• Job Description

  Req#: 080777

  End Date

  Wednesday 09 August 2023

  Salary Range

  £0 - £0

  
  

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  Agile Working Options

  Flexible / Variable Hours

  Job Description Summary

  Le Mans is a multi-million pound strategic analytical platform which forms the core analytical capability for Risk. With over the 400 billion data records, 1300 users, 3000 Production Jobs and 4,000 business processes, the foundations have been laid for the platform to become the main engine for data and a catalyst for change. The solution is the largest database in Lloyds Banking Group and supports analytical and reporting activity which has a direct impact on the Group’s ability to be the Best Bank for Customers - supporting a wide range of regulatory reporting, models and analytics including Capital Reporting, IFRS9, FINREP, Bureau and BCBS239 reporting
  Technological advances in analytics software and technology present numerous opportunities for continued platform development, enhancement, and optimisation. At the same time, demand from across the Group to extend the suite of business applications remains very high (e.g. to meet evolving reporting, impairment, and capital needs).
  
  The Data Excellence Infrastructure team supports the delivery of the strategic Le Mans data roadmap including migration to Google Cloud Platform in 2024. We administer and provide technical support for the Le Mans system to facilitate business reporting, modelling, analytics, and customer decision making.

  Job Description

  JOB TITLE: Senior SAS Analyst, Platform Support

  SALARY: £45,054 to £55,066

  LOCATION(S): Halifax, Leeds, Edinburgh or London

  HOURS: 35 Hours Full Time

  WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

  Does the opportunity to work on one of the largest SAS platforms in Europe to support the critical Risk functions of the UK’s largest Retail Bank, as we adopt new cloud based technologies, excite you?

  About this opportunity

  Le Mans is a analytical SAS platform which forms the core analytical capability for Risk within Lloyds. With over 400 billion data records, 1300 users, 3000 Production Jobs and 4000 business processes, Le Mans supports a wide range of regulatory reporting, models and analytics including Capital Reporting, IFRS9, FINREP, Bureau and BCBS239 reporting.

  The Data Excellence Infrastructure team supports the delivery of the strategic Le Mans data roadmap including migration to Google Cloud Platform in 2024. We administer and provide technical support for the Le Mans system to facilitate business reporting, modelling, analytics, and customer decision making.

  Key accountabilities include:

  • Daily management and ownership for the production scheduled batch on Le Mans support

  • First line and triage support for all platform user issues. Root cause, SME support including 3rd party (SAS) engagement

  • Support the cloud migration project to enable Le Mans platform to be migrated smoothly into the Google Cloud Platform in 2024

  • Central coordination for BAU data changes incl. design, delivery, testing and implementation to Prod

  • Oversight, process execution and SME partner engagement for BAU compliances processes (ITEC, UAM, Cyber, SOX, PwC, Audit, etc)

  • Direct link between Business, IT and 3rd parties for all subject areas relating to Le Mans

  • Administration of all user permissions across the Le Mans environments

  • Pro-active & regular monitoring of the application to ensure that the system is available & stable. Ongoing housekeeping incl. continuous improvements

  Why Lloyds Banking Group

  We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

  What you’ll need

  • SAS Experience - ideally SAS v9.4, this should include:

  • experience of SAS Enterprise Guide as a minimum and with exposure to SAS DI Studio and SAS Management Console administration toolset (or demonstrate the fundamentals of permission-based architectures)

  • Unix AIX experience also preferred

  • Ability to understand sophisticated business requirements and create business ready, and compliant solutions in SAS

  • Experienced in a wide range of input data structures and file types such as XML, flat files and SAS files

  And any experience of these would be really useful

  • Able to write comprehensive process documentation required to support the Route-to-Live process (including detailed designs, operations handbooks, other technical specification docs).

  • Stakeholder Management experience is key. Ability to clearly articulate the data architecture, processes and provide workable solutions in an easy to understand format to SAS users.

  • Team development and coaching of both technical solutions and customer interaction.

  • Experience of financial product data, especially Credit Risk would be beneficial.

  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 encourage 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 performance-related bonus

  • Share schemes including free shares

  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

  • 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

  Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

  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.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. 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.

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