Middleware Engineer

What is the opportunity

We are looking for a Middleware Engineer to join our UK IT Engineering & Delivery team within Enterprise Services. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in delivering and supporting critical mortgage technology platforms used across the Bank.

You will help design, build and implement integration solutions that support mortgage origination and servicing applications, working alongside a highly skilled team of engineers and technical specialists. If you enjoy solving sophisticated technical challenges and contributing to large-scale projects, this role offers excellent opportunities to grow your expertise and make a real impact.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, develop and support integration solutions using Axway and JBoss technologies in a Linux environment, helping to deliver key mortgage platform projects.
• Provision and maintain development and test environments, including supporting build automation and deployment activities.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, development teams and third-party suppliers to deliver project milestones and resolve technical challenges.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies and improvement opportunities while helping to implement secure, scalable and future‑focused solutions.
• Support production implementations, provide project updates and offer technical guidance for complex incidents when required.

What will make you stand out? You will be someone who enjoys working in a collaborative environment and takes ownership of delivering solutions that make a difference. Strong organisational skills, the ability to handle opposing priorities and a proactive approach to problem‑solving will help you succeed in this role.

You Will Also Have

• Strong technical expertise in Axway or JBoss, ideally both, within a Linux environment.
• Experience of Bash scripting and build automation.
• Proven experience in an application development or middleware engineering role.
• Strong Agile delivery experience, including tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• The ability to work independently while also contributing positively within cross‑functional teams.

Experience with the following will help you stand out but is not required to apply for this role:

• Python development.
• Oracle databases and Oracle middleware technologies.
• DevOps practices and tooling.

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More About The Team

Enterprise Services brings together Group IT & Procurement, Group Change, Enterprise Portfolio Office, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Simplification, Group Payments & Business Continuity Management, Group Data & Analytics Office, Group Information Security and GTCS Risk & Compliance.

The UK IT Engineering & Delivery team is responsible for the end‑to‑end delivery and support of a broad range of mortgage applications. The team guides across integration architecture, application delivery, security, platform tooling and operational support. Working closely with colleagues and strategic partners, we deliver secure, scalable technology that supports customers, colleagues and communities to thrive.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily in Bristol. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support collaboration and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

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Why work with us

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with a commitment to hybrid working, along with 24 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions.

Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy along with working parent and carer supports.

Your health and wellbeing is important to us; we offer a substantial health insurance contribution, Employee Assistance Programme, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches.

We also encourage and support colleagues to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career.

We support flexible working opportunities and are committed to helping colleagues balance their work and personal commitments wherever possible.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - Self
• Better together - Self
• Be Decisive - Self
• Take Ownership - Self
• Manage Risk - Self

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

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