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Our values
Bold
Having the courage to challenge the status quo and confidence to pursue ambitious goals.
Resilient
Facing into challenges with unwavering determination, and maintaining a positive outlook.
Agile
Embracing change with flexibility and speed, and continuously improving our processes.
Visionary
Inspire innovation and lead with foresight.
Empowering
Foster a culture of trust, support and accountability, enabling others to reach their full potential.
A career at Alba
At Alba we will do the best for our customers by acting with integrity, due care, skill and diligence, by being open and cooperative at all times and keeping our customers' best interests at heart.
We have a clear set of values and associated behaviours that set the tone for our culture, which create and sustain a great place to work.
Our values are the heartbeat of our team, they reflect what we stand for, they give us a sense of responsibility. Every single thing we do should be aligned with the values, and we are all accountable for those decisions/actions by asking a simple question: does this decision reflect our values?
What you can expect to receive
Competitive benchmarked salary
Private medical insurance
Generous holiday allowance
Death-in-service insurance
Income protection
Current vacancies
Location: East Kilbride
Team: Operations
Type: Full-time
Salary: £28,000
At Alba, we’re building something special — a modern bank with a human touch. Our mission is to enable people, business and communities to flourish – and we need a brilliant team to do this!
We’re on the lookout for a Customer Experience Executive who’s passionate about people, thrives on great conversations, and wants to help shape the future of banking.
This is a unique opportunity to join a start-up environment. You’ll be the first point of contact for our customers, guiding them through savings and lending journeys with warmth, clarity, and confidence.
What you'll do:
- Be the friendly face (and voice!) of Alba across multiple channels
- Build relationships with customers, brokers, lawyers, and accountants
- Become a product expert in our savings and lending offerings
- Spot opportunities to improve customer journeys and outcomes
What you'll bring:
- 1+ year experience in customer service or success
- Great communication skills - we love real conversations, not scripts
- Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail
- Confidence using MS Office tools (Word, Outlook, SharePoint)
Why you'll love it here:
- £28,000 salary
- 34 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance & income protection
- 6% employer pension contribution
- A chance to grow in a fast-moving, inclusive start-up culture
Sound like your kind of role? We can't wait to hear from you!
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay
- Transport links
🚀 We're Hiring: Head of Business Development
📍 East Kilbride (Onsite with flex) | 🕒 Full-time / 35 hours per week
At Alba, we’re building something special - a modern bank with a human touch. Our mission is to enable people, business and communities to flourish - and we need a team of brilliant colleagues to make that happen.
We are now seeking an exceptional Head of Business Development to take full ownership of our origination strategy and play a pivotal role in shaping the next phase of our growth.
This is more than a leadership role, it is an opportunity to build and scale a high-performing lending team, influence strategy at the highest level, and deliver meaningful commercial impact in a fast-growing, new entrant challenger environment.
You will have direct accountability for loan book growth, income generation, and market entry / expansion, working closely with the executive team to define and execute our commercial strategy.
What you'll do:
- Own and deliver the Bank’s business development strategy, with accountability for sustainable lending growth, income generation, and portfolio quality
- Drive material expansion of the loan book, identifying and executing opportunities across key sectors and channels
- Build, lead and scale a high-performing, geographically-aligned BD team, setting clear performance expectations and coaching for success
- Develop and execute a clear go-to-market strategy, including broker, intermediary and direct channels
- Act as a senior commercial leader, contributing to broader strategic decisions including product development, pricing, and risk appetite
- Establish strong market presence and credibility, acting as a senior ambassador for Alba with brokers, partners, and key clients
- Work in close partnership with Credit, Risk, Product and Operations to deliver a compelling and scalable customer proposition
- Embed robust performance management, pipeline discipline, and data-led decision making across the BD function
- Identify and unlock new markets, segments, and strategic partnerships to accelerate growth
- Ensure a strong focus on returns, cost discipline, and operational efficiency as the business scales
- Be a role model leader of our Alba Values and the Alba ways of working
What you'll bring:
- A proven track record of originating and delivering significant lending growth, with clear personal accountability for commercial outcomes
- Deep experience in commercial lending, ideally within a challenger, specialist, or high-growth banking environment
- Demonstrated success in building, leading, and scaling high-performing teams
- Strong strategic capability, with the ability to translate vision into execution and deliver measurable results
- Experience developing and executing go-to-market strategies across broker/intermediary and/or direct channels
- Commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to assess opportunities, optimise returns, and manage portfolio performance
- A track record of challenging conventional approaches and driving innovation in lending or customer strategy
- A hands-on, outcomes-focused mindset, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Why you'll love it here:
- Highly-competitive salary (DOE)
- 37 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance & income protection
- 9% employer pension contribution
- Bonus scheme
- Have a direct impact on the success and trajectory of the business
- Be part of a leadership team committed to creating a modern, scalable and customer-focused lending bank
👉 Interested? Let's talk.
