Senior Data Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group
Bristol
2 weeks ago
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Working pattern

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

About this opportunity

A great opportunity has arisen for a Senior Data Engineer to work within our Segments & Propositions Platform to join product engineering cross functional teams. As a Senior Data Engineer your responsibilities will be delivering the highest quality data capability, drawing upon your engineering expertise, whilst being open minded to the opportunities the cloud provides.

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you\'ll be doing
  • Building reusable data pipelines at scale, work with structured and unstructured data, and feature engineering for machine learning or curate data to provide real time contextualise insights to power our customers journeys.
  • Using industry leading toolsets, as well as evaluating exciting new technologies to design and build scalable real time data applications.
  • Spanning the full data lifecycle and experience using mix of modern and traditional data platforms (e.g. Hadoop, Kafka, GCP, Azure, Teradata, SQL server) you\'ll get to work building capabilities with horizon-expanding exposure to a host of wider technologies and careers in data.
  • Helping in adopting best engineering practices like Test Driven Development, code reviews, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery etc for data pipelines.
  • Mentoring other engineers to deliver high quality and data led solutions for our Bank's customers
Why Lloyds Banking Group

We\'re on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we\'re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you\'ll need

Coding:

  • Coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (Python, Java, Scala or Go and SQL).

Databases & frameworks:

  • Working experience with operational data stores, data warehouse, big data technologies and data lakes.
  • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases to build data solutions, such as SQL Server/Oracle, experience with relational and dimensional data structures.
  • Experience in using distributed frameworks (Spark, Flink, Beam, Hadoop)
  • Strong experience working with Kafka technologies

Containerisation:

  • Good knowledge of containers (Docker, Kubernetes etc)

Cloud:

  • Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure or AWS.
  • Good understating of cloud storage, networking and resource provisioning

And any experience of these would be really useful:

  • Certification in GCP "Professional Data Engineer"
  • Certification in Apache Kafka (CCDAK)
  • Proficiency across the data lifecycle
About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we\'re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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!


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