Senior Data Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group
Manchester
1 month ago
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This range is provided by Lloyds Banking Group. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

  • 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

  • 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

  • Micro Services architecture

We’re committed to inclusivity. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We’re disability confident, and we can provide reasonable adjustments to our recruitment processes on request.

Benefits

  • 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.


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