complex incidents and problems across Danske Bank’s IT infrastructure.

You will proactively manage the development of the infrastructure and application portfolio, ensuring that robust technology roadmaps are in place to guide the future evolution of IT services, with a strong emphasis on IT security implications. Additionally, you will apply security governance frameworks and IT risk management practices to both internal and third-party IT solutions.

As IT Technical Lead you’ll also:

• Represent Danske Bank UK at Infrastructure and Enterprise Change Advisory Boards
• Facilitate penetration testing, cyber assessments
• Engage with vendors to plan future development and upgrades
• Document and handover technical solutions
• Promote training, simplification and engineering best practices
• Maintain a high level of knowledge and technical competence in areas such as cloud, IT security application development (e.g. through Agile methods); DevOps; external hosting & cloud service provision; database development

Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role:

• Experience of successful delivery within an IT project environment – working within the IT development lifecycle and understanding of agile methods
• Experience of assessing IT risk and security implications of new or enhanced solutions
• Experience of using cloud-based technologies to help drive business success
• Understanding of operational resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity

Preferred:

• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience of DevOps processes and technologies
• Experience working in financial services or regulated environment
• Experience working with Managed Service Providers in the delivery of IT Services

Our belief is that we are “Better when Together” and want to balance the benefits of teaming up in person with flexible working where possible. We will be supportive and flexible to your circumstances, so for roles that offer a hybrid option we ask colleagues to attend their base location a minimum of 3 days a week so they can connect, collaborate and learn together. The other 2 days can be worked either from home or another bank location.

If this sounds good to you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply by uploading your CV ensuring you have included enough detail to clearly demonstrate how you meet our criteria.

If you have a disability, long term health condition or additional need that requires accommodation or adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please advise us of this on your CV & a member of the team will be in touch to discuss!

Each one of us is different, and at Danske Bank we value and respect individual differences. Danske Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. That means that, as a committed equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of (but not limited to) gender, ethnicity, background, nationality, generation, age, working style, religious background, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and cognitive diversity, including neurodiversity.