🚀 We're Hiring: Senior QA Engineer
📍 East Kilbride (Onsite with flex) | 🕒 Full-time / 35 hours per week | 💰 Highly competitive
At Alba, we’re building something special - a modern bank with a human touch. Our mission is to enable people, business and communities to flourish - and we need a team of brilliant colleagues to make that happen.
We’re looking for a Senior QA Engineer to play a key role in ensuring the quality, performance, and reliability of our technology.
In this role, you’ll help shape and enhance our testing approach, drive automation, and work closely with engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable banking solutions in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
What you'll do:
- Collaborate with engineers to define testing strategies, requirements, and best practices
- Manage test data, cases, and scripts across functional, regression, and performance testing
- Ensure robust integration and end-to-end testing across systems
- Drive test automation frameworks and ensure effective execution of automated tests
- Troubleshoot issues in test environments and support timely resolution
- Continuously improve testing processes, tools, and quality standards
- Stay up to date with emerging QA tools and technologies
What you'll bring:
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Proven experience in software testing (ideally within financial services or tech)
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Strong experience with automation tools (e.g. Selenium, JUnit, TestNG)
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Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control (e.g. Git)
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Experience with performance and load testing tools
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Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
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Experience working in Agile environments
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A proactive, collaborative, and results-driven mindset
Why you'll love it here:
- Highly-competitive salary (DOE)
- 37 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance & income protection
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Bonus scheme
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Opportunity to shape QA practices in a growing digital bank
👉 Interested? Let's talk.
🚀 We're Hiring: Senior Software Engineer
📍 East Kilbride (Onsite with flex) | 🕒 Full-time / 35 hours per week | 💰 Highly competitive
At Alba, we’re building something special - a modern bank with a human touch. Our mission is to enable people, business and communities to flourish - and we need a team of brilliant colleagues to make that happen.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our small, high-impact engineering team.
You’ll play a key role in designing and building modern banking applications, contributing to architecture decisions, and helping shape the future of our technology as we scale.
What you'll do:
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Design, build, and optimise secure, scalable banking applications using Java, Python, JavaScript, and Azure
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Develop microservices and APIs to support our fintech platform
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Design and maintain cloud-based services on Microsoft Azure
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Collaborate closely with engineers, product, and business teams
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Take ownership of system architecture, performance, and security best practices
- Contribute to innovation, technical direction, and continuous improvement
- Mentor team members and share knowledge to drive technical excellence
What you'll bring:
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5+ years’ experience in software engineering (ideally fintech or banking)
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Strong skills in Java, Python, JavaScript, and Azure cloud development
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Experience with microservices, APIs, and DevOps practices
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Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
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Ability to thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced, start-up environment
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Passion for building secure, scalable, customer-focused technology
Why you'll love it here:
- Highly-competitive salary (DOE)
- 37 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance & income protection
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Bonus scheme
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You'll work in a small team where your ideas shape the future of the bank
👉 Interested? Let's talk.
🚀 We're Hiring: Data Analyst
📍 East Kilbride (Onsite with flex) | 🕒 Full-time / 35 hours per week | 💰 Highly competitive
At Alba, we’re building something special - a modern bank with a human touch. Our mission is to enable people, business and communities to flourish - and we need a team of brilliant colleagues to make that happen.
We’re looking for a Data Analyst to help shape and deliver high-quality management information (MI) and insights across the bank.
You’ll play a key role in developing robust, trusted reporting, working closely with stakeholders to turn data into meaningful insights that drive better decision-making in a fast-paced, regulated environment.
What you'll do:
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Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports from data sourcing through to insight delivery
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Build and optimise data models to ensure performance, scalability, and usability
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Collaborate closely with stakeholders across product, engineering, risk, finance, and operations
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Ensure data accuracy, governance, and consistency across reporting outputs
- Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through data analysis
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Improve reporting efficiency through automation and best practice
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Support data literacy and promote a data-driven culture across the organisation
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years’ experience in data analysis or MI (ideally regulated environments)
- Strong Power BI skills (data modelling, DAX, Power Query, dashboards)
- Solid SQL and experience with multiple data sources
- Good understanding of data governance, quality, and security
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail
- Able to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights
- Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable in a small team
Why you'll love it here:
- Highly-competitive salary (DOE)
- 37 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance & income protection
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Bonus scheme
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A chance to shape how data drives decision-making in a growing bank
👉 Interested? Let's talk.
