Technology Consultant

Business Unit: Products & Channels
Salary range:per annum DOE redhot benefits
Location: UK Hybrid with travel to our Glasgow Hub when required.
Contract type: Permanent

Live to inspire change. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team

Web Development (Secure Sites) is responsible for the modernisation and digitisation of customer and staff experiences using a wide range of Web technologies. Our systems are designed to be accessible efficient & engaging across several platforms: Desktop Mobile & Tablet.

What youll be doing

• Assess & estimate new work requests covering multiple systems and subsystems.
• Build & enhance features within new & existing projects complete with unit & automation tests achieving effective code coverage.
• Create & control contributions to semantically versioned common code libraries.
• Deploy applications using continuous integration & deployment systems including the configuration & administration of these systems.
• Educate & coach more junior members of the team during pair programming code reviews and within structured teaching sessions.
• Fix bugs & identity source documenting both causes & solutions to reduce reoccurrence and enhance colleague awareness.
• Generate & implement new development approaches & architectural innovations.
• Help with production releases & incident responses across areas occasionally out of hours.
• Improve optimise & modernise our tech stack leveraging your previous experience to reduce tech debt & promote positive patterns!

We need you to have

• An extensive and successful proven track record in a Senior Developer role with SME experience programming large scale applications using Typescript.
• SME development experience of single page Web applications frameworks (e.g. React or alternatives: Angular Vue Svelte SolidJS).
• Demonstrable experience of developing unit integration & automation tests using JS Web test frameworks (e.g. Vitest/Jest Playwright/Cypress).
• In depth experience of communicating with Microservice REST APIs and a deep understanding of Networking/HTTP protocols.
• Protecting against potential security vulnerabilities and familiarity with best practice (e.g. OWASP).
• Extensive experience educating & enforcing best practice software development principles e.g. DRY KISS SOLID.

Its a bonus if you have but not essential

• Cloud based development & hosting e.g. Azure AWS GCP Serverless Computing.
• Developer tools programming using efficient frameworks & languages e.g. Bun Deno Rust.
• Financial Industry regulations structures & services.

And theres no waiting around youll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this roleIf were lucky to receive a lot of interest we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

Were all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
Were making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UKs best digital bank. As a fullservice digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years were a workforce to be reckoned with. Were putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in peoples lives. Were customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose Making You Happier About Money. Our customer centric culture means that were able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. 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. Were committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader were committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application contact our Talent Acquisition team

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 well need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If youre 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 preemployment checks well ask for six years of regulatory references and once in the role youll be subject to periodic employment checks.