Data Engineering Lead

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Data Engineering Lead

SALARY: £92,701 - £109,060

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: We adopt hybrid working style which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.

About this opportunity
Consumer Servicing & Engagement (CS&E) Platform delivers a unified digital servicing proposition for personal customers on the device of their choosing, giving the best digital customer experience to increase engagement and options for self-service.

We build deeper and more trusted relationships with our customers and support them to improve their financial lives by offering valuable, engaging and human-like digital banking experiences.  We grow customer satisfaction and trust through simple, helpful and personalised experiences that they love.

We provide and guide customers to complete and easy-to-use self-serve offerings where they can do (almost) everything they want within digital.  We deepen valued customer relationships, helping them build financial resilience, by understanding what they need and when.

What you’ll do…

• Act as a technical data lead within Engagement platform

• Work with various engineering teams to deliver group level data programs

• Propose and coach teams to follow industry best practices as well as help them align to the group's data strategy

• Create data strategy along with other data architects and help engineering teams implement them in individual labs

• Work with various engineering teams to deliver proof of concepts to create new cloud native data patterns for wider adoption

• Own and continually improve upon our current data estate to simplify it and reduce cost in the process.

• Be aware of financial industry level data classification and work with various business and technology teams to adopt them

• Represent CS&E in various data forums

• Run CS&E data working group along with lead architects, CTO, business function and other stakeholders

Why Lloyds Banking Group.

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not 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:

• Hands-on proven experience of delivering systems design, software development, testing and operational stability.

• Proven experience and knowledge of automation and CI/CD

• Proficiency in relevant programming languages, frameworks, and technologies, such as Python, PL/SQL

• Experience in working with large-scale data sets, data pipelines, and cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud

• Experience in using distributed systems and event driven architecture

• Experience of containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS

• Strong experience working with Kafka technologies

• Experience in running Data architecture working groups where deliveries are happening external to immediate team

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Certification in GCP “Cloud Architect”, “Cloud Developer”, “Professional Data Engineer”

• Experience in data analysis

• Experience in data modelling

• Experience in data estate and technology simplification

• Proficiency across the data lifecycle management

• Experience of hiring and recognising and emerging talent

• Knowledge of Agile and SAFE principles

About working for us 

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

 We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:  

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%. 

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance. 

• Share schemes including free shares. 

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

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top 

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies. 

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today. 

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.