Data Engineering Lead

lloyds banking group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution seeks a Data Engineering Lead in Bristol. The role involves leading data engineering initiatives, mentoring teams, and collaborating on innovative solutions. Candidates should have over 15 years of industry experience in distributed systems and a strong background in automation and cloud technologies. This position offers a hybrid working pattern and a generous benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• 15+ years of industry experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems.
• 5+ years mentoring and coaching engineering teams.
• Proven experience of best practice coding in a commercial setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and delivery of scalable systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define data engineering roadmap.
• Mentor and coach engineering teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Large-scale data processing

Automation

CI/CD

Python

SQL

Java

Scala

Go

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Spark

Flink

Beam

Hadoop

GCP

Azure

AWS

Job description

Job Description Summary

JOB TITLE: Data Engineering Lead

LOCATION: Bristol, London

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

Join cross-functional product engineering teams to play a key role in delivering high-quality data capabilities. This opportunity sits within the Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform, where we’re focused on building innovative, data-driven solutions that enhance customer experiences.

As a Data Engineering Lead, you’ll bring deep technical expertise and a passion for engineering excellence. You’ll lead by example, championing best practices and exploring the possibilities offered by modern cloud technologies.

We understand that no one is an expert in every aspect of data or software engineering. If you have a background in data engineering and experience with coding or scripting, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead end-to-end design, implementation and delivery of future architecture for highly scalable, resilient low latency systems
• Collaborate with the head of engineering, product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to define and execute the data engineering teams’ roadmap, scope, and deliverables.
• Lead engineering best practices
• Drive technical strategy and direction for engineering team
• Deliver technical solutions that can be leveraged across multiple entities across the group.
• Drive the culture of delivering highly secured and high-quality pipelines.
• Identify and eliminate recurring issues by automating processes.
• Have cross-functional and cross-product impact in the organisation
• Initiate, design and drive high impact ideas using the right design principles
• Mentor and coach engineering teams, developing their skills and career growth.

What you’ll need

• 15+ years of industry experience in designing, building and supporting distributed systems and large-scale data processing systems in production with a proven track record
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience mentoring and coaching engineering teams, with a strong track record of supporting skill development and career growth.
• 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).
• Extensive experience working with operational data stores, data warehouse, large-scale 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

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t 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.

About working for us

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 under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

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

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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.