Lead Data Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead Data Engineer

SALARY: The salary banding is £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION: Chester or Manchester

HOURS: 35 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 one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity to join our Consumer Lending team! You'll play a pivotal role in crafting and implementing data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) collaborating with multi-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of data products into our new data architecture, driving innovation and optimising data utilisation.

What will I be doing?

As a Lead Data Engineer, you’ll be expected to show not only excellent technical skills, but demonstrate key leadership traits. These will include critical thinking and thought leadership on a range of topics and you’ll demonstrate qualities to effectively communicate these ideas to others. At the same time acting, supporting and providing strategic solutions and decisions is a cornerstone of a role at this level.

Strong data and software engineering are necessary at this level; not only SQL and dataframe technologies but understanding the architecture and standard methodologies around effectively employing big data solutions for Cloud based data warehouses.

Appreciation of the impacts of data modelling to take advantage of the traits of each framework would be expected too. Traditional programming languages such as Python and Java are expected to be enhanced with use of modern takes on standard methodologies, such as Golang, Zig or Rust. A strong appreciation of FinOps and appropriate skills to optimise both new and existing software and data deployments are critical also.

Finally, an approach that embeds the best of DevOps and appropriate CI/CD tooling to provide effective, reliable and timely deployments would be second nature for the correct candidate.

At this level a wide range of additional skills would be expected, though some worth particular mention would be data management and governance, risk controls and frameworks, and experience across a diverse range of different work settings.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Critical Thinking & Strategic Decisioning

• Thought Leadership & Solution Design

• Data Engineering – SQL, Spark

• DevOps – CI/CD Pipeline creation

• Software Engineering – Python, Java/Scala, (ideally Golang or Rust)

• Data Optimisation / Architecture

• Google Cloud Platform

• AI strategies

• Quality Engineering and testing

• Data Modelling and Design

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

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

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance related bonus

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.