Senior Data Engineer

Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Data Engineer

SALARY: The salary banding is £70,929 - £78,810

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 for a Senior Data Engineer 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 Senior Data Engineer you’ll be expected to have a range of skills to ensure efficient solutions can be delivered at pace.

Inevitably you’ll have strong SQL skills combined with a good appreciation of dataframe-based technologies (either Spark or Pandas). These skills will be combined with strong software engineering skills too; using at least Python and Java or C, combined with AI coding tools such as CoPilot. A DevOps attitude in an environment of Agile methodologies, performing data warehousing on a Cloud platform would be anticipated too.

Additional skills that are desirable would include experience of optimisation (data, storage or process) and impacts of solution architecture on this; understanding and use of Data modelling and design and ideally development and use of micro service based solutions.

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

Data Engineering – SQL, Dataframes (Spark/Pandas)

DevOps – CI/CD use

Software Engineering – Python & Java/C

Use of AI – Pair Programming/Testing

Quality Engineering and testing

Data Warehousing (ideally Cloud-based)

Nice to have Skills

Data Optimisation

Architecture

Data Modelling & Design

Micro Services architecture

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.

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.