Senior Data Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Data Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS:  Full time 

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Leeds office location 

About this opportunity 

Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting journey and there is no better a time to join us. The investments we are making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects; fresh possibilities have provided new ways for our people to work, learn and thrive.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a team delivering regulatory and technology change!

The Senior Data Engineer will collaborate with the Software Engineers, Risk Scientists, and Business SMEs and lead other Data Engineers to design, develop, integrate and test Data Product features on the product roadmaps to meet customer needs.

We're seeking curious engineers to work within our feature teams. You will support customers by ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.

We're looking for someone who wants to further develop their engineering skillset. We’ll support you to be able to be able to take on technical challenges and develop your understanding of how data solutions and services are developed, tested and implemented. If this excites you then you would be an asset to our team!

We are pioneering the transformation of current processes from our on-premises platforms and have started our journey in deploying solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. This role sits within our platforms Analytics Lab who are looking to create strategic data products and build data and analytics capability.

We work using agile delivery practices, so a self-led individual capable of accurately estimating and planning their own work would be valued highly.

What You’d Get Involved With:

• Design, develop, maintain and improve data processes to support regulatory and prudential change with high quality solutions and providing oversight and leadership to help others do the same.

• Building data products, pipelines and API’s for current and future analytics and reporting solutions

• Implement and exemplify engineering standards to act as a mentor to colleagues, using constructive feedback to create opportunities for learning.

• Work with the Product Owner and customers to understand, refine and prioritise items for the feature team backlog, using strong problem-solving skills and a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and clearly set-out the way forward.

• Strong Data Engineering background and good knowledge of waterfall and agile development practices.

 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 

• Passion for software and data engineering, adopting the mindset of a curious engineer

• A technical lead, who takes ownership of deliveries within a Feature Team and is willing to help grow and guide engineers to form successful teams.

• Experience with cloud technology for data solutions, particularly Google Cloud Platform

• Experience DBT, SQL, Python, Java or SAS and other open source technologies used in analytics is essential.

• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready solutions

• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non-technical people.

And any experience of these would be really useful 

• Insights into industry solutions for data management, storage, and analytics

• Experience of working within regulatory change would be advantageous, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes

• Experience of line management.

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.