BI Platform Engineer

JOB TITLE: BI Platform Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

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

About this opportunity

Join our Analytics & AI Platform, the hub for enabling Analytics & AI within the organisation. This role sits within the Business Intelligence as a Service (BIaaS) lab, an enablement function focused on delivering our vision for the future of BI.

The keyword being "Enablement", therefore this role is NOT about developing BI Dashboards, Visualisations / Reports / Analytics, but about BI Platform Engineering which includes the Design, Build, Implementation, Scale-Out and Support of our strategic BI Applications and their related Products, Features, End-to-End Patterns/Blueprints, Best Practices, Ways of Working and Operating Models for success.

You must therefore be able to demonstrate experience of working closely with teams like Networking, Security, Architecture, Cloud Services and more; including a solid know-how of Software Engineering Principles and related common challenges, in order to deliver on our vision for the future of our BI Products and Services.

You’ll work in a Feature Team within the BIaaS lab, together with a Product Owner and other multi-skilled Engineers, with a clear Vision, Key Results and Objectives ranging across the Build, Maturity and Support of:

• Connectivity between our BI Applications and various on-premise and cloud data sources.

• Self-Service capabilities to all BI personas.

• Conversational Analytics through Natural Language Query interfaces.

• Data Agents for BI 

• BI Marketplace

• BI Semantic / Knowledge Layer

• Simplifying our BI Estate.

About the Team

We're a dynamic and diverse lab, with a reputation of delivery at pace, innovating and challenging the status quo. The lab consists of multiple Feature Teams spread across three locations, committed to fostering Collaboration, Psychological Safety, Accountability, Healthy Conflict, Commitment, and a deep attention to our Vision and Objectives. Our BI Products aim to unlock the potential of our rich data through innovative Self-Serve solutions - a "BI Marketplace" (think Amazon for BI). We build, scale, maintain, and monitor capabilities within our strategic BI Platforms while evaluating and developing innovative future offerings (think ChatGPT for BI). We're embarking on building a Semantic / Knowledge Layer to enable a single source of truth and to power Conversational BI. We'll also be building BI Simplification capabilities (think BI Model/Metadata Accelerators).

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What you’ll need

• Skilled in Cloud BI Platforms like PowerBI and Looker.

• Relevant Cloud certification or can demonstrate platform engineering skills related to PowerBI, Fabric, Looker or GCP.

• Preferably, you have hands-on experience with Cloud Curation components for PowerBI and/or Looker (e.g. Terraform, IAM, Harness, K8S, DNS Configuration, TLS certificates, Load balancers, etc.)

• Comfortable engaging in platform design, remediation, or problem-solving discussions with other relevant enablement functions like Architecture, Networking, Security, etc.

• Passion for the BI domain with an eye for innovation.

• Strong grasp of Software Development Principles, Route-to-Live for BI Content and BI Platform development.

• Knowledge of golden paths for end-to-end BI Data Patterns.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences and demonstrate a restless curiosity while actively investigating new approaches.

• You balance being Customer-focused and Platform-focused - by meeting the needs of Customers and Product Owners, while focusing on Platform performance, reuse, and minimising technical debt.

If you don't have all of the above but can demonstrate a solid grasp of complex technical patterns with an aptitude for problem-solving, and can produce simple and effective solutions - we'd welcome your application.

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 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