Lloyds Banking Group

We are the largest UK retail and commercial financial services provider, with 26 million customers and a leading digital presence.

End Date: Sunday 12 January 2025

Salary Range: £100,657 - £183,551

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options.

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Principal Data Engineer

LOCATION: London

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: We adopt hybrid working style which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London office.

About this opportunity: Join our Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform as a Principal Data Engineer. You'll work within multi-functional product engineering teams to deliver top-quality data capabilities, demonstrating your engineering expertise and cloud opportunities.

In this role, you'll lead the design, implementation, and delivery of scalable, resilient, low-latency systems. You'll collaborate with engineering leadership and stakeholders to define and implement the data engineering roadmap. You'll drive technical strategy and best practices, deliver technical solutions for multiple entities within the group, and foster a culture of secure, high-quality data pipelines. Additionally, you'll automate processes to eliminate recurring issues and mentor and coach engineering teams.

We are committed to transforming our Group and shaping finance for good, investing in technologies, workplaces, and colleagues. If you have coding or scripting experience with a data engineering background, we want to hear from you!

What you’ll need:

• Extensive industry experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems and large-scale data processing systems in production with a proven track record.
• Proven experience and knowledge of automation and CI/CD.
• Best practice coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, SQL, Java, Scala or Go).
• Strong working experience with operational data stores, data warehouse, big data technologies and data lakes.
• Experience in using distributed frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop).
• Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes etc) and experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS.
• Strong experience working with Kafka technologies.
• Clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, design patterns and core programming concepts.
• Good understanding of cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Certification in GCP “Cloud Architect”, “Cloud Developer”, “Professional Data Engineer”.
• Certification in Apache Kafka (CCDAK).

Benefits

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!

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'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.

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