Salesforce Engineer (Salesforce / nCino)
🚀 We're Hiring: Salesforce Engineer (nCino)
📍 East Kilbride (Onsite with flex) | 🕒 Full-time / 35 hours per week | 💰 Highly competitive
At Alba, we’re building something special - a modern bank with a human touch. Our mission is to enable people, business and communities to flourish - and we need a team of brilliant colleagues to make that happen.
What you'll do:
- Design, build and customise Salesforce and nCino solutions supporting lending, onboarding and core banking journeys.
- Develop scalable, maintainable solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows and configuration-first approaches.
- Deliver integrations between Salesforce, nCino and external platforms using APIs, middleware and event-driven architecture.
- Support platform security, compliance and governance, ensuring solutions meet financial services and regulatory requirements
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, release management, source control and Salesforce DX practices.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Business Analysis, QA and Engineering colleagues to deliver exceptional customer and colleague experiences.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to optimise workflows, enhance user experience and improve delivery efficiency.
What you'll bring:
- 2+ years’ software engineering experience with strong Salesforce expertise
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Strong Salesforce skills including Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows and platform configuration
- Experience with integrations, APIs, middleware, and data migration
- Understanding of Salesforce DevOps (CI/CD, Git, Salesforce DX)
- Strong knowledge of data models, security, and performance optimisation
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Experience in banking, fintech or other regulated industries would be advantageous
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
Why you'll love it here:
- Highly-competitive salary (DOE)
- 37 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance & income protection
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Bonus scheme
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A true opportunity to shape a critical platform at the heart of a growing digital bank
👉 Interested? Let's talk.
🚀 We're Hiring: Finance Assistant
📍 East Kilbride (Onsite with flex) | 🕒 Full-time / 35 hours per week | 💰 £28,000 – £30,000 + benefits (DOE)
At Alba, we’re building something special - a modern bank with a human touch. Our mission is to enable people, businesses and communities to flourish - and we need a team of brilliant colleagues to make that happen.
We’re looking for a Finance Assistant to support our Financial Controller and help build a strong financial control environment as we continue to grow.
You’ll play a key role in day-to-day finance operations, supporting everything from accounts payable to month-end reporting, while working as part of a collaborative and high-performing team.
What you'll do:
- Process invoices and employee expense claims in line with policy
- Manage weekly supplier payment runs
- Set up new suppliers and maintain accurate records
- Perform daily and monthly bank reconciliations
- Support month-end processes, including accruals and prepayments
- Assist in the preparation of management accounts
- Support supplier onboarding and finance control processes
- Take ownership of tasks and contribute to continuous improvement within Finance
What you'll bring:
- Experience in a Finance Assistant or similar role (1 year+)
- Strong knowledge of accounts payable, bank reconciliations, and month-end processes
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to manage workload and take ownership of deliverables
- Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders
- A proactive, 'can-do' attitude and team-focused mindset
- Experience in financial services or regulated environments (desirable)
- Finance-related degree (desirable)
Why you'll love it here:
- Highly-competitive salary (DOE)
- 34 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance & income protection
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Bonus scheme
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A chance to play a key role in building a new bank
👉 Interested? Let's talk.
🚀 We're Hiring: Senior Credit Underwriter
📍 East Kilbride (Onsite with flex) | 🕒 Full-time / 35 hours per week | 💰 Highly competitive
At Alba, we’re building something special - a modern bank with a human touch. Our mission is to enable people, businesses and communities to flourish - and we need brilliant people to make that happen.
We’re looking for a Senior Credit Underwriter to join our Risk team, supporting high-quality credit decisions and helping shape our growing lending portfolio.
What you'll do:
- Underwrite new and renewal lending within delegated authority
- Structure and assess deals across commercial real estate, buy-to-let, and trading businesses
- Partner with Business Development teams early to shape deals
- Present cases at Deal Forums and Credit Committee (TCC)
- Provide clear recommendations and feedback on submissions
- Monitor portfolio risk, identifying early warning signs and taking action
- Support customers in financial difficulty and manage covenant issues
- Contribute to credit strategy, risk appetite, and policy
- Coach and support junior team members
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years’ commercial / SME underwriting experience in financial services
- Strong experience across CRE, BTL, and trading business lending
- Excellent financial analysis and credit judgement skills
- Strong understanding of risk, regulation, and lending frameworks
- Confidence to make and stand by credit decisions
- Strong communication and stakeholder skills, including presenting
- Proactive, resilient, and able to operate in a fast-paced environment
Desirable:
- Credit committee experience
- Knowledge of early warning indicators and recovery strategies
- Advanced Excel / PowerPoint skills
Why you'll love it here:
- Highly competitive salary (DOE)
- 37 days annual leave (incl. bank holidays)
- Private health insurance
- Life assurance & income protection
- 6% employer pension contribution
- Bonus scheme
- Opportunity to shape a growing digital bank
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