Data Engineer

JOB TITLE: Data Engineer

SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100 per annum

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 one of our office sites.

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• Contribute to feature development within teams across technology domains in areas of ambiguity, complexity and criticality to build flexible software solutions without over-engineering.
  
• Engineering data products that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable and secure. Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt and adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release.
  
• Participate in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, escalate impediments, manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and demonstrate successes.
  
• Enable the team's effectiveness to advance by leading design discussions, creating a shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participating in code reviews, looking for reuse whilst being mindful of dependencies, finding opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and setting appropriate team development practices.
  
• Partner with peers and senior software engineers to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery and rollout of the technical roadmap. Promote common solutions and foster reuse to avoid complexity and duplicative waste. Seek to adopt the group’s tooling capabilities as these mature to access gains through automation in relation to pace, quality and safety.
  
• Promote active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings. Elevate the security, maintenance and resilience posture to foster investment in compliance findings, wastage, risks and gaps.
  
• Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, and by expanding your own skills – promoting a true Learning Culture by your own actions.
  

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• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  
• Effective collaboration and communication skills, able to work and influence across functional boundaries.
  
• A passion for learning, coaching, developing & motivating colleagues.
  
• Exposure to engineering delivery.
  
• Experience working effectively within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contributing to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitment.
  
• Experience with data tools, systems and techniques to collect, store, validate, extract, transform, and load data.
  
• Understanding of value of data in decision making and ability to independently perform semi-advanced analysis to put data into context.
  
• Experience with assurance of data accuracy and consistency.
  
• Experience with Database Management including schema, performance and data integrity.
  
• Experience with data visualisation tools.
  
• Strong understanding of data modelling concepts and techniques for structured and unstructured data.
  

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• Experience with Azure and Kafka
  
• Financial Services industry experience
  

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. We especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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• 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
  
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
  
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
  

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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. We’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited 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.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Information Technology