Technical Specialist

Business Unit: Chief Operating Office Salary Range: circa £50,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits Don’t settle for dull. Live a life more Virgin. Our Team Our focus is on maintaining and improving our finance systems estate, creating an architecture that meets the regulatory expectations, and enables performance, control and efficiency benefits. We deliver mandatory change, strategic change, and BAU support and run for the IT assets that we own. Our Finance Tribe brings together colleagues from technology and the finance business area to deliver change across key technical applications. The core work of the Finance Tribe is about building and supporting a Finance systems architecture for a tier-one bank, and that delivers performance and efficiency benefits to all the Finance team, and to the wider organisation. What you’ll be doing Maintaining and supporting the day-to-day management of the strategic regulatory reporting application across all environments, ensuring compliance with external regulations and internal policies Providing technical input to the Release Management process such that change is effectively managed and deployments appropriately prioritised and scheduled Provide support and guidance on your area of expertise to support successful delivery of each quarterly release Ensuring our key objective to ensure there are no regulatory reporting deadlines near misses resulting from system failure or error is met Support technical discussions, when assessing impact of new initiatives, work requests and the support of existing services. Support the Senior Technical Specialist in identifying emerging industry and technology trends, training needs and areas of risk.   We need you to have Knowledge of relevant systems, frameworks and technologies Understanding of large complex IT estates including system dependency’s Ability to troubleshoot issues and make recommendations for system changes as needed to resolve issues Communication and influencing skills to be able to effectively communicate complex requirements to colleagues with varying levels of technical knowledge and ensure requirements are delivered Ability to work independently and manage own time Ability to maintain good working relationships with various internal and external stakeholders   It’s a bonus if you have but not essential Experience in technical application management and support Knowledge of Finance, Regulatory and Treasury reporting and analytics platforms Experience of working with Databases and Servers, including Windows or RHEL OS platforms, with an understanding of patching processes and automation options Experience of working with Jira as a workflow tool Red Hot Rewards Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more. Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​.  20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.  Market-leading pension. Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance. Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.  And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one. Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you. Say hello to Virgin Money We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.  Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.   As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.  Now the legal bit Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks