Senior Data Engineer

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

About this opportunity

This role sits within our Customer Data Services Platform and we're the team that looks after the customer data for the whole of Lloyds Banking Group. Our mission is to make this data available for the right purpose with the appropriate confidentiality and always ensuring a phenomenal engineering experience based on performance, resilience, and integrity.

The systems we support underpin almost everything we do as Lloyds Banking Group. We maintain these systems with the highest standard, with an ambition to take ownership of the operational support 24/7 using SRE principles.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building and optimising data pipelines and architectures that enable data-driven insights and decision making across the organisation. You will work primarily within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem, leveraging tools such as BigQuery, DBT (Data Build Tool), Apache Kafka, and SQL to design and maintain reliable and scalable data infrastructure, adhering to LBG's Agile processes.

You will collaborate closely with data analysts and other engineering teams to ensure data is efficiently collected, processed, and made available for analysis, ensuring high performance and reliability in a cloud-based environment.

What you'll need

You are technically minded and skilled with large datasets. You have developed a project from inception to production and understand the value of well-tested software and production feedback.

We're looking for data engineers that can ask penetrating questions, design and communicate robust solutions, develop in short iterative cycles following XP practices, whilst championing excellence, inclusivity, and sustainability.

You are prepared to join an existing development team, pick up fast with the goal of becoming a strong member of the team, able to mentor peers and collaborate with stakeholders.

More specifically, we'd like you to have much of the following, but it's ok if you don't check every box:

1. SQL Querying - Write complex and efficient SQL queries
2. Design, develop, and maintain models, pipelines and transformations with GCP services (BigQuery, Dataflow, DBT, Cloud Storage etc.) and Apache Kafka Connect.
3. Good at scripting in SQL, Bash, Python, Terraform, Java, etc.
4. Fluent with source control tools like Git + GitHub
5. Built automated regression tests, integrated with CI/CD, that validate the requirements are met e.g. Cucumber.
6. Good understanding of architecture/systems thinking with cloud native principles
7. Proactive at using metrics to inform performance optimisations.
8. Able to listen, reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion appropriately.
9. Passionate about driving a modern and inclusive working culture
10. A growth mindset, happy to share what is known and absorb what is new.

About working for us

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 under-represented groups.

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

1. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
2. An annual performance-related bonus
3. Share schemes including free shares
4. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
5. Generous holiday allowance, with bank holidays on top
6. 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.

